I have all advertising blocked on several sites including this one in Firefox. I opened it in Internet Explorer , where I do not have advertising blocked , and did not log in. This thread shows a big ad right in Jamie's original post advertising "miracle" face cream and then another flogging a book on how to beat the share market!!
This is what non-members see when they come to this thread. I know that the site has to be funded from somewhere , but Jamie are you impressed? Log out and have a look what your post includes for non-members.
BTW, Jules , not criticising you for finding ways of funding the site , but a big ad right in an original post looks like , to the casual non-member , to be an ad maybe inserted by that poster.