>>>Get rid of the banner ads, et cetera than I will contribute.<<<
296 posts and you can't contribute, say, ten bucks?
I have to wonder how many times you've visited this site in total and not posted... Five hundred? A thousand?
Jeez. Just contribute whatever it is that you pay for the monthly charge to get online in the first place. Even five dollars will help out... And don't use the "banner ads" as an excuse, even on dialup this site loads faster than almost anything and doesn't detract from the usability of the site.
Shame on anyone who has a hundred posts or more and can't drop the amount you'd spend on a few beers on a lame overnight towards helping keep this site alive and free of membership charges.