Member of the Month

theabortionator
April, 2025

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Mammoth drop-down ad

profile picture
00000000
Posts: 11075 - Karma: 82,508
Yes, we know -- we're working on fixing it and I'll keep everyone posted in this thread.
12 years ago
41 7
profile picture
Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22738 - Karma: 77,008
ITS MY FAULT I"M SORRY!
12 years ago
5 0
profile picture
FuckAllOfYou
Posts: 3864 - Karma: 2,518
thanks. it's fucking annoying. Appreciate you guys being on top of it!
12 years ago
5 0
profile picture
00000000
Posts: 11075 - Karma: 82,508
Should be good to go. Let me know if anyone has issues!
12 years ago
1 0
profile picture
.nasty
Posts: 10598 - Karma: 11,396
does the top bar really need to get bigger when you mouse over it? It's not revealing any additional information, just getting in the way every time I go to click on the URL bar.
12 years ago
1 0
profile picture
Childstar.
Posts: 1947 - Karma: 2,213
SAVE ME FROM THIS THING....
12 years ago
1 0
profile picture
Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22738 - Karma: 77,008
Advertisers like max real-estate and things that you can interact with.

Just look at it this way - Mammoth is in a massive way supporting the site with this campaign. Do your best to make peace with it, and perhaps even consider entering what they're promoting. You can win trips to mammoth afterall... and that place does most certainly not suck.
12 years ago
1 1
profile picture
skodeo7
Posts: 14950 - Karma: 9,263
I love Mammoth but it really bugs me. It moves all content and site navigation halfway down the page, it's totally absurd. It's really easy to accidentally mouse-over.
12 years ago
1 0
profile picture
roddy116
Posts: 10656 - Karma: 7,741
still there
12 years ago
0 0
profile picture
MacMahoooon
Posts: 9009 - Karma: 3,305
I haven't accidentally hit it more than 2 or 3 times. How are you navigating that it is more in the way? Always looking to improve these things
12 years ago
0 0
profile picture
MacMahoooon
Posts: 9009 - Karma: 3,305
Quick tip: If once the loads you can hit the down arrow once or twice quick or one click of a scroll wheel on a mouse and it moves the page down far enough that you can't trigger the dropdown
12 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22738 - Karma: 77,008
Yeah its going to be there for a bit, as its part of a fat sponsorship package that Mammoth has done with Newschoolers.

What we had it doing at the beginning by accident was always expanding when you moused over any content on the site. That is no good.
12 years ago
0 0
profile picture
roddy116
Posts: 10656 - Karma: 7,741
Click for larger image
12 years ago
7 1
profile picture
skodeo7
Posts: 14950 - Karma: 9,263
Anyone that's using tabbed browsing is bound to glide over it. Again, I'm very stoked Mammoth is supporting the site but this is a bit intense.
12 years ago
3 0
profile picture
eheath
Posts: 61949 - Karma: 126,666
When i switch back from another tab i hit it every time. I use the top bar alot for nav too and overshoot and have to come back down then risk overshooting again.

mammoth is tight but this is by far one of the most annoying ads
12 years ago
1 0
profile picture
2_fadez
Posts: 7780 - Karma: 4,183
Click for larger image
12 years ago
1 0
profile picture
onenerdykid
Posts: 6744 - Karma: 11,760
So true... using tabs makes this really annoying. Stoked they are helping out, but it's not ideal
12 years ago
1 0
profile picture
SFBv420.0
Posts: 2539 - Karma: 3,126
dear mammoth if you wanted to spend a lot of $$$$$ annoying the fucks out of people and insuring
I won't be visiting again this season
mission accomplished
12 years ago
0 4
profile picture
.nasty
Posts: 10598 - Karma: 11,396
well still, I'm sure there's a far better way that isn't annoying as shit...
12 years ago
1 0
profile picture
theabortionator
Posts: 52605 - Karma: 174,397
I knew there had to be a thread. I've been dealing with it trying to ignore it the past couple days.


If you move the mouse up to click your profile/thread, or to click any of the navigational stuff it's just BOOM MAMMOTH STORIES.

I've never been to mammonth, they've been building sick parks forever but that's the extent of my story. Not worth sharing regardless of how long that sits at the top.
12 years ago
6 0
profile picture
TimRiley
Posts: 1873 - Karma: 1,327
The way this ad works is extremely annoying to say the least..
12 years ago
1 0
profile picture
J.D.
Posts: 21362 - Karma: 5,145

All of this is accurate but when you sit back and think about it it's really not that annoying. Just makes you take an extra second to do whatever it was you were going to do. I was initially going to bitch about it, but then I reconsidered. As long as we don't have ads auto-playing video or audio, I'm okay.

12 years ago
1 0
profile picture
cornholio
Posts: 3952 - Karma: 3,057
+1 to the down with mammoth campaign

booooo
12 years ago
0 0
profile picture
theabortionator
Posts: 52605 - Karma: 174,397
tabasco ruins everything it touches
12 years ago
0 0
All times are Eastern (-4); Currently it's 7:54PM