> > The amount of pop ups this morning has been really offensive. After eight minutes on RinkWorks, I was interrupted in mid-sentence by full-screen PU's eight times. That averages one a minute. Too much. I think I'll just keep calling them PU's because they stink.
> > Howard
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> I don't like them either, but I don't mind putting up with them on *this* site, to help out Sam a bit. One a minute would be nice, actually -- I get one every ten or twenty seconds.
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> Sam, *do* you find a noticeable difference in site revenue with the pop-ups? What about traffic? I've always wondered if the extra revenue with this type of advertising was enough to cover the loss of traffic from pop-up haters.

They don't bother me as long as they don't take the whole page. The worst ones are designed to pop up just as you are about to click on something and you wind up clicking on the ad. Sometimes there is a reply box right where you intended to click on something else and who knows what kind of mess you can get into. It certainly isn't limited to this site. And the timing and positioning of the pop up is no accident.
How"my day to grumble"ard