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IIRC a few years ago CP started buying backfill ads from double-click when they had a shortage of programming related banners to show.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This particular ad is that for a rather controversial Indian politician who is a potential Prime Minister candidate. Showing the ad to Indian members is akin to showing a pro-Obama or pro-Romney banner ad to Americans (back in 2012). I am fairly sure it's a 3rd party service pushing that ad and not CP directly. So I was the one who asked OP to report it here.
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yeah, I know who he is and why so many people have a big problem with him. I was just commenting on where/how I thought it showed up.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Interesting. I would never have thought anyone who did not live in India or at least had an Indian background would know who he is 
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I have a subscription to The Economist, mostly for the quality of it's international news (vs all the MBA/Wall Street content it's best known for). I haven't counted, but I'd guesstimate that at least one article about something from India is generally in at at least every other issue; and "Can anyone stop Narendra Modi?[^]" was last week's cover story.
Outside of that, I saw mention of him recently on another board I frequent where someone else saw an attack article and was asking if he really was that bad, and I think I've seen at least one mention about the upcoming election *somewhere* in the US press in the last few months.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ah, alright.
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That should never happen. We've specifically blocked political ads.
Please ensure you click the X at the top left to report this ad. We can then track it down and block it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Check this screenshot. Clickety[^] Found bunch of off-topic ads.
I was loading random CP pages randomly for last 20-30 mins for you to get those ads. I have reported all those ads except that lipstick ad because there's no option & that's a video ad. And check the red circle inside image, I think that could help you on some way.
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In the Forum, when you click Bookmark with Fluid Layout active, you get an icon that appears lower and behind some other icons.
I have uploaded an image of this Here[^], and I have replicated the glitch on both FireFox and Chrome (Up to date as of 04-18-2014).
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Thanks for the report. All fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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how come it's just a little head now?
it was a Bob of some kind for over a decade!
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That is something active for some months. There are new cathegories for the users.
The little head is for the people that just registered.
The other ones you can see them here[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: The little head is for the people that just registered.
my CP ID is 42. i think i joined the day the site started. maybe the second day.
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In that case, I would expect that you simply haven't "done enough" to merit being classified in one of the other "icon categories".
I am in no way trying to say that you have done nothing since the site was created, so please, take no offence to that, but the "new" icons are specific to different things, and I would guess that is the reason.
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Oh, and I think what Nelek meant by "just registered" was that that is all they did, not that they had done it recently.
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Zachery Hysong wrote: what Nelek meant by "just registered" was that that is all they did,
that might be true.
though it's not true that all i did was register. but, i guess what i did to get my old Bob icon isn't considered worthy any more.
so sad.
(ok look, i have a Bob now! the world is right again!)
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As I am pretty new here. Can you tell me what the Bob icon was for?
What did you do to get it?
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i think i got it because i bought a copy of VS 2002 through CP (they were a reseller). i had a 'supporter' icon, IIRC.
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Ah, well you got it back now! YAY!
Apparently there is no Supporter Icon anymore, the closest thing to it seems to be the Premium, which I have because I have a Paid Account in ::Workspaces.
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As Zachery said, with "just registered" I was not meaning the time, I was meaning the content (a.k.a. "only" registered).
Now that you have filled your profile, you have the "professional" bob with the suit.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: As Zachery said, with "just registered" I was not meaning the time, I was meaning the content (a.k.a. "only" registered).
yep. sorry about the misunderstanding.
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No problem, enjoy your suit-dressed bob (or future improvements) 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The supporter Icon was deprecated several months ago - and about 10 years too late.
The original supporter icon (which you earned back in - what was it? - 2003? - was only meant to be an annual thing. We never got around to deactivating them until this year.
However, you now have a nice suit on. It's a little small, but that's the style with the kinds these days...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Phew![^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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