QUOTE (noob)Actually YOU can avoid ads. It's just that your denying it. All you have to do is click SKIP THIS AD. Surprisingly, that'll come up a split second before the images.
There have been many cases where I went to the main page, and then walked away for a minute, and came back to find one of the ads up. And not everyone is quick with their mouse, nor are they EXPECTING 'inappropriate' content to be advertised. Maybe they want to see what the ad is before closing it?
QUOTE (noob)That image is cleaner than most of the anime shown where the characters are half naked.
Are you saying that a 13 year old who's viewing all these anime series in which characters are half naked 50% of the time should worry about coming across an ad (that will probably happen to a few small proportion of the ftv population) in which the subject is not even half naked?
Maybe the anime YOU watch is full of naked characters, but not for all of us. The majority of the anime I watch has no nudity, and has very little ecchi. This argument always pisses me off, b/c it's like my parents used to claim that anime is just animated porn. The argument is so blind and prejudiced that it does not stand as a point except to show one's ignorance of the truth.
QUOTE (noob)Lets say, for the sake of argument, that yeah the parents were stupid enough to think that's a porn site--- after all THAT IS what you're trying to IMPLY; do you think that they'd miss the OTHER half of page in which the content I've typed up exists? NOW DO YOU?---- Come on, you gotta be reasonable. More than 90% of the movies available to children of that age get to see more than that picture.
If most parents are anything like mine; then no, they wont bother to read the other half of the page, they'll just jump to a conclusion until you can prove otherwise. No insult intended, but most younger kids wont think to say "okay, read the whole page and tell me if it sounds like porn". Also, saying that "more than 90% of the movies available to children that age..." falls into the same category of my previous comment. All these forms of media can be avoided if you want to - and even if the movies YOU watch are like that, it doesn't mean that everyone watches movies with content of that sort.
QUOTE (noob)Going back at the ecchi thread; it's existence is undeniable. I know a group of people who kept on clicking on it by accident, that's equivalent to ads poppin up every now and then.
That still doesn't negate the fact that they had to click on that specific link to bring up that specific content [reference to ecchi pics threads]. Clicking on the FTV main page should not bring you to a "guess who" of inappropriate [looking] ads. The two are not equivalent.
QUOTE (noob)All this aside, you have got to open your mind, HAS ANY OF YOU ever clicked on that "porn, flith, sick.." ad we had earlier on this year? EVERYTIME I clicked on it, I was redirected to University of Phoenix's website. That's 10 out of 10 times. Or that "WARNING DO NOT CLICK HERE." which redirected me to a bunch of websites, I know one of them was about a website which sold books--- that itself was pretty scary to me, but other than that, no nothing.
It doesn't matter what the ad links you to. If the ad has material that is deemed inappropriate for the younger audience - when FTV claims to be at least relatively child friendly - the ads should not be displayed. Having a pic of a nude woman is having a pic of a nude woman, even if it links you to Barnes&Noble. The ad is inappropriate regardless of what is being advertised.