Dawn of the Geeks

It looks like a little less than half of the visitors to the front page don’t have Javascript enabled and therefore, aren’t seeing the ads. The sections that would be the easiest to monitor are the ringtones, drivers, etc where the entire site runs off of a single file. The Wiki and Blog are the same way. Unfortuntely autoblocking would result in search engines being blocked as well. With the drivers and ringtones however, bots shouldn’t be downloading the files anyway. So it would be trivial to simply block the downloading of files if Javascript isn’t enabled but allow visitors to browse all they want.

I think viewing ads in exchange for being able to download for free files/ringtones you want is a fair trade. I think I’ll wait til next week at least before doing anything. Starting with the ringtones, etc would be a good way to work out all the kinks before trying implement such a system with the Wiki or other sections. The first step would be to simply implement the check, see what the ratio is and then consider taking any action.