spam, the people, and the mods
To all those who are complaining about the somewhat recent attachment of spam in threads.
Why?
Jupitermedia obviously has no intentions to withdraw the advertisements.
This should be fairly apparent after their pathetic half-screen advertisements.
You are fighting where you ought to be flighting. Or of course you can accept it and ignore them.
I don't find it particularly difficult to tip my view down a bit.
Clicking the links only feeds those you hate.
Sure, the advertisements are arbitarily useless.
Of course, it doesn't matter if the typical users disapproves.
If I was a moderator of this site I would demand payment(or additonal payment, they're making more money, why shouldn't the mods?) from Jupitermedia for this spam. They seem like a greedy company that wouldn't want to comply with such a demand. In recourse the moderators go on strike.
Thus, any spammers can spam. Any jerk can be as jerky the jerk wants, and ultimately this forum would most likely suffer great loses in users. Then there is the obvious, losing the moderators programming expertise that helps users.
Of course convincing the mods to do so could be a problem.