Ads, Seriously?

[Armin]

We don't have animated profile pics, because they're annoying.

We don't have pics in sigs, because they're annoying.

But now we have ads in the forums, including animated ones. What? Annoying.

I don't want to turn off images in the forums, because the missing spots are also annoying. I also like seeing the avatars. But the new ads are reaaally annoying me, already.

On my laptop, I already dislike coming to the forums because I lose so much space to the GIANT Steve Jackson Games nav bar at the top. The new ad means I lose a liiiitttle bit more space off the top. May not seem like much to you, but annoying to me.

If you're gonna pollute the place with ads, could we please have the smaller nav bar used in various other places on SJGames, and put the ad outside of the forum block?

(By the way, I think the integration of the ads into the forums is nicely done. Good job there. I just find it rather distracting having that brightly colored, blinking/moving thing constantly drawing my eyes upward.)

Thanks,

Armin