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complete lack of taste

• Steve442 710 Posts

  Sat, Dec 22 2012 5:18 AM

  SHRUDE:

  Keep in mind this isnt physically posted by WGT 

  They sell the space, the advertisers, fill the content.

  This will also be a targeted ad based on your own personal browsing history.

• chris5214 1,937 Posts

  Sat, Dec 22 2012 6:46 AM

  Steve442:

   

  This will also be a targeted ad based on your own personal browsing history.

  ah, that explains all the hot chicks in teeny bikinis on my profile page .. rock on WGT .. :)

• SamanthaWho 3,403 Posts

  Sat, Dec 22 2012 7:22 AM

  SHRUDE:

  Keep in mind this isnt physically posted by WGT 

  They sell the space, the advertisers, fill the content.

  while that is true, WGT i'm sure can or does set guidelines on ads. If they don't, they need to. my dad was murdered? wow. whats the next one? my daughter was raped? is that ok also? this needs to be fixed. 

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Sat, Dec 22 2012 8:57 AM

  SamanthaWho:

  my dad was murdered? wow. whats the next one? my daughter was raped? is that ok also?

  None of these is "ok", and the ad goes against one of them. The President said so, they say so. Anything wrong in the latter?

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Sat, Dec 22 2012 9:15 AM

  That's def tasteless. I'll let our engineers known asap.

  sorry about that, but shrude is right, we have no control over those ad's, but we should be able to manually remove it.

  -wgticon

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Sat, Dec 22 2012 9:43 AM

  WGTicon:

  That's def tasteless.

  Your opinion - why?

  There's ads on the road against speeding, reminding of dead ppl due to accidents - tasteless?

  there's ads against unprotected s.. activities, reminding of fatalities due to AIDS and veneral deseases - tasteless?

  And, don't let me think of the dozens of "casualties" shown in movies on TV daily.

  Now there's an ad against unlawful weapons, reminding of ppl killed in crimes.

  Tasteless?

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sat, Dec 22 2012 10:00 AM

  alosso:

  Tasteless?

  Extremely. In case you've been living under a rock, the US is in mourning for 20 children and 6 adults that were gunned down by a douchebag with a machine gun. The 6 adults were all parents.

• mrcaddie 2,429 Posts

  Sat, Dec 22 2012 10:30 AM

  YankeeJim:

  The 6 adults were all parents.

  No they were not, get your facts straight please.

  Here is Victoria Soto's obituary, one of the teachers killed.....she has no children.

  http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newstimes/obituary.aspx?n=victoria-soto&pid=161773156#fbLoggedOut

  I gave you a pass on the whole "it's just water" remark during the hurricane, but I absolutely will not allow you to spread things that are not true when it comes to this story!

  I respect you as part of this community and all the contributions you have made.....but I draw the line here!

  MC

   

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Sat, Dec 22 2012 11:12 AM

  YankeeJim:

  alosso:

  Tasteless?

  Extremely. In case you've been living under a rock, the US is in mourning for 20 children and 6 adults that were gunned down by a douchebag with a machine gun.

  No reason to become personal Jim. I regret that you don't answer to my arguments.

   

  I understand that you take it as tasteless to break into such mourning.

  Be sure that I mourne with the victims of this and any other crime and with their families.

  Alas, it's not the first and not the second time that such a tragedy happened in a school, and the total number of shotgun killings in your country (30 * 365 days by a number of 2005 that I found) puts it into a shockingly level relation to the society's reality.

  Therefore and IMHO, it would be of no use to postpone such ad. May I say, it's beyond matters of respect with the mourning families?

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sat, Dec 22 2012 11:48 AM

  mrcaddie:

  Here is Victoria Soto's obituary, one of the teachers killed.....she has no children.

  Forgive me for taking poetic liberty. They all considered  those kids their children. Nice of you to give me a pass on the water remark, too. That was generous of you. Maybe you should do the same for the residents that live there and didn't evacuate for the same frame of mind and are now looking for help.

  And as long as you insist on dragging up that stuff, maybe you should qualify it as having been said before the extremely unusual turn of events that caught a lot of people by surprise, not to mention me. And there were no assault rifles involved, either. Great relate.

  @Alosso-There was nothing personal there.