[darkpuppet]

Ideally, I would rather keep advertising for people more vested in our community, but advertisers never really materialized.. and when we had sponsors, I never saw a penny, and they thought they owned the site.

*ahem*

so altruism aside, I went with the (hopefully) least obtrusive alternative, and the site has seen more in the last day than it's seen in the past 5 years ($0.69!!!)... it was the right thing to do for the site as we aim to reduce costs and increase giveback to the community.

Anyways.. let me know if you're having troubles with the new ads -- your browsing experience is paramount.