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admin
over 10 years

Unfortunately, Google decided to shut down the Adsense anyhow. I've asked for an appeal, but if they do not reply by the end of the month, I will be shutting down the site. Thanks for the good times, but I suppose it's time for me to move on.

Owen
over 10 years

Howl says

What if tokens became something of a currency you used to play minigames? Like those 25 cent games at the arcade.


lolno
Ediz
over 10 years
I hope lucid did ask what GOOGLE exactly wants and where the problem is in the appeal so we can get rid of the problem in first place. If they don't give a logical answer it means they don't give a flying shit about us
Sims
over 10 years
$1k a month is a year's worth of minimum wage work. think rationally for a second
deletedover 10 years
What if tokens became something of a currency you used to play minigames? Like those 25 cent games at the arcade.
deletedover 10 years
make google happy > getting a new income source
Bumpers
over 10 years

Orithyus says

I'm no webserver pro, but I can't imagine that this site costs much more than $1k to run a month, and I'm absolutely confident we could get that much money out of donations alone.


No.
Sims
over 10 years
yeah except nessa is completely right. lucid won't keep the site running on donations.
Snow
over 10 years
My first rational thought was why not just set it up as a donation scheme? Or we could just encourage people to buy assloads of tokens monthly. I'm game, and I'm sure a whole bunch of other people would be willing. I'm no webserver pro, but I can't imagine that this site costs much more than $1k to run a month, and I'm absolutely confident we could get that much money out of donations alone.

At the same time, if we want the appeal to be successful, we need to start cleaning up the website immediately. Like, ultimate rule crackdown of ultimate proportions. Now. Now now. Immediately now.
deletedover 10 years

Howl says


Yuno says


SpiritOfFire says

HOLD ON A SECOND

THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN THE ADSENSE NOT THE SITE

ok you don't even *need* adsense to run a site

there are plenty of reputable ad companies out there who pay just as well

plus, donations. I didn't give you like £60 for nothin, lucid. EVERYONE START DONATING STAT

yo admin you're not shuttin down the site ok??? OK??????


dont start donating till lucid has said what hes doing. if he shuts down the site you dont get a refund


This implies he doesn't deserve donations for the work he's already done.


donating thinking it will help save the site is wrong + shouldn't be encouraged. if you wanna donate to lucid for what hes done, that's fine.
Riddler
over 10 years
Nikki check skype.
mja9678
over 10 years
:'( well this really sucks
deletedover 10 years

NessaMaria says

" EVERYONE START DONATING STAT" ya donate so he can pocket some money and still shut it down. no thanks.


This kind of negativity and insult is probably one of the reasons he isn't motivated to keep the site beyond attempting to appeal to google.
deletedover 10 years
ok well i tried my best but im getting continually shot down so rip epicmafia maybe this isnt a bad thing after all

i guess im just ignorant to a lot of things and that cant be helped but so much for me trying
Steven
over 10 years

Howl says


Yuno says


SpiritOfFire says

HOLD ON A SECOND

THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN THE ADSENSE NOT THE SITE

ok you don't even *need* adsense to run a site

there are plenty of reputable ad companies out there who pay just as well

plus, donations. I didn't give you like £60 for nothin, lucid. EVERYONE START DONATING STAT

yo admin you're not shuttin down the site ok??? OK??????


dont start donating till lucid has said what hes doing. if he shuts down the site you dont get a refund


This implies he doesn't deserve donations for the work he's already done.

Bumpers
over 10 years

Rutab says


Bumpers says

You guys are asking for someone to just hand over 6 years of personal work for your own use. Use your head.


Im not saying sell the site

is there someone that lucid can TRUST that will be a CO-owner of the site and will NOT undermine lucid's work?


Co-owner in what? Giving all of the money to keep the site up? Rutab, please.
deletedover 10 years
" EVERYONE START DONATING STAT" ya donate so he can pocket some money and still shut it down. no thanks.
deletedover 10 years

Yuno says


SpiritOfFire says

HOLD ON A SECOND

THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN THE ADSENSE NOT THE SITE

ok you don't even *need* adsense to run a site

there are plenty of reputable ad companies out there who pay just as well

plus, donations. I didn't give you like £60 for nothin, lucid. EVERYONE START DONATING STAT

yo admin you're not shuttin down the site ok??? OK??????


dont start donating till lucid has said what hes doing. if he shuts down the site you dont get a refund


This implies he doesn't deserve donations for the work he's already done.
AdrenalineMime
over 10 years

Rutab says


Bumpers says

You guys are asking for someone to just hand over 6 years of personal work for your own use. Use your head.


Im not saying sell the site

is there someone that lucid can TRUST that will be a CO-owner of the site and will NOT undermine lucid's work?



Sims says

i don't know lucid very well but from what i've seen he likes to be self sufficient and wouldn't want anybody supporting him monetarily

deletedover 10 years

Bumpers says


lolwot says

The traffic to this website would decline immediately, but would rebuild itself. Plus you have the added benefit of not losing the website.


Instead you recieve less income on a server plan that probably can't be reduced to match the reduction in finance as these things are done by contract.

It doesn't solve anything long term, which is where the important factor is.


I think right now our #1 focus is on how to "not lose Adsense ads" rather than something long term. Eventually a compromise will have to be made. Either Lucid accepts less revenue to start with (remember, we have no way to gauge right now what that figure is in the first place), or Lucid shuts down the site if it's not a viable option for him in the long run.

Any options that are not how EM is run on today are a lose/lose situation. There's nothing that will match the effectiveness of the google ads as they are right now. Believing we will find an equivalent alternative is naive and not realistic at all because some loss is inevitable no matter which path you take. The best we can do is aim to regain the equivalent in the future.
deletedover 10 years

Bumpers says

You guys are asking for someone to just hand over 6 years of personal work for your own use. Use your head.


Im not saying sell the site

is there someone that lucid can TRUST that will be a CO-owner of the site and will NOT undermine lucid's work?
deletedover 10 years

SpiritOfFire says

HOLD ON A SECOND

THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN THE ADSENSE NOT THE SITE

ok you don't even *need* adsense to run a site

there are plenty of reputable ad companies out there who pay just as well

plus, donations. I didn't give you like £60 for nothin, lucid. EVERYONE START DONATING STAT

yo admin you're not shuttin down the site ok??? OK??????


dont start donating till lucid has said what hes doing. if he shuts down the site you dont get a refund
Sims
over 10 years
i don't know lucid very well but from what i've seen he likes to be self sufficient and wouldn't want anybody supporting him monetarily
Bumpers
over 10 years
You guys are asking for someone to just hand over 6 years of personal work for your own use. Use your head.
SpiritOfFire
over 10 years
HOLD ON A SECOND

THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN THE ADSENSE NOT THE SITE

ok you don't even *need* adsense to run a site

there are plenty of reputable ad companies out there who pay just as well

plus, donations. I didn't give you like £60 for nothin, lucid. EVERYONE START DONATING STAT

yo admin you're not shuttin down the site ok??? OK??????
deletedover 10 years
sell the site.