Okay, I realize you have to make money somehow but the site is starting to look really crazy with advertisements. The one I'm really having trouble accepting or dealing with is where you now insert an advertisement after the first person adds a new thread and this advertisement is so big that it scrolls off the screen that there is anyone else who has responded to the thread-- you have to scroll past the advertisement to find the real stuff you want to read. I think this is a really intrusive form of advertising, much worse than banner ads at the top or right hand panel side of the web site.

Hope you'll rethink this.

Well considering that most of us already had the surgery planned when we started here, how many people does the band ads actually reach at this point?

More than you'd imagine. We have a huge amount of people that browse through LBT before they even decide to go ahead with the surgery, let alone choose a surgeon.

Well then thats great, I am a moderator on another site, (sports related) and I know how hard it is to keep up a site free of charge. So the ads are working here.