[allenwr]

I would like a minute to throw in my two cents.

Ads have their pros and cons, but those are irrelevant. Being as it may, the off-topic section gets the most views on the forums; so for the off-topic section only, I believe it would be best to have the ad section after the first post in each thread here. Or just two make it a little bit more ad-friendly, have the ads after the first post of each page. I do not think that it would be in the best interest of other sub-forums to have the first post add built-in.

For ad types, I do not personally like picture ads, but to keep these projects alive, I feel that they are acceptable. I do not think that animated/flashy ads would be as accepted as a standard image.

The redirect page could also stand to have an ad located beneath the 'click here' link on that/those page(s).

I do hope my idea's are acceptable or used to help form a final plan.