For quite a while I’ve been asked if there was a way to pay for an ad that was created earlier, but then not completed. Until now the answer had been no, it has to be created and paid for all at the same time. This morning I added the ability to pay for an ad created earlier but not completed.
The 14 day time on the ad begins when it is paid for, not when it is created.
Free ads are the same as ever. I did not change anything with free ads.
Thanks,
Chris
One of the many advantages in posting changes here is that I get feedback telling me what works and what doesn’t. Thank you, Arny, for pointing out the fact that at some point in the past I managed to remove the quotes from the site altogether. I’ve located the bug that caused this, and fixed it. Unfortunately now I can hardly run a contest for people to notice the new ones because, well, they’re all effectively new. You still get $20 of advertising credit if I use a quote that you provide.
Thanks,
Chris
I hadn’t added any new quotes to the site in a while, so this morning I spent some time looking at a few and adding maybe 15 or 16 news ones. $5 in advertising credit if you can identify one of the new quotes. $20 in credit if you give me a quote that I end up adding to the website.
I’ve closed the credit offer, thanks to those who participated! — 2012-04-13 21:07
Thanks,
Chris
Happy New Year! I hope the new year brings good things to all of us.
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Chris
Merry Christmas!
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Chris
Merry Christmas, everyone! May God bless each and every one of you!
Today also happens to be the first day of winter, which is Yule for some of the pagan and wiccan traditions. For the rest of us, it means we’re finally going to start seeing more sunlight!
The FCC published some internet content regulations. For most of us, it isn’t fire and brimstone sort of regulations. They key point though, is that they are grabbing the authority for saying what is right and what is not.
Congress has refused several times to grant the FCC regulatory rights over the internet, so now it looks like they are going to just simply take it.
Sort of makes a fellow wonder how long it will be before your internet provider sells you “packages” of website that you can visit. Oh, sorry, that one isn’t in your package anymore, would you like to upgrade?
Thanks,
Chris
Fixed a couple of bugs in the code this morning. If you’ve got a bug that isn’t fixed, drop me a note, and make sure I am aware of it.
In other news, no one has succesfully guessed the year I graduated yet, though I’ve had a number of interesting guesses. Apparently no one believes I’m 18.
Thanks,
Chris
So I went to my first ever high school reunion on Saturday, November 27. It was an interesting event, more or less, which I wouldn’t have attended has not my wife and I graduated together, and she insisted that we go. Frankly I found it disturbing to discover not how many names I’d forgotten, but even once reminded of the name, I didn’t always remember having gone to school with the individual. I seemed to remember more of the people who also attended my grade school as well as my high school. To me, that doesn’t say good things about whether or not I really am reliving my childhood or not.
Free $10 worth of credit for Pennswoods.net Classifieds if you can tell me what year I graduated from high school. $100 if you can tell me the year and the mascot of the high school. Hint: This was not a 5 year reunion.
In completely unrelated news, today is also the Romanian equivalent of Independence Day, more or less. In 1918 the National Assembly of Romanians of Transylvania and Hungary convened in Alba Iulia (which is in Transylvania) and decreed “the unification of those Romanians and of all the territories inhabited by them with Romania.” They have a unification museum right there in Alba Iulia, celebrating Great Union Day.
So, every time you meet a romanian today, wish them “La multi ani” (Happy Birthday). I imagine that it sounds better in Romanian than “Happy 1st!”.
Thanks,
Chris
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone has a good, happy, healthy Thanksgiving holiday.
My own personal thanks goes out for my wife and children, good, gainful employment, and a loving God.
Best wishes to everyone,
Chris
Several changes have been made to how reports on ads are handled. In one direction, in order for an ad to be removed, the website not only needs to see that multiple people are reporting it, but that they agree on WHY it should be reported. In general this will make it more difficult for ads to be removed.
On the other hand, if an account DOES have ads removed, and if it is having the ads removed for a consistent reason, then even ads that have not been flagged will be pulled from the site. Thus while it is harder for anyone ad to be removed, it is now possible that removal of several ads will cause the removal of a number of related ads.
The report ad button is in the lower right of the ads. Paid ads are exempt from reporting.
In order to make things as simple as possible, I’ve removed the ‘spammer’ option from the report ad button. This makes it less likely that I’ll get a mix of “not relevant to category” and “ad is spam on 4+ categories” reports, and thus more likely that the ad will actually be pulled. Since a spam ads are going to get pulled from the site after a couple of them are pulled, I think this ends up working out in the end.
I’ve also combined the “rude / offensive” report label with “inappropriate / not family friendly” option. The same concept is at play there, since they were similar concepts, I didn’t want to avoid pulling an offensive ad because the reports against it were split between two different labels.
As side note, there is also an option for reporting an ad as “marked as sold”. Reporting the ad in this way DOES NOT HARM the poster of the ad. It provides feedback that the ad is completed and can be removed, but does not count against the person posting the ad in any way.
Thanks,
Chris