The Fancy Bastard Forum

Posted By: lardboyBasically I thought I'd start this discussion because I wanted to post my idea and hopefully others can join in.
Then of course we could build a club house in Joel's back garden and have summer camps, where all the fancy bastards spend a week sleeping on Joel's Couch.

The original idea, which I never fully executed was donors would get a Fancy Bastard member certificate, A name tag, and some other digital goodies in sort of a membership pack.

while i know some people might not like this idea i say Joel should put ads on the site. if it'll help keep HE alive it's worth it to me.

I'm not opposed to ads.

EDIT: Not that it would matter if I was :)

The only reason I would want to be in Joel's house is to find out if the doorway into his bathroom acts as a portal to another world. One with dinosaurs and aliens battling it out to the death. I mean... Josh has to be doing something while he's in there!

while i agree with yo Arcys, what did that have to do with making money for Joel?

Posted By: Jonny Acewhile i agree with yo Arcys, what did that have to do with making money for Joel?Mal: Well look at this..appears we got her just in the nick of time what does that make us? Zoe: Big Damn Heroes! Mal: Ain't we just.

Joel should make the Watson house a freak show. The bathroom is a portal into hell. We only have two time divisions. Before and after Jeffcoat.

You'd make lots of cash. Do you currently have a Frostillicus?

@ Not Madatory: it is true that linear convo is not required here, but i thought that us FB's could come up with some good ideas for Joel, so i thought we should stay on topic. maybe i'm just being too rigid about it :P

Yeah, I have no idea why I posted that there. Sometimes my brain goes off on tangents, and what eventually is formed has nothing to do with what started it.

The model that Joel is using http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/index.php">is an established one. It's just a matter of driving people towards the light.

Posted By: Jonny Ace@ Not Madatory: it is true that linear convo is not required here, but i thought that us FB's could come up with some good ideas for Joel, so i thought we should stay on topic. maybe i'm just being too rigid about it :PMal: Well look at this..appears we got her just in the nick of time what does that make us? Zoe: Big Damn Heroes! Mal: Ain't we just.

Ads are on the way. Its just a matter of choosing which ones. I cant in good conscience, believe ANYONE responds to Google text ads. Id rather sell sponsorships from companies that the readers would actually enjoy.

Don't forget to let us know if you need anything to be clicked on daily because I would imagine that most of your readers won't even see the ads thanks to firefox and adblock.

Have you listened to Kevin Smiths SModcast?

They have sponsors now and they talk about all kinds of shit that may offend people of the mainstream.

Maybe investigating who sponsors the SModcast may lead to finding people willing to sponsor HE because I imagine one of the problems with finding sponsors is finding people that are ok with the subject matter of the comic and the podcast.

Of course I realise just being Kevin Smith gives him quite a lot of bargaining power and all of the legal and admin sources he has available help.

But you never know every little helps.

two words:

Bake
Sale

Posted By: FrackTrucktwo words:

Bake
Sale

A live podcast-vidcast-simulcast-castcast event. Have it at a bar or something where people can come watch in person and charge $10–15 per head.

Posted By: FrackTrucktwo words:

Bake
Sale

And when it crashes?

Posted By: John DarcAnd when it crashes?

Posted By: Bill

Posted By: John DarcAnd when it crashes?

Take two shots or donate two bucks, of course. A full-fledged Podcast-Vidcast-Simulcast-Castcast Drinking and Donation Game is brewing in the back of my mind. This is going to be sweet."Never hold your farts in. They travel up your spine and into your brain, and that's where you get shitty ideas from." - Unknown

#1. When the inrternetz goes down: Take 1 shot

#2. When Denise says " I hate you guys": Take 1 Shot

#3. When Joel does a voice: Take 1 Shot

#4. When Josh takes his bathroom break: Take 2 Shots

#5. When anyone mentions Eli's poor, and/or Mexican upbringing: Take 2 Shots

#6. When any mentions Josh's sexual orientation: Take 1 Shot

#7. When the Donation Drive is mentioned: Take 1 Shot

#8. When a line from Arrested Development is said: Take 2 Shots

that's all i got for now although i'm sure there's more to come

Posted By: Jonny Ace#1. When the inrternetz goes down: Take 1 shot

#2. When Denise says " I hate you guys": Take 1 Shot

#3. When Joel does a voice: Take 1 Shot

#4. When Josh takes his bathroom break: Take 2 Shots

#5. When anyone mentions Eli's poor, and/or Mexican upbringing: Take 2 Shots

#6. When any mentions Josh's sexual orientation: Take 1 Shot

#7. When the Donation Drive is mentioned: Take 1 Shot

#8. When a line from Arrested Development is said: Take 2 Shots

that's all i got for now although i'm sure there's more to comeMal: Well look at this..appears we got her just in the nick of time what does that make us? Zoe: Big Damn Heroes! Mal: Ain't we just.

Anybody know how to record skype?

Cause I'm thinking Drunk-FB-HEDrinkingGame-podcast-simulcast-skypecast

#11 when the Ending theme is played- take 3 shots (1 for fun, and 2 for the fact you should have stopped a long time ago)

-When something poignant or serious is said, and Eli hits the Vince Guaraldi button, we all drink!

Posted By: Locke Cole117#11 when the Ending theme is played- take 3 shots (1 for fun, and 2 for the fact you should have stopped a long time ago)

Posted By: lardboy

Posted By: Locke Cole117#11 when the Ending theme is played- take 3 shots (1 for fun, and 2 for the fact you should have stopped a long time ago)

With Eli incharge of the sound board we'd all be bolloxed within the first 10 mins with this rule

#12 When Josh giggles, take one shot

#13 When Denise is accused of being racist, take two shots

#14 If this drinking game gets mentioned on-air, finish your drink.

The HE Podcast Drinking and Donation Game now has its own thread. Please head over there and check it out before the live castcast tonight!

<Bill>Updated link(s) to work with new forum URL.</Bill>

For what it's worth, only the top ad is opening in a new tab. People tend to be more likely to click on an ad if it doesn't navigate you away from the page.

Posted By: SeanFor what it's worth, only the top ad is opening in a new tab. People tend to be more likely to click on an ad if it doesn't navigate you away from the page.I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

New idea -

Full length version of Predator the musical or Lolocaust the musical.

First sell them in the store and then on to Broadway!

Posted By: lardboyPredator the musical or Lolocaust the musical.

@Joel:

As far as ads go, I think we're all willing to dedicate the thirty seconds of our days it will take to click them. A few quick questions to help me and the others who don't have any web-vertising knowledge:

What is the limit for the number of times an ad can be clicked per period of time?
Will clicking the same ad on a different page have any effect? (ie - XYZ company's ad is on both the current comic page and the podcast questions page)
Do the ads on a single page rotate out every reload/minute/hour, or are they fairly static?
Anything else you suggest us doing to maximize revenue? We're a pretty flexible bunch.

Posted By: Sean@Joel:

As far as ads go, I think we're all willing to dedicate the thirty seconds of our days it will take to click them. A few quick questions to help me and the others who don't have any web-vertising knowledge:

What is the limit for the number of times an ad can be clicked per period of time?
Will clicking the same ad on a different page have any effect? (ie - XYZ company's ad is on both the current comic page and the podcast questions page)
Do the ads on a single page rotate out every reload/minute/hour, or are they fairly static?
Anything else you suggest us doing to maximize revenue? We're a pretty flexible bunch.I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

Sorry but I have no answers for any of these questions. Project wonderful ads are based on impressions. If you visit the site once a day you are doing all you can. Clicking those ads may encourage the person who bought them to keep buy them in the future but whether or not you want to do it is up to you.

Google ads are based on clicks and impressions and how often they change, and what that means is totally up to Google and totally secret. Also, "click fraud," which is what we are discussing, is against their terms and will get me banned for life... so we aren't actually talking about that at all.

If you like the ads, click them. If they don't appeal to you don't worry about it.

I think Bill should remove any trace of the previous conversation.

What conversation? ;-)