What's Wrong With The Ads On Persona Paper?

Who else has noticed these ads on Persona Paper? Those moving and bouncing ads featuring women. Who likes these ads? Why are they here? What do you think about them?

I know at least one other person has noticed these ads: crowntower and a post was written about it here. I agree about not liking these kinds of ads :-(. I don't like them either and wish they weren't being displayed here of all places.

And there were some complaining about the ads on Bubblews, but I've just been to Bubblews (briefly, just to see if there were new updates and changes. There were none, just so you know, but is that surprising?).

I've seen some of the ads there and none of them were like the ones here on Persona Paper. Even those AdBlade ads didn't seem all that offensive or bad, compared to the ones here. Sometimes, even refreshing the page doesn't get rid of the ads.

I talked about that moving Statue of Liberty ad in an earlier post and I don't exactly like that either, but I'll choose that ad over these kinds of ads any day. Come back Statue of Liberty ad. I don't really hate you. Much.

I mean, I can put up with you. Really. So, don't go. And replace these annoying ads with yourself, okay? So, what about you? What do you think about these kinds of ads?

Here are some of the comments from this article, back when it used to be posted elsewhere:

Prophetess wrote on March 5, 2015, 2:45 PM:
I have read several complaints about this. The world we live in is all about sэx and all things disgusting. There is a new tv show called Schitz Creek. That says it all. I hope they take away this offensive ad.

FreyaYuki replied to Prophetess on March 6, 2015, 4:11 PM:
:-( Yes, I do hope they get rid of these offensive ads. Unfortunately, I'm still seeing them occasionally. :-( Are you still seeing them as well?

erikalui wrote on March 5, 2015, 3:25 PM:
I too don't like the adult ads being shown here. It does not seem decent and should be removed.

FreyaYuki replied to erikalui on March 6, 2015, 4:13 PM:
Yes, I completely agree. Persona Paper shouldn't be a site where ads like this are displayed.

MakeMoneyOnline wrote on March 5, 2015, 3:44 PM:
This could easily be fixed. At least with Adsense, you can block certain ads from displaying on your site. It's meant more to not show your direct competitors on your site, but it can easily be applied here. Persona Paper doesn't use Adsense but some other ad service, but they probably have the same feature.

If anyone catches the ad and notes the web address where it forwards, then MaeLou or elitecodex can manually block that address. Alternatively, there's probably a filter to disallow x-rated ads. I'm not sure if I saw these ads here, but I had some "маlз oгgаn эnlargеmеnт" ads shown and I really don't like them. I know I constantly get them on StatCounter and maybe here too. Mostly, the ads with half-naked women are for weight loss and the season for that is on.

FreyaYuki replied to MakeMoneyOnline on March 6, 2015, 4:24 PM:
Yeah, I heard about the possibility of blocking AdSense ads. I see lots of forum posts about that. I do hope that Persona Paper admins block these ads. I don't like them either. It seems that many others don't as well.

j2jworkz wrote on March 5, 2015, 3:54 PM:
I think I have developed the ability to not really see the ads anymore, anywhere!

AliCanary replied to j2jworkz on March 5, 2015, 7:47 PM:
Unfortunately, if you use ad blockers, you are not giving any of us credit for viewing our posts :-(

FreyaYuki replied to j2jworkz on March 6, 2015, 4:29 PM:
I usually ignore the ads too and don't really pay much attention to them but, some ads, like those that popup, auto-play or those that are offensive and inappropriate are pretty hard to ignore since it seems like they're trying to get in your face, trying to catch your attention or something. Very annoying, to say the least.

j2jworkz replied to AliCanary on March 5, 2015, 8:43 PM:
AliCanary I don't use adblocker or any other ad blocking program and since I'm not familiar with those programs, I have no idea who the competitors are. I mean the ability to visually ignore the ads.

antoniowestley wrote on March 5, 2015, 5:21 PM:
I have not seen anything like that on here yet but I have seen that crap on cgp and I always felt any site that had that couldn't be trusted and look what happened there

FreyaYuki replied to antoniowestley on March 6, 2015, 4:45 PM:
It's good that you haven't seen these kinds of ads here yet. I wish I didn't have to see them either. I hope these ads can be removed/disabled.

bestwriter wrote on March 5, 2015, 6:29 PM:
I have one coming. You could alert Admin about it, attaching a screen shot.

FreyaYuki replied to bestwriter on March 6, 2015, 4:48 PM:
Unfortunately, I don't want my mouse anywhere near these ads. Who knows if they contain malware or viruses or something when they're accidentally clicked? They all seem very suspicious like something's not right with them. But, eh, who knows?

AliCanary wrote on March 5, 2015, 7:46 PM:
We've had problems from time to time with objectionable ads as the admins have tried different ad agencies to see what will pay best. Best thing to do is report the ads to elitecodex -- he can flag them to the agency that provides them and tell them we don't want them on the site.

FreyaYuki replied to AliCanary on March 12, 2015, 1:49 PM:
Ah, I see. Maybe they are still experimenting with the best ad agencies. I hope they can find one that doesn't play objectionable, inappropriate, spammy-looking and annoying ads.

luisga814 wrote on March 5, 2015, 9:31 PM:
Well I do not like those ads either. I just read your articles and not checking those ads. Pretending they are not there in my eyesight. But we have to think of it. Those ads, are the one paying the Persona Paper, and later on the one who will pay to us.

FreyaYuki replied to luisga814 on March 12, 2015, 1:45 PM:
I ignore them too. I don't even look at them but, sometimes, they really make it hard for you to ignore them like when the ad just auto-plays and starts moving and bouncing. I wonder if these ads pay per click or per impression and if there are people here who visit Persona Paper and interact or click on these ads?

cheri wrote on March 11, 2015, 8:52 AM:
I have grown accustomed to them but what is really annoying is the bouncing ъооъs of some women in the ads! LOL

FreyaYuki replied to cheri on March 12, 2015, 1:42 PM:
I don't think I can get used to these kinds of ads. I just don't think they fit in a site like Persona Paper. After all, aren't there some topics that we're not supposed to write about? Ugh, I've seen those ads too. Very annoying.

grandma20121 wrote on March 11, 2015, 11:54 AM:
I don't think I actually seen these ads yet so I really can't say much on it, I'll let you know after

FreyaYuki replied to grandma20121 on March 12, 2015, 1:42 PM:
Ah, it's good that you haven't seen them. They're annoying, they look spammy and they don't look nice at all.

AdGoggleKo wrote on March 13, 2015, 3:20 AM:
I am on mobile I don't see that ad you are referring to. Only ezmob ad keeps popping up on my screen but it's just fine. :)

FreyaYuki replied to AdGoggleKo on March 13, 2015, 12:28 PM:
Ah, I don't like popup ads either. Very annoying and intrusive. :-)

crowntower wrote on March 13, 2015, 5:12 AM:
I already wrote about this in the support team at persona, but they want me to send the url but I can't because if I click one of those ads it might have viruses. I hope MaeLou and the rest of the team will check on it. This is a site that рoгпograрhy is not allowed then why there are ads looking for sэx partners and with this kind of live photos.

MaeLou replied to crowntower on March 13, 2015, 11:40 AM:
We're asking for a screenshot, not a url. We cannot do anything without a screenshot.

FreyaYuki replied to crowntower on March 13, 2015, 12:29 PM:
I agree with you. I don't want to click on those ads either. You never know if they contain viruses or malware or other dangerous scripts and programs that can harm your PC. It's good that you contacted Persona Paper about this already. I hope they can do something about this soon. I'm still seeing these ads. How 'bout you?

crowntower replied to MaeLou on March 13, 2015, 11:52 AM:
Hi MaeLou that the support team told me or maybe I got confused because I did gave them two screenshots... and after a few days that certain ads add another ads that saying they were looking for a xxx partners.

I already e-mailed the support team with two attachment of screenshot... thank you.

CalmGemini wrote on March 17, 2015, 11:16 AM:
Yes, I do see the ads frequently.But you know we cannot use ad blockers.

FreyaYuki replied to CalmGemini on March 18, 2015, 10:26 AM:
I don't use an ad blocker either. The problem isn't really with all of the ads. It's just with those that come across as offensive and inappropriate. Hopefully, the admin can do something about those kinds of ads since they shouldn't be found on Persona Paper.

CalmGemini replied to FreyaYuki on March 18, 2015, 10:38 AM:
Yes, I do know advertisements are necessary. But as you said we do not have to suffer seeing such inappropriate ones. Already many members have complained about this. Hopefully some action will be taken.

*Notes:
- Image is by kaboompics (Public Domain) from Pixabay
- This was previously published elsewhere

Didn't Know This Was Going To Happen When Replying To Persona Paper Profile Comments

Did you know this was going to happen? Like my title says (well, it was supposed to include the question, but it’s long enough as it is, so you get that kind of title instead), I didn’t know about this at all, so I was surprised when it happened.

So, what in the world am I talking about? Well, it’s like this: I received some comments on my Persona Paper profile page. I thought that was really nice and that I should reply to those comments.

So, I copied each person’s username on the provided text box, added the & sign before their username and then typed each of my replies. I added a space between the replies.

It looked something like this:

&username1 here – my reply here
&username2 here – my reply here

I double-checked everything before hitting the submit comment button. The entire thing looked perfectly fine. It didn’t last for long though. When my comment got posted, I saw that the entire thing turned into this huge block of text as all the spaces that I put in between my replies disappeared.

Now, my entire comment looked like this:

&username1 here – my reply here &username2 here – my reply here

If I’d known that was going to happen, I would have just replied to these people separately. Oh, well. But now I wonder why the spaces disappeared? Where in the world did they go? What do you think?

Here are some of the comments from this article, back when it used to be posted elsewhere:

bestwriter wrote on July 29, 2014, 9:23 AM:
I do it this way. If I have received a comment on my profile. I click on that user name and that takes me to the profile. Simple.

FreyaYuki replied to bestwriter on July 30, 2014, 4:02 PM:
I guess that can work too. I just thought that replying to all the comments at once would turn out all right since we can tag the usernames so it seems better and more convenient than replying to each of them separately.

MaeLou wrote on July 29, 2014, 10:05 AM:
The profile comments have always had a little bit of issues with it. We plan to work these things through when we go to remodel the front page and profile pages. I'm not sure if elitecodex knows about the spacing on the profile comments.

FreyaYuki replied to MaeLou on July 30, 2014, 4:05 PM:
Oh, I see. Thanks for clarifying that. I guess I'll just have to reply to the comments separately, so the replies can easily be seen and they won't all look like one huge block of text.

AngelSharum wrote on July 29, 2014, 12:42 PM:
I just asked about basically the same thing when doing a poll. All the formatting for paragraphs went away.

FreyaYuki replied to AngelSharum on July 30, 2014, 4:08 PM:
Do you mean the formatting for paragraphs disappeared on your poll? Hope you were able to fix that.

AngelSharum replied to FreyaYuki on July 30, 2014, 5:10 PM:
You can't edit polls as far as I know so I couldn't fix it.

FreyaYuki replied to AngelSharum on July 31, 2014, 3:17 PM:
Oh, I see. I haven't tried making a poll yet, so I didn't know that. If it's a new poll, then maybe you can just delete it and then try again?

AngelSharum replied to FreyaYuki on July 31, 2014, 4:19 PM:
It's already old news...lol. I do hope they fix that function though.

Ruby3881 wrote on July 30, 2014, 6:16 AM:
I personally prefer to use the little reply arrows at the right of each comment. If you want to respond, just click that icon and type whatever you want the user to read. No need to tag them, because they get a notification automatically.

FreyaYuki replied to Ruby3881 on July 30, 2014, 4:10 PM:
Yes, that's what I do when I reply to comments on articles. But I didn't see an option like that for replying to profile comments. So I just typed all the replies in the comment box, added spaces to separate the usernames and the replies and then submitted the comment.

But I didn't know that the spaces were going to disappear so the entire comment just looked like one huge block of text. Now, I'll just reply to the profile comments separately.

Ruby3881 replied to FreyaYuki on July 31, 2014, 4:49 PM:
Sorry, I misread! I've always tried to reply to profile comments by going to the other person's profile. That makes it necessary to reply to each comment individually :)

FreyaYuki replied to Ruby3881 on August 1, 2014, 3:46 PM:
Okay, now that's what I'll be doing too when I get new profile comments. I guess it is better to reply on the person's profile page so they will surely see the comment :) .

Bensen32 wrote on July 31, 2014, 7:49 AM:
Yes, this same thing has happened to me many times and I'm not sure how to fix it so I have started to reply to each person one at a time.

FreyaYuki replied to Bensen32 on August 1, 2014, 4:03 PM:
That's what I'll be doing from now on when I get new profile comments. I was surprised since I wasn't expecting that to happen when I put all the replies in one single comment. I put all the proper spaces so I didn't think the formatting would disappear after you submit your comment.

*Notes:
- Image is by GraphBerry (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- This was previously published elsewhere

Why You Automatically Like Your Newly-Submitted Persona Paper Articles?

Has anyone else noticed this? Is this really how it works? I don’t really mind, I guess, maybe; I was just surprised since I'm not one to do this.

Okay, what in the world am I talking about? Right, yeah, let’s start from the beginning then. After I submit articles on the Persona Paper site, I noticed that there’s a blue check mark on the upper right side of the article.

When I hover my mouse on this check mark, it tells me that I’ve already liked this post. I don’t remember liking the post in question (oh, who am I kidding? Of course, I didn’t click on the like button), so the system must have automatically liked it for me.

It was surprising since I don’t use the like button on my articles . But, of course, I like those articles; I wrote them, didn’t I? I’m just not the type to click on the like button on my own articles since, well, shouldn’t that be left to the readers? Anyway, I guess I prefer to comment than to like.

Well, like I said, I don’t mind the automatic like since it’s our own article. It would be troublesome if this happened in other articles since, what if you didn’t mean to click the like button on that article, right?

Or if the article gets automatically liked before you even get the chance to read it. But I do wonder why this is the case. What do you think?

Here are some of the comments from this article, back when it used to be posted elsewhere:

Bensen32 wrote on July 27, 2014, 12:34 PM:
I have not noticed this to be honest, I will have to watch for that next time I write one. Maybe that is to prevent us from liking our own articles?

FreyaYuki replied to Bensen32 on July 27, 2014, 3:01 PM:
I think you're right; this probably happens to prevent people from liking their own posts. After submitting my latest article, I just noticed that, while the blue check mark does appear and it does say that we liked our post already, the like count actually stayed zero. So we didn't really like our post at all.

LoudMan wrote on July 27, 2014, 12:40 PM:
I've noticed it too and I'm guessing Bensen32 has it right. Of course, I don't know. Thanks for your entry.

FreyaYuki replied to LoudMan on July 27, 2014, 2:59 PM:
You're welcome. And, yeah, I think so too. Apparently, the blue check mark doesn't register your supposed like as a like. I just noticed this when I submitted my latest article. I saw the blue check mark, but the like count remained zero so I guess this is to stop people from liking their own posts, which is how it should be.

elitecodex wrote on July 27, 2014, 3:17 PM:
Yep you guys got it right. There are two states for the liking of an article... either you can like it (you see the button) or you can't like it (you see the blue check). Since you can't like your own articles you get the blue check by default. Although that is misleading, that's the reason. I should make it to where that isn't even visible if it is your own article.

Bensen32 replied to elitecodex on July 27, 2014, 4:24 PM:
Yay, I got it right :). It's okay cause sometimes I'm not to sure I like my articles anyways :) I just hope others do

FreyaYuki replied to elitecodex on July 28, 2014, 11:37 AM:
Thanks for clarifying that. I don't mind not being able to like our own articles since I don't do that anyway. Yeah, at first, when I saw the blue check mark, I thought the system automatically liked our own article for us.

But when I submitted my latest article, I realized that wasn't the case at all as the blue check mark was there, but the like count remained zero. It is a good idea to make that check mark invisible.

midastouch wrote on July 27, 2014, 5:52 PM:
that is a very good observation
it goes to show that you are following up
keep seeing between the marks!!!!

FreyaYuki replied to midastouch on July 28, 2014, 11:41 AM:
Thanks. I'm new here, so I'm still learning a lot about Persona Paper as I explore the site, notice its different features, and ask questions about how things work here.

*Notes:
- Image is by pixelbuddha (CC:BY) from Wikimedia Commons
- This was previously published elsewhere

Are You An Elite Liker On Persona Paper?

What makes an elite liker? How can you be classified as an elite liker? Do you think that most, if not all, the people here are actually elite likers?

I think so, or, at least, that’s the impression that I get. Why? It’s because I hardly see any likes on the articles here on Persona Paper.

Maybe it’s largely due to the fact that no one gets paid for likes and you don’t even know who liked your articles, but I’d also like to think that it’s because the members here are more selective of what they like and that no one here just blindly or randomly clicks on the like button.

What about me, you ask? Well, if you must know, I definitely prefer to comment than to like. In fact, I comment much more than I like. Maybe it’s just me, but, to me, the like button isn’t something to just be blindly clicked on or pressed.

If I click the like button on something then, to me, it really means that I like the article enough to click the like button. I guess I just have higher standards when it comes to liking articles. What about you?

Here are some of the comments from this article, back when it used to be posted elsewhere:

SLGarcia wrote on July 31, 2014, 3:30 PM:
I generally read the articles that interest me. If I like it but have nothing to say, I will hit the like button. If I comment on an article I also hit the like button (unless I forget to).

MegL replied to SLGarcia on July 31, 2014, 5:07 PM:
Me too. That was why I asked for a "like" button to be placed at the BOTTOM of the article, so I could like it AFTER reading and wouldn't forget to return to the top. But there didn't seem to be much interest in it.

FreyaYuki replied to SLGarcia on August 1, 2014, 3:16 PM:
I also usually only read articles that interest me. I generally usually leave a comment on the articles that I read. If it's an article about something that interests me or that I find interesting, it's easy enough to think of a relevant comment to post.

LoudMan wrote on July 31, 2014, 4:31 PM:
That word "like" has been forever ruined.

Ruby3881 replied to LoudMan on July 31, 2014, 7:23 PM:
So true! But before anyone blames some writing site, I think we need to recognize the contribution of Facebook to that phenomenon. It seems these days "like" just means "I saw it."

FreyaYuki replied to LoudMan on August 1, 2014, 3:18 PM:
You're welcome. And, yeah, I think that word has become really hyped up and overrated. It's like it has lost all meaning since pretty much everyone just randomly make use of it, all seemingly without thinking about it, as if it doesn't matter if they really like it or not, they still just blindly and randomly click the like button anyway, just because.

BarbRad wrote on July 31, 2014, 5:55 PM:
Automatic liking is a hard habit to break. But I'm starting to break it here. I do think a comment gives better feedback though, since you know what reader actually did or didn't like.

FreyaYuki replied to BarbRad on August 1, 2014, 3:26 PM:
I agree about comments giving the authors better feedback and they also encourage interaction. We don't get paid for likes here so I guess it doesn't matter if people randomly like posts though it seems that no one is doing that here, considering the low like counts. Either way, I still prefer to comment than to like.

paigea wrote on July 31, 2014, 7:11 PM:
Sorry, since the like button doesn't pay the poster and they don't even know I like it, I use it to remind myself I already read an article. They will surely know by my comments whether I liked their article and what my opinion is on any manner of things.

Even if I only clicked like on things I really really liked, it wouldn't indicate that the poster was a good writer or that they had said something particularly well, it would only indicate that I liked it.

FreyaYuki replied to paigea on August 1, 2014, 3:35 PM:
Yeah, since we don't get paid for likes here, it wouldn't really matter if people randomly like articles or not since no one would know anyway. This must be why there's a low like count on the articles here. I hadn't thought of making use of the like button to remind myself that I've already read an article.

For me, what I do is check to see if I've already commented on the article since I almost always comment on articles that I've read so that would serve as an indication that I'd already read that particular article.

Yes, the problem with the like button is that people can have different criteria as to what would get them to click said button (some just randomly click it, others have higher standards, etc) so it couldn't really be a good or reliable way to be able to tell if the article was really well-written or if those likes had been obtained for another reason.

bestwriter wrote on July 31, 2014, 8:05 PM:
I choose what interests me and not because I am an elite liker :) I like less as likes do not pay.

FreyaYuki replied to bestwriter on August 1, 2014, 3:38 PM:
Yeah, likes don't pay here so it must be why there are less likes on the articles here. I also prefer to comment than to like. I mostly read or prefer to read articles that interest me and those are the articles I comment on.

Scorpie wrote on August 2, 2014, 8:26 AM:
People feel good about likes. Why not give it to them?

FreyaYuki replied to Scorpie on August 2, 2014, 4:57 PM:
Some people probably wouldn't mind just randomly going around liking articles. But others would want to have a reason before deciding to click on the like button. People have their own standards and set of criteria as to what would get them to click on the like button.

Others might like because they really like the article or because they agree with what the author has said even if it wasn't written in the best way, etc.

*Notes:
- Image is by pixelbuddha (CC:BY) from Wikimedia Commons
- This was previously published elsewhere