Quick survey: Do you see obnoxious livejournal ads?

[mattbell]

Hi all,

I've received several reports that people have to look at obnoxious ads when reading this blog or posting comments.

I don't see any ads.  I don't know if that's a function of me having a paid account or of firefox's foxy ad blocker.  However, the idea of me paying $25 a year to host a blog that's serving fullscreen ads to people who look at it just seems wrong.  

So please let me know if you see ads and whether you have no account, a free account, or a paid account. 

If this is annoying enough people, it might be time to finally move over to wordpress for public posting. 

Comments

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

No nested comments on WP? Lame. Lack of nesting is one of many reasons I don't like facebook as a blogging medium.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

To be fair to WP, they may have that feature. I've just never seen it in any blog hosted by WP. Ever.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Looks like nested comments work in most WP themes these days.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Really!?! I wonder why so many of the WP blogs I've read don't bother turning this feature on. It seems like the ultimate no-brainer to me.

[serolynne.livejournal.com]

Many WP themes support nested threads - but it is not a default on many of them. Ours does, but it's not nearly as robust or reliable as LJs. For instance, you can't subscribe to a thread. There may be plug-ins for that, but I haven't gone too deep with it.

I also don't like WP for social blogging - it just doesn't work that way. Many of your posts would be ideal for a WP hosted blog. Your projects, travels, adventures, interesting tidbits & research you've done. However, I think you'd find that you would miss the social aspect for some topics where you want a conversation between yourself, your readers and between them. WP just doesn't hack it for that - there's no real concept of a user profile, or linking/friending readers together. It's basically more like a public interaction between you - the blogger, and each reader. (Of course, that doesn't mean some responders don't respond to each other.. it's just much more difficult to track that way).

For me, I'm still working on defining the distinctions of what goes where.

[ferrouswheel.livejournal.com]

I suggest adding the disqus plugin if you use Wordpress. Deals with the difficulty of threaded comments, spam, accounts, rating them etc.

http://disqus.com/overview/