Have you seen me? More like a 4x8!
Yeah, it was touching, I felt so loved.
Your post made me go check my old email that I had connected to Chow, no email from Marcella missing me or begging me to return. 
Luckily Iām use to not feeling loved.
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I would check my email but I blocked sender the whole domainā¦
aaaah. luvā the peace & quiet
She hasnāt invited me back. I was suspended (only once) last May, AFTER Iād already told them I quit, I never attempted to be reinstated.
Chowhound seems to be MIA today, Internal server error.
Implosion?
Nah, itās back. I thought it might have been euthanized.
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I was astonished at the Teamās response to a question yesterday, did they not have a way to test advertisements for quality and safety before allowing them to appear in the production system. They donāt. They rely on user feedback to flag inappropriate or dangerous ads. Which the users might do after theyāve been infected with malware or invisible tracking cookies. Boggling.
whatās to astonish about?
a website signs up for an āad serviceā - which pays them per view/click/whatever.
the ad service āserverā dishes up content based on whatever - lots of criteria available.
malware cretins submit an ad to run; after it starts running they modify the ad to include malware/redirects/everythingandanythingnastyyoucanthinkof.
the website owner/management does not control which specific things appear on their website. rather most of the time they donāt care - they only care about the size of the click check they get every week/month.
clicking on any adware in any forum/site is an invitation for disaster.
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It seams reasonable that a company should have a test bed to run the ads on before theyāre pushed live, just as they should use a test system to vet software modifications before pushing them live. This wouldnāt solve the problem of post-submission alterations. The poster in that thread had a problem with pop-up ads in mobile devices, taking over the whole screen on top of CH content. A script in that pop-up could do real damage without the user having to do anything at all, and of course thereās the issue of tracking cookies.
I agree that clicking on any adware could be disastrous. But the passive nature of their ad protocols, the pop-ups, makes clicking unnecessary. Also, itās too easy to accidentally tap when youāre trying to scroll past an inline ad, an accidental click.
They have always told us that they have had no way to vet ads before they post and until they get complaints ever since the changeover from discussion site to click bait.
They could do it if they wanted to.
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The idea that they would pay to have people screen all ads is pretty far-fetched. Itās been my observation that they can, however, set certain criteria with the ad service and that they do follow up on user complaints.
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dangerous ads? That is not good.
The mods have not been given the tools to do it. Management has no intention of slowing ad revenue to the site.
No Banana Board this year.
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I donāt look at whoās still posting but I wonder if a lot of the people with senses of humor left.
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Hi, Cath:
I wonder if Steve, a/k/a āNothingās Really Changedā, is still there. Oh, wait, heās still carrying their water in the humor that made him famous: http://www.chowhound.com/post/based-latest-observation-development-site-decimated-1034276
I confess I have been responding to some threads there. My sense is that even the greybeards who stayed loyal to CH arenāt posting new threadsāthey just respond to the newbs who canāt/wonāt use the search function.
Another funny thing thatās happening is that many threads there go seriously OTāas in, āHey, this profiteroles thread is great, anyone have a tajine?ā I find this deliciously ironic, given CHās prior merciless pursuit and removal of ANY OT subject, humorous aside or tangential reference. Either no oneās following their North Korean-style snitching protocol, or CH has decided a click is just a click after all.
The King Is Dead. Long Live the King!
Aloha,
Kaleo
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Kaleo, heās one of the original as heāll tell you, back when you could have a screen name of Steve. We actually met him for lunch in DC a few years ago. (Arguably one of the best Ethiopian places there.) Obviously heās stuck in the past, unable to move on. I see Melanie Wong is still there.
