The nice, low key, unobtrusive ads running down the left nav column and the minimal gif banner in the heading are fine. But the latest gizmo, wizbang, 'everyone else is doing it' Flash just becomes noise and drives folks like me away. One example is that I used to search via Yahoo several years ago, and now I am a google fanatic.
I am not saying that Shrapnel has become a sudden demon because they stuck a Flash ad on the forums, I just love this place so much that I really hate to see it go the Flash route.
Along a similar vein, remember when flashing text was all the rage? Pretty soon all the text is flashing and trying to get your attention and it just becomes an obscene noise.
Uh, I was ranting again wasn't I? Sorry about that. Thanks for listening anyway.
