Ads are causing squashed posts

[MrPaul]

Can the advert listings which are now inside posts be modified so that they appear above or below the post itself, rather than alongside? Posts are squashed and it makes code extremely difficult to read properly. Horizontal space tends to be at a premium.

 

See screenshot below.

[snarfblam]

I've never seen one of these ads before. All I'm getting is the banner up top and the box on the right (the same when I'm logged in and not).

[MrPaul]

Threads with ads

 

I figured they were probably intended to be seen by unregistered users, but somehow I'm seeing them in certain threads. Here's a few I've been able to find just now:

 

A Question about Hashtable

Form Designer oddities: "Custom" TextBox

GetExtension

 

Even if they are just for unregistered users, they should still be placed above or below posts, rather than alongside.

[snarfblam]

Re: Threads with ads

 

Huh. I hadn't seen any of those until just now, but there they are. Well, I certainly find that to be a problem.

[Nate Bross]

I second (or third?) that.

[PlausiblyDamp]

I've raised the issue with iNet interactive and will keep you informed of any further development.

[mskeel]

Did you hear that?

 

That was the sound of this message board being flushed down the toilet thanks to too many ads.

[joe_pool_is]

Thanks for saying something about that, MrPaul. I've noticed them for a while and just assumed it was something we had to live with to get the message board.

 

I'm ok with the ads - sometimes they are even helpful! But I don't like having to work around them quite that much.

[Nate Bross]

I don't mind them either, but since they squash the code blocks it makes it difficult to use [see attached]

 

Even if they were taking up the entire first few rows that would be fine, I don't mind reading them and scrolling down to the content...

 

I just don't like horizontal scrolling...

[PlausiblyDamp]

Surely the relevance of the ads make up for the inconvenience, after all if you are writing code to take a screen shot then you are almost guaranteed to want a new screen saver and a reel of bailing cord...

[joe_pool_is]

I was just know wondering where I could find me some good bailing cord, too!

 

Thanks Nate!

[Nate Bross]

The arrows were intended to illustrate the side by side nature of the ads as opposed to the stacked block style that I find much more readable [and apparently from this thread I'm not the only one ;)].