Thank you Justin!

Gotta give me a bit of a break after the long season. I’ll be back around shortly. 🙂

If my skin was so thin that I allowed an anonymous person’s single post on the internet to actually hurt my feelings, I should probably stay off the internet, especially areas that allowed such posts. Or grow thicker skin before venturing into those areas.

To answer your question about how I would feel… I probably wouldn’t feel anything really. It’d be someone I never met personally and don’t know their credentials well enough to have any sort of real admiration towards them. So if they posted something I didn’t understand or didn’t agree with, I’d have no real feelings towards it at all. I’d probably just chalk it up as some random guy on the internet and keep it moving (like I do all the time).

I’ve actually abandoned the third-world child I was “adopting.” The letters and pictures he would sent were nice and all, but ITH is a better value and I’m a bargain shopper lol

I like that, Tom. Also: one beer a month. Best value on the interwebs.

OR you could say … less than 10 cents a day. Shoot, you can almost find that in the couch seat cushions. LOL

I tell you the truth, this is the right time. A new era in IU BB, and a ton of things going on. Just the recruiting threads alone, are well worth it. I kid you not, I spend more time on the forum now than I ever did, and that’s just trying to keep up! lol

There is a delicate balance for publishers to consider. A lot of more intrusive ads pay better. It costs money to create original content. It is a complex system, but ultimately, without ads, we aren’t in business and there is no site. For that reason, I feel it’s important to raise awareness on the issue.

I haven’t had that experience here which I am grateful for, but I have noticed quite a few websites are going to this now. I am just stating that I have no problem with ads unless I get those separate page ones. I probably could have expressed that better. Thanks for responding though and great work on the site.

We miss you, Calbert. As a diehard Cubs fan myself, it’s time to come back.

And for anyone who is not a member of the premium forum, I encourage you to give it a try. Although I rarely comment on the main site, being an active participant in the forum is 2nd to none. I recommend it to anyone. Amazing content, incredibly cheap subscription, and a great community.

Nothing should be taking over the screen without a user action. In other words, unless you hover over an ad or click on it, then it shouldn’t be taking over your screen. “Bad ads” do get into the rotation – that is the nature of how it works when you’re working with ad exchanges – but we are not purposely putting anything on here that takes over your screen. If there is an instance where this is happening, I welcome anyone to email me (insidethehall @ gmail) with a screenshot so I can work to try and get it fixed.

You could also say 2 or 3 soft drinks a month depending on where you get them.

Ads themselves don’t bother me, but it is the pop up windows that come up and take over the screen that I was half way through reading. As long as those don’t show up, I am perfectly fine with as many ads as you want to put on the page.

I plan on joining the premium not sure when I though. I am on this site way to much not to be a premium member.

I joined the forum this past year, and while I’ve not been very active lately due to being in full Cubs baseball mode, it is a great way to get even more info on the team. But I still like mixing it up on the public site too. ITH is easily the best IU basketball site around, IMO. Keep up the good work, Alex and co.

I used to visit the public site everyday for 2 years.. Finally, I became a premium member! I’ve been extremely pleased with that decision! There is always interesting content and discussion in the forum! There are very knowledgeable IU fans in the forum, I practically learn something new about the team or IU history everyday!