A question for gcities.com

**Chicken** · November 13th, 2000, 21:56

Please tell me that we won't start seeing posts asking for "searchbox free hosting"!!!

*tough crowd*

**Gcites** · November 13th, 2000, 23:13

LOL! chicken your funny i really mean it hehe you make me laugh

well people mostly see ads as banners so it is ad-free

Ron Seigel · November 13th, 2000, 23:28

You are requiring members to put *something* on their site in exchange for the account. How is that ad-free? You're using the fact that it's technically not a 'banner' in a lame attempt to trick members into thinking they're getting something they're not. That's pathetic! What are you afraid of?

**Gcites** · November 14th, 2000, 03:11

nothing

http://www.gcites.com = it says that we place a search box hmm +)

**Chicken** · November 14th, 2000, 09:18

I'm not sure you should promote that as ad free, not that I even know if you are, even though technically it is ad free. Technically might p-off some people though. Again, I don't know how you are promoting this, so this might not even apply.

**psalzer** · November 15th, 2000, 12:03

Probably no deception meant, don't you think? I haven't seen it, but a search box might be very much preferable to a banner. Of course, for a lot of people the issue isn't really how the banner looks, but having code added to their pages. It can be a big problem if you're using frames, or if there's no ftp and more than one person is working on the site..things like that.

Ron Seigel · November 15th, 2000, 12:06

I still say an ad is an ad is an ad. Whether it's a banner, button text link or *search box* it still makes the FWP owner money and therefore is an ad. Period! I certainly hope Peo hasn't listed gcites as an ad-free FWP. (if he's even listed it at all - haven't bothered to check).

**NC_TOM** · November 15th, 2000, 12:20

While it isn't really an ad, it isn't really ad-free. I think that it's basically a replacement for a banner, so maybe you should at least mention that you require it to be placed. If you mention this, then you're doing fine. Otherwise, you're misleading people.