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if you want to know the sort of answer from a dumb dude that wasnt directly involved, google adwords which pays a chunk of fees for the board yanked our account for obscene material or some such shit, referenced that thread, tried to appeal and the only way they would go for it is if the thread vanished.

what the

i think the fbi pressured the mods to pull it. if you read down to the bottom of the thread, some subversive ideas were beginning to circulate

holy shit @ jjj post

that's fucked up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NttlPwNKd_M

*Hurriedly finds, and saves, a cache of the thread*

i like how people joke about the feds but aren't realy perturbed with fucken Google censoring the board

Yeah, that is actually major-league bullshit right there.

well I'M perturbed

http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif

what???

well it's not censorship; they're just not paying you if you don't meet their arbitrary orwellian restrictions

iirc the only problem with ILX doing periodic fundraisers for the hosting was meeting our goals so fast that US folks couldn't pitch in

maybe the thread in question could be moved to 77?

yeah, people pushed and pushed and pushed for Google ads for some dumb fucking reason and now we we live in communist russia

probably the best way to get Google off the site and get the fundraisers popping again is to alert google to all the offensive threads

Dear Google,

NSFW OR ANYTHING ELSE: the individual 'ginas of wallogina

Long for the days when the walls were paper thin and there were no secrets

for reference

POLL: Should ILX put ads in front of unregistered lurkers in exchange for money?

Don't worry, I'll bring it back once this thing with Google's done. It's a massive pain in the ass, but is mostly just down to a bug in their "policy violation appeal" form.

We need to talk about the funding situ again at some point soon though, because it's hard to know what to do. The old yearly fund drives were OK (although a pain to administer), but when we moved to Amazon for hosting it meant there's both a yearly cost *and* a hard-to-predict monthly cost. I didn't like having cash just sitting burning a hole in an account, and I also didn't like not knowing how much any potential shortfall could be.

Google was a great fix for that side of it, but the more you make from them the more they investigate you, and we've got an archive-load of stuff they Don't Like.

I guess there are a few options here - subscriptions, someone else handling funds, moving out of Amazon, something else. I'll have a look around and consider tech options first. Amazon is great, but it's also not cheap.

xp yeah, it'd be great if you could make my life as hard as possible, Whiney.

Ah, I didn't know the thing about monthly costs, I don't think. Otherwise I'd just be advocating a straight return to funding drives.

is the loverboy thread the only one weve lost, seems like a pretty ok cost to pay

first they came for loverboy, and lag∞n said 'pretty ok'

lol did I get banned because I made a joke post about gundam wings

listen the name of the band is loverboy its a loverboys ass ok lets try to put this all behind us

why did google zero in on that thread of all threads?

its a mystery

dam slam dunk had like the record shortest run on 77, props mang

it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we ran out of money

maybe instead of posting on a messageboard, we should all get a house together.

as long as "all" doesn't actually mean "all," i'm there

which ilx0rs would you live with

buffandmaxsmom

which ilxors whld u tell yr secrets to which ilxors wld u spoon

ah, the spooning

Kenan

https://img0.etsystatic.com/024/0/8722422/il_570xN.531540702_tq1o.jpg

why did google zero in on that thread of all threads?

i think it is because the ILX thread was linked in the Wiki thread, so they were able to find it. if that wasn't linked there i doubt there would have been a problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lucky_(Loverboy_album)

see: References #7

perhaps we can get the canadian parliament to edit that for us

lol

Hey whiney, I assume that you are cool with covering googles contribution out of pocket because you know if not stfu

Just everyone be quiet! Shush!

Ha whatever dude

this is why we can't have a man's ass or a woman's ass on the cover of Loverboy's Get Lucky

no one's hungry for it anymore

who added the wikipedia link own up

ilx in 2014

http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/panopticon-diagram.jpg

do you think halo manash or that woman from ash would do a better cover of daft punk's get lucky

To be honest, I wouldn't want to advertise on a Loverboy fan site like this one either.

i, for one, am loving every minute of this