@dark knight & @Ismitje: Please consider this my formal request for the end of my lifetime bans from the Politics & US Men's News & Analysis & US Youth Forms.
I agree with this motion protecting others from opposing opinions is what got trump elected to president
what makes you think I am joking? I am also banned from politics forum and we both want the same thing to engage in meaningful debate with others who share their views
I vote "no." Not because I don't want your view point, but because I would like P&CE to not get nuked. And at the moment, if you were there, that might happen. Seriously, as a poster, I would like you there, but as a mod who knows your history, I take pity on my fellow mods.
My 2 cents Mr.Warmth has done his time for his crimes and should at least be let back in US Men's News and Analysis.
Yes. While there has been quite a bit of animosity over the years, there are also a lot of varied POVs, even from my particular political neck of the woods. Plus there are quite a few well educated posters. And it is fun to be able to side a soccer reference in from time to time.
P&CE is surviving a couple unholy dipshits already. While I'm honestly not sure that @Mr. Warmth would help, I'm also not sure he'd hurt it either. -- edit -- And as a former mod who banned @Mr. Warmth (with cause!) from every board he ever moderated, I earnestly believe that all the new mods suffer the troublemaker just like I did. (Actually, in all truthfulness, I don't think @Mr. Warmth is the same kind of poster he was years ago. He's mellowed. I suspect he'll take that as an insult. And it sort of is.)
Keep the ban I have been banned for years now. It nice not having to talk to people who are idiots I don't agree with. I originally came here to post on soccer and maybe a few other things, but not politics. Finally the right guy won. The thing I hate most about this site is seeing all the Mazda commercials I see on this site. Every time I come on I see a Mazda commercial. I would never buy a Mazda, and I never goggled to find a Mazda. I tried a few times to get rid of it. Now that's all I see here. Just looking at that piece of crap makes me sick.
Today is Feb 26 2017 I can't watch another Mazda commercial on this f u c k I n g site so am out of here.
You do know that BS does not control what ads you see, just that you see ads, yes? The company which BS uses has Mazda in it's cycle, and somebody from your IP/location must have done a search or gone to a website which triggered a Mazda ad. For example, I used to get ads in Spanish all the time, even though I don't visit Spanish language websites of any kind. But my SO did, thus I got Spanish language ads even though she never visited BS. Of course, you could avoid ads by going Premium.
People complain about websites spying on them, but the method you mentioned above is infinitely better than being served random ads of no interest to the viewer.
When we visit websites we get small files stored on our computer (typically known a cookies, and other similar files) which I think are read by advertising companies. Not completely sure about this part, but I think that's why if you spend a day surfing Spanish language news sites, you will get Spanish language advertising on any number of websites which have adverts directed to Spanish-speaking people.