In the “blow job” thread Dr. T wrote regarding ads in an archived thread:

Dr. Techie - 20 August 2007 06:08 PM

Although I was kind of unhappy about switching sites just as I was closing in on 10000, I’m glad we don’t have to put up with that crap.

It may be that Dave is no longer paying the big bucks for a non-advertising site.  His “gold community” subscription ($218 for 12 months!!!) ran out on August 5th last.  I’d hate to see Dave having to pay for the archives.  Just a thot.

That’s precisely it. I’m no longer paying to keep the ads out. The old subscription just ran out last week.

Ah, I hadn’t thought of that.  My comment was certainly not intended to suggest that you should continue payments to keep the archives ad-free.