Please tell me there is a way to disable this, Robin? Why on earth should I be wasting your bandwidth and my screen space every time I open a thread now to get a full bar of ads for crap that I have no interest in?! If I want to buy a pin or parts, I'l go to the marketplace section. I don't need even MORE clutter on each page. Very disappointed by this change, and frankly, if it's intended to be permanent, and there's no user option to disable it, I won't be donating to Pinside as long as it's in place. We're already being charged fees for selling things on the marketplace, I really don't have any intention of buying much, if ANYTHING, off the marketplace, so I'm comfortable making my contribution to the site through a donation from my account and my wife's account.

Hell, give me a one time 5 buck fee to remove this stupid feature and I'll probably pay it. But I'm NOT looking at these ads all day long! >_<

*edit* Removed because proven wrong below.

No. I'm not going to be blackmailed into a recurring fee to not be annoyed by poor interface design. I suggested what it would be worth to me to remove them from my sight...5 bucks is my tolerance limit for being coerced on things like this. 30 bucks recurring? Not going to happen, and I won't use the other + features.

On the flipside, I suppose I could just not donate from my wife's account anymore and balance it out that way if this will be the only way to remove these.

Put them at the BOTTOM of the page for all I care, but I'm not going to just spur of the moment decide to buy a pin from Pittsburgh just because someone shoves the ad in my face!

Reason I say recurring is because if you don't donate the same or more after the year is up, you'd lose access to those features...

But anyways, seems irrelevant from above post. Hell, I will probably kick in an extra 10 bucks today just because this IS able to be disabled already. It's not like such intrusive things to be turned on by default. Pinside is typically one of the VERY VERY few places where interface design is done well, and to me, these ads are just an eyesore where they are at. Ugh! Thanks for the response and explanation, Forceflow.

*edit* Or maybe I won't kick in 10 bucks, since apparently this DOES require +, which I have no interest in paying for since I don't need ANY of the other features of it.

I dunno, how exactly is your post not trolling? It's all a matter of opinion, right? You're going to have to do a lot better than just dismissing an opinion out of hand to make a point.

I think they should be at the bottom of the PAGE, not stuck between the posts and reply box. I had half a thought to reinstall Proxomitron and just dump it out of the code myself (Which I see someone else did with a different method..) but if you just do that every time there's something irritating, then that neither helps the site get funded (I don't donate to places I find irritating...do you?) nor actually provides any contribution to the commmunity and site at all.

I guess for people that only lurk and hardly ever post, it's NOT obtrusive, but for someone that posts frequently, and will see the thing 50-100 times a day in all it's neon pink pepto bismol glory, it IS. And after reading the announcement thread, I can clearly see there's plenty of other people that agreed with that, and some that weren't as bothered.

Said it above, I'll say it again..I'm not going to be blackmailed into paying. I've tried to always keep my donations with my wife's account and mine current, but you want me to donate more, then find a feature that's compelling that I want to use, don't expect me to pay to push the gun that you pointed at my head away.

You are, and doing so doesn't make you a troll, BUT.... feigning ignorance of how someone might find the techincolor puke all over every thread now might find it obtrusive, in order to dismiss their opinion? Come on man. It's bright colors in the middle of a muted color scheme at the OTHER end of the warm/cool spectrum. It's "obtrusive" just by that fact alone. It was deliberately placed so that anyone that wants to make a post is GUARANTEED to have to see it. It's obtrusive *by design*. SMH...

Well, yes, that's kind of to be expected, but I don't feel like I've ever really complained about any other change that's been made to the site, or felt as annoyed by any of them, even the ones I substantially don't agree with. Nor was I forced into subscribing to remove an annoying feature before.

Feel free to lock this thread, I guess. I have my answer.

I'm sure that if you give me a rundown of things you won't pay for, I can probably find a few that are insane too. Can't tell you how many people I know that refuse to pay for a streaming music service like Spotify, but will pay 10-15 bucks for a downloaded album..that's insane to me. /shrug

Here's an idea..I don't know if this is even possible, but I wonder if there's some way for Robin to expose how much bandwidth goes per-user? Like if we could have someplace to go in our profile that says "You average X bandwidth per month, click here to donate!" I might be motivated to donate more if I had access to that info, but again, my entire point is that would STILL not be a forced thing like these ads are.

*Edit* LOL love the oh-so-impartial mod upvote gangbang