[Richard]

Okay guys I want to respond to a few things brought up here today.

First off this isn't as much an attempt to get folks to see "ads" as it is to put into place a common nav area across the site. We have various community oriented projects coming down the pipe and we want a common top and left bar for those.

If we really wanted to put ads in, and force folks to see them, we would do as one poster pointed out and just put ads in every third post or so. That's fairly easy to do.

For instance most folks missed that we now have links back to other parts of our site above our press release area, which is something (along with an area to see what is going on with our company) that has been requested by quite a few folks.

Even though we tested this for awhile on our test board we have missed a few items, and you'll see a new version of this setup later tonight. Once we have the version up I think it will be a fairly good compromise between some of the concerns some of you have raised.

Again thanks for the input, we always will endeavor to find common ground between the needs of all of our friends here on the forum.