I haven't seen any of the types of ads that some of you are describing, just normal merchant ads and some ads for 3D related software (e-frontier, etc). Is there a possibility that some of these ads could be a result of adware on peoples computers? I remember some people complaining about popups here and an Ad-Aware scan made them go away.

Quote - Seems like someone is working very hard to try to keep us from blocking ads instead of working on making the site run smoothly without hanging at times.

I hardly think that for the amount of free features Renderosity gives people, you have any right to complain that they are trying to keep you from blocking the ads that help finance the site. Bandwidth for things like gallery hosting, forums, blogs, homepage space, etc costs money. A small 468x60 banner taking up a fraction of the webpage isnt  the end of the world.