TLS and boobs

[Cthulhu]

I recently managed to get Google's crawlers back on the forums, and thanks to that, they are no longer showing ads on our website . Here's what I got:

Hello,

During a recent review of your account we found that you are currently
displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our program
policies
(https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=48182&stc=aspe-1pp-en).

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EXAMPLE PAGE:
http://thelifestream.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10238&page=13

They link to the Boobs Appreciation Club, which is - obviously - NSFW and apparently not allowed by google (prude fucks, lawl).

I think we can get around this issue by moving unacceptable stuff to a forum not viewable if you're not logged in, i.e. hide the clubs section (and, I propose, general chat as well) from people not logged in.

I don't want to forbid n00dz, really. I like boobs. But at the same time, I like money. I'm so conflicted .

 

[Ⓐaron]

Private forum is fine by me.

 

[Cookie Monster]

DU EET.

 

[Octo]

This is the same google that allows people to search for 'chicks with dicks' right? Double standards!

But yeah, do whatever you've got to.

 

[Fangu]

Yeah, go ahead

 

[Carlos]

Hi. I'm Barack Obama and I approve of this message.

 

[Cthulhu]

Righty; I've made it so the entire 'general discussion' forum and its subforums can no longer be seen by unregistered / logged out users; this includes clubs and whatnot. This might fix our broken relationship with Google. Or it might not, in which case I'll start selling your personal informations to the highest bidder.

 

[Ⓐaron]

I think making all of GD un-viewable by guests is a bit much. Just make a new section for boobs and stick relevant content in there. Also require female members to poast n00dz within.

 

[Cthulhu]

You know as much as I do it's not very likely they will, . And I've actually thought about putting most of general chat behind a login-wall, seeing as there's quite a bit of personal stuff in there (including pics). But feel free to tweak it if you like.

 

[Ⓐaron]

No, of course it's not likely, but we can always try anyway. And I guess we could just move the personal stuff behind the login-wall too? I have no problem with things like the "things that piss you off" or whatever threads being behind a login-wall because no one that doesn't know the members will care about it, but stuff like entertainment and politics threads and whatever might bring in people who would otherwise not bother looking at the forums, which might cause more people to login. Or not, idk.

 

[Cthulhu]

I dunno either, lol

 

[Ⓐaron]

So should I make a "Boobs and Personal Stuff" forum and just hide the content in that forum?

 

[Carlie]

Somewhere in England Masa is plotting against Google.

 

[Cthulhu]

nah, I like the current forum setup and hiding all non-FF related stuff behind a login wall.

 

[Ghost X]

^ +1 Vote.

 

[Octo]

nah, I like the current forum setup and hiding all non-FF related stuff behind a login wall.

Yeah, its best to sweep all that stuff under the carpet don't want to scare new members off

 

[Pixel]

Privates forum

<_<


*cough*

 

[Hisako]

Yeah, its best to sweep all that stuff under the carpet don't want to scare new members off

Also, I like how registering for the forum now has an incentive behind it.

 

[Ⓐaron]

The big problem I see is that people browsing the forum as guests have no way of knowing that there is content hidden from them. At the very least the forum should probably be visible with just thread content hidden to non-members.

 

[Tennyo]

Well at one point in time this kind of stuff was for the donation section only. I thought that was supposed to help keep this kind of stuff from happening.

 

[Cthulhu]

That is true, actually, but I guess people just prefer posting personal stuff in public / semi-public. Might also be because it's not very clear who's in the donator usergroup and who isn't, as well as the existence of those threads in that section before the donator usergroup was there.

@'ron: feel free to change stuff around if you feel you can be arsed, I can't, .

 

[Masamune]

Somewhere in England Masa is plotting against Google.

 

[Fangu]

Masa

 

[Max Payne]

your username should be king tits

look at that fucking avatar jaysus

 

[Cthulhu]

Okay, it seems that this isn't a 'temporary suspension', but one which actually requires me to appeal to them in order to reinstate the ads. If I do, they'll do a new scan of the site to look for anything not 'according to their policies'; if they find anything, they'll just keep blocking me. They only show one 'example page' of things not okay in their book, so it's not like they offer any tools to 'clean up' the site, to put it that way.

Before I make the appeal, does anyone know of anything not according to Google's policies in any public forum? I'm mainly talking stuff of a sexual nature.

I dunno why Google's being so anal about it though. If they still block us after the appeal for some BS reason, I'm inclined to figure out some other way to make the site pay for itself. This may result in shittier ads, btw, something which I'd rather avoid.

One option would be to crack down completely on anything even slightly NSFW, including fanart with boobage or whatevers. This is not my favorite option, btw, for obvious reasons.

The alternative is for me to just keep paying for it myself - it's doable, etc, don't worry. But I do expect moar boobage and shit to be poasted, in that case, .