How annoying. >.=.>

Some people just want the world to go SPEWWWF

Also your G-ratedness is admirable to no end ;_;

Admirable? Really? Hmm. I certainly don't do it to be or seem morally superior, and I don't judge those who set their levels differently. Nor do I judge those who choose to view mature/adult themed pieces. There are clearly enough of them to justify over 1/3 of all submissions being set adult on this site. I do sometimes raise the fact that my account is set this way, but mostly it's to counter the presumption that everyone sees everything, and to highlight the practical implications of such an assumption (the journal above is a case-in-point).

Heck, sometimes I buy wing-it or artistic-freedom commissions that come out more adult than I'd have preferred, but that doesn't bother me much (though I won't repost such things). And in streams, if a piece gets more adult than I care for (or if I have company in the house), I can always just pause it and wait. My main computer is (a) shared in the household, and (b) plainly visible to the entire livingroom (see profile pic), so in the risk analysis, it's way better to keep FA set to GA for me.

Ultimately, my G-preference is not just my own prudeness, but also a matter of practicality, despite it sometimes being an obstacle. In any case, for me to pass any judgement on those who actively look at such things or buy such things would be hypocritical in my case. I know that's not really what you were suggesting, but I wanted to speak to it anyway.

Wait. Wut? There's a Rule 34 of Rooth somewhere? Facebook or it isn't true!

That's either a bait and switch or epic fail.

More the latter I think. See my response to Mekolai below.

I think a lot of FA ads are poorly conceived. So many have simple spelling mistakes, advertise comics or books but give no idea as of the plot, or fail to even state what is being advertised.

That really is terrible :( I'm not GA only but even I feel like thats a really bad thing to pull. Maybe it was a mistake on whoever did the ad.... one can hope anyway that it wasn't bait/switch :C

I see it less as "bait-and-switch", which makes it seem intentionally mischievous, but more as "dumb advertising practice".

If a primarily adult-oriented artist wants to advertise using a SFW ad, that's perfectly fine by me, but at least make it racy or mention that the products are adult-oriented, so that the viewers attracted to such art are more likely to click on that link. That's your target audience, you want to get their attention with the money you're spending on advertising. So showing beautiful faces and backgrounds with "now open" text scrolling to advertise smut just seems like poor design to me.

That sounds about right :) I would prefer to see it as the latter, definitely. Do wish that they would preview the ads and any linking to insure that the viewer is going to the right place. There could be youngsters out there abiding by the age rule and can't view adult rated images as well.

Hmm, I'm not sure I'd trust the admins with such a review process. Though I might trust them to say, "Hey, dude, you have great smut; might want to mention that in your ad." ;)

I'd be bothered by it, due to being one of those 5 that are GA-only, but i gave up on clicking the ads when i kept getting redirection script errors.

... and also, on most machines, adblock.

Weird, I never got an error. o.O

I use ABP where I can, but I (eventually) configured it to specifically permit FA ads. Artists spend money on them to draw in customers, and I am a huge supporter of artists, so it seemed antithetical for me to block such ads. It's also dangerous for me, as the ads grow my watch list, which is already too big to manage. >.>

Well, they use a redirector that counts the clicks, it seems, and it often got stuck in a redirect loop that led nowhere. It might have been fixed, i haven't really clicked ads in a long while.

And on my personal machines, yes, i did add an exception, mostly because artist-y friends like to know if their ads are showing up. But i'm often connecting from random machines at work or elsewhere, so they don't have the FA exception added.

Ahh, I see. That makes sense.

Or the ad for a MMORPG Kickstarter that was already stopped prematurely .
Also here on FA.

Oy. That's frustrating. I think i'll make a journal post of my own about it.