Diabloii.net sucks ass

[Jugalator]

1.) Take a look at bandwidth usage and start trimming any superfluous junk. Considering how much of D2.net qualifies as junk in the eyes of many, this should be fairly stright forward.

2.) When advertising, use ads that are relevant to the site content.

3.) Sponsorship rocks. D2.net is known to Blizzard as a strong and popular supporter of  products that Blizzard make money from. Can you add 2 + 2?

1. But if it's superfluous, will that then cost bandwidth for them? If it's a very rarely visited page, it won't consume much bandwidth either. If it IS often visited though, it's not superfluous per definition.

2. The popups are at least localized -- I get swedish advertisements. :) Something I can't say about many advertising sites out there. A problem with what you say is that the sites that's related to Diablo II might be hack sites. There aren't many Diablo II sites out there that are out to make money, except for those. Phrozen Keep links to hack sites right now and if diabloii.net did the same, I'm sure that would raise far more complaints than they get from the use of popups. Is Lurker's Lounge or Amazon Basin prepared to pay diabloii.net if they put ads for them on their site? I think not. We're talking about a pretty small niche.

3. This is an interesting alternative, and something one who're annoyed about popups should perhaps ask the diabloii.net staff about.

Either way, if you try to block the popup on diabloii.net I think you shouldn't visit the site. I think a visitor has two options to stay from just becoming a stupid leech:

1. Visit the site with blocking disabled.
2. Don't visit the site.

If you wish them to find alternatives to popups, mail them. If they don't listen or don't like the suggestion, do one of this:

1. Visit the site with blocking disabled.
2. Don't visit the site.

Also, complaining about lack of security by allowing popups (that can be malicious) is something I think one should do in a mail to the staff. If they don't change their stance, I hope you'll do one of the options above and not show your lack of morale by inventing option #3:

3. Visit the site and somehow circumvent the blocking software.