Topic: TS.net Site Commercials

[Giff me dat fill-em!]

Mr. Webmaster Dunrobin,
I am beginning to get little commercial boxes in the right corner of my happy life on TS.net. I know a webservice MUST be paid for, and we here at TS.net have been very weak in supporting you, so I sympathize. AND a campaign to get more support might actually decrease your visitor base ... so my question is, are the commercials a permanent addition to your site?

[Giff me dat fill-em!]

(Oh, by the way .. lasting THIS long on your own before letting corporate peoples get into your site is absolutely commendable! ... no wonder we love your Three Stooges website!)

[Dunrobin]

Hi Giff -

First, my apologies for taking more than four and a half years to reply.  You asked your question back when I wasn't giving the site much attention.  I only noticed the topic because a guest was viewing it when I looked at the Who's Online page a few minutes ago.

I've been including Amazon ads on the pages for years, and a some point (I don't remember when exactly) I added Google Adsense ads at the bottom on the pages, where they wouldn't interfere with the content of the pages.  I don't make much off of either of them (roughly $100 a year from each of them), which does help offset part of the cost of keeping the site running.

That's the most I will ever allow on the site.  I didn't create ThreeStooges.net to make money off of it; it exists to celebrate our love of the Stooges, and to share as much information about them to the world as possible.

- Rob