And the worst pop up award goes to:

Coasterbuzz.com!

Out of all of the roller coaster websites that I visit, coasterbuzz is the worst when it comes to pop ups.

Congrats! :)

If you dont like the pop ups then "Join the Club"!

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My website - Zero G Thrills

Then get a membership or go to another site....

And the award for most pointless post goes to...

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Formally Suspended Andrew, proud member since May 2001.

The award for guy who most quickly got on Jeff's bad side is....

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A day is a drop of water in the ocean of eternity. A week is seven drops.

I dont mind the ads at all. In a bout 2 weeks they will be gone!(joined the club Had to snail mail it though)

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Waiting for the season to start.
Visit History of PKI!

Just a joke, don't get all worried about it. I just logged on and got a maze of pop ups on this site, took me about 3 minutes to chase em all down and close them. No harm intended, but I knew I would rile a couple of you up by this, so I guess its partially entertaining as well. :)

Don't take these things to seriously guys, really.

Damn, pop-up threads are becoming more plentiful than actual coaster threads...

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Sometimes I wonder whether Vekoma would be better off just changing their name...
Never Has Gravity Been So Uplifting.

If it took you three minutes then you have something else on your system making them.

You're welcome to join the club and the ads will go away, otherwise I'll accept a thank you for your ad-viewing patronage to pay for the bandwidth used in serving the site to you.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
"The world rotates to The Ultra-Heavy Beat!" - KMFDM

I'd definitely have to say that CoasterBuzz looks good without ads and with this blue theme going :)

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Tommy Penner - YoYoBaybeeMan
The Beginning, The Past, The Present, The Future

Try changing browsers. All I get is a pop-under once in a great while. Oh, and that damnable Javascript box that comes up on the first page I visit ever since I upgraded the browser to v7. That one is annoying 'cause there is no way to make it go away, but at least it only appears on an index page. And it doesn't show up at all in Safari.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Try using Mozilla. I use it and I never get a single pop-up ad.

RideMan, you're a MacHead? I'm switching as soon as I get enough money to buy a new computer.

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SFNE Central v4- Online Six Flags New England Resource
CBuzzer since September 2001 with a few bumps along the way. :)

Good for you, SFNE Freak :)

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James Draeger
-Official Mac fanboy of CB

Well said Jeff....

I can't say I am terribly bothered by pop ups, only the ones that pop up another box once you close it and thats what I got. I ran Ad-Aware right after it happenend and I didnt seem to have anything else on my system, perhaps it was just a freak accident.

I do hope I get to join the club soon, I don't have alot of money to spend on all of my hobbies, but sooner or later, I plan on it :).

Also, thanks to everyone else for the suggestions.... together, we can save many generations from the notorious pop up evils that have plauged our once friendly internet :).

Those notorious pop up evils that plague our once friendly internet also keep most sites running. Are they that big of a deal? I mean really!

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If at first don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Well there was this one add that had the devil on it and said something like "if you don't click then you'll go to hell" (mabye not those exact words but i definantly remember the "Go to Hell" part..... i was very surprised and offended by such a negative pop-up...... has anyone else seen this one???

You were probably on another site too? Or else there's something on your computer. I highly doubt Jeff would allow that...

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If at first don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

No.... I was in the media center at my high school and only one server can be opened at a time so it must have been from this site.... it was kinda embarrassing because the librian was talking to me at around the same moment....

I tried an experiment before I left work tonight.

On my own machine, I went to www.coasterbuzz.com, then to the news page, then to the forums page, then to the general forum, then into the top forum on the list.

When I did that using Opera 7, I got a pop-under when I first visited the site, and a Javascript box that I could not close on the first page.

I tried Mozilla, with much the same result.

I tried IE 5.5 and got a JavaScript error on every single page.

I tried another computer, using Netscape 4.7 and IE 5.5. Netscape worked, but was dog slow. IE 5.5 was slower, and in addition to the pop-under, I got a pop-up on every page I opened.

I tried another computer, using Netscape 6.2. I got one pop-under, and didn't even get the annoying Javascript box.

On that machine I also tried IE 6.0. I got the pop-under. I got the dancing JavaScript box. The usual stamp ads were still on the page, but they were blinking, shaking, and had generally gone into epileptic fits. I got a gyrating pop-up on every page, and a dancing JavaScript box on most pages.

Add to that the fact that IE 6 was the slowest of all the browsers I tried (this was on a quad-T1 at 6:30 on a Friday night, so the campus traffic should have been pretty light) and I can't understand why anybody would want to use it.

At home I use Safari (using it right now, in fact...) and I get a single pop-under when I enter the site, and no pop-ups at all.

There you have it...MSIE 6 is apparently the root of all web-site evil.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

MSIE? How 'bout just MS? ;)

jimmybob, who says he's never had trouble with IE 6 and his club membership :)

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Jeff's Stalker
My K'Nex Coasters
Spring has arrived in Ohio...the Orange Barrels are blooming
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