JAGeX posted a message early this morning (about 1:30 AM Pacific Time) describing the purchase of buying Runescape Gold as supporting sweatshops, and encouraged their players to stay away from any websites that allow such advertisement to take place.

RSHumor.net is one of the first websites willing to comply with this requirement. If JAGeX’s belief that these sweatshops do in fact exist than it’s our responsibility to do what we can. Advertisements on our network of websites will soon be heavily scrutinized for these advertisements and we will take action to remove or prevent these (However it’s very early in the morning, and I’m writing this as I’m falling asleep on my desk on top of my ACT Prep Book, so it will have to wait until tomorrow morning).
We would like however for each of you to think about this. Most large websites cannot afford to have no advertising.

The advertising that JAGeX runs on their website you have to have millions of page views per month to get accepted into. Unfortunately smaller operations don’t have such luxury. You’ll note they also have problems with their advertisements, and such instances are actually in various screenshots on our main site (Selling of Viagra, etc). Any advertising system in which the person isn’t directly involved in will have flaws. JAGeX needs to work more closely with Google to see that this problem is ended from their end, not ours. JAGeX has far greater control over their trademarks and copyrights than we do as individuals, and in fact they already prevent people from using the word “Runescape” in ads, but that doesn’t stop them, so they need to look a little more closely at what they are doing.

Without any advertisements we could not afford to keep the site up and running, and I believe we share the sentiment with many other Runescape websites (large and small). We have exorbitant bandwidth and server costs on a monthly basis, and unlike JAGeX we don’t have a couple million dollars flowing into our bank accounts monthly to support our hobbies, joys, and the things we’ve spent many hundreds of hours working on (websites).

We hope to have a replacement in place within a couple of days so that RSHumor doesn’t cease to exist. We would never want any of our users to get banned because of a breach of game rules, so we’re doing what we can to protect you. If JAGeX feels like bankrolling the site I’m sure we can come to some sort of an arrangement in which we have no advertising, but as we see that is not likely to happen, we ask for your patience and cooperation over the coming hours and days so that we may mend any loose ends, and fix what needs to be fixed.

Much Respect && Much Love,
Travis && Linda

Well — really I suppose it isn’t missing, it just hasn’t been “found” yet. In case you have no idea what I’m referring too, the 2000th image that has yet to be added to RSHumor (Because it hasn’t been submitted yet).

The person that submits the 2000th image (to be accepted (NO CRAPPY PICTURES!!!!)) will receive a prize of 2,000,000 GP (2M GP). The stats page is going to be disabled, you won’t know when you submit your image, and you won’t know when or if it has already been submitted. Winner will be posted — eventually.

Best of luck to everyone. We might think of some other addition to the prize pool, for runners up…Start pouring in the images now.

Winner will be determined by the name placed in the “Name” box when said image is submitted. Contest is void where prohibited, images submitted by persons other than the owner of the image will be discarded and or voided. RSHumor.Net employees and their families are ineligible to win. Don’t cheat. We can see all.

Have fun

–Travis and Linda

Greetings one and all!

Many of you may have noticed the hours of downtime tomorrow morning, this was caused (in part) by our server taking a hit with so many queries at one time. Last night at around 10 PM PST we pushed the new version of the site live in hopes of solving this problem. Load times should be cut in half, and 70k queries per day should be reduced from the server.

The technology behind this update is amazing and I’m very pleased with it. I have to run to work now — but there will be an update this evening, how large? No clue.

Take care,

Travis

Whew, it has been a rather busy week!

This week will officially…well…I guess NEXT week will officially ring in the first months of summer break and we hope to get some cool things a-float in that time.

Today a bunch of images (My darling Linda lost count so I’ll just say a lot) were approved and she also made some more changes to the upload page which will be highlighted in a post she will make sometime this weekend.

And now for the fun stuff! We’re working on implementing a few things within … well I can get lazy so who knows how soon it will be out but yes…Image Searching! This feature will allow you to search a “topic / description” or “submitter” of any image in our database (approved) and will show you more information about that image.

And of course with the above feature, it only makes sense to make the description and author of each image public (Maybe when you hover over the image)?…The details are in the works however so nothing has been settled upon.

For you shy people that I know read this blog because I have the stats to prove it! (I wuv you all) You are allowed to comment on the website, or on this blog or whatever. :shifty:.

Edit: Linda was supposed to make her post AFTER this one, not BEFORE *growls* so scroll down to read her changes and disreguard some of the things I said heh.