[ksen]

And there is only one way to keep it ad-free!

I believe the nature of the site dictates that it be ad-free. Otherwise it could be construed that JR is using the cut-and-pasted copyrighted material to sell ads. Which, I believe, is a big no-no.

There is fund-raising, which I have nothing against, and then there is common decency. I suppose that back during 9-11-01 we could have gotten a lot of exposure by posting fund-raising requests on the terrorist attack threads. However, I think that would have been highly offensive.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, we still have it really nice here, to not have to deal with ads but once a quarter. It isn't 9-11 now... It is a regular news day. If you notice, most of the news posted here is a tragedy for someone. One ad put on every thread during the drive is better than ads on every page every day, is all I am sayin'.