Quote from: eleuthria on June 28, 2011, 05:18:46 PM

The ads only appear for < 0.5% donators. Adblock or not, they will not appear unless your donation is at the lowest levels. The site is not "plastered with ads". It has one wide but short google adsense banner ad.

Other ways to make money? I'd be all for it! This was just a way to get something out of the continued growth. The pool's donations per block have been slipping consistently, and these ads on 0.0-0.4% donators are a very good way to normalize the revenue coming from people who don't give back to a pool that is currently demanding many dedicated servers.

If it was my pool I'd announce a minimum .5 or 1% fee... You are big enough now that you may lose a few people but slush is 2%, deep 3%, and no one else comes close to the size. Losing a few of the people who never contribute when you keep taking on additional costs is better than ~~sooner or later going to make~~ you quitting the site if you don't make a few ~~bucks~~ bitcoins off it. Everyone who doesn't contribute can hate me and call me a troll all you want, but for all the economics posts on this forum people sure hate to hear they have to pay a measly 1% fee for all the work you do. Just my humble opinion.

EDIT:
I really didn't proofread this as well as I normally would. Strikeouts throughout.