What's all this Banner stuff?

[justin_willey]

Viewing questions I see bars saying

BANNER high - customize this

and similar. Following the link gives a "page not found" error

Can I turn these off?

[graeme_perrow · Accepted solution]

Those are for advertising; presumably Breck can add whatever advertising or other messages he wants in those spaces. Once you're over 200 rep, some of the banners will vanish.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The banner that's shown with the questions will disappear to be precise. The sidebars remain after 200 rep if this follows the same layout as StackOverflow.

[reimer_pods]

The highly estimated administrator of this site will presumably communicate that
a) the SE software is still beta (see the disclaimer banner [SQLA is in BETA]) and
b) it will surely get better (but that requires time and energy).
So we better have patience 😉

OK, I must admit I was tempted into trying to "Customize this" myself, to no avail ...

[justin_willey]

As Graeme predicted, the banner messages have gone away now that I have gained some more (undeserved) "reputation". The sidebar also seems to have gone.

Thanks for the explanations.

[Breck_Carter]

Yeah, they're ugly, and so's the administrator! ( lazy, too 🙂