very good stuff and it made some of the points that I was saying. 

I'm hoping what you get from this ioi is that using the less valuable but less intrusive adds would be most beneficial too you. That way we the consumer don't have the intrusive add and you don't need to put off visitors.

The flashblock I use allows me to click on disabled flash videos to have them start playing.

This has already been discussed to death on other sites wanting more money.

The internet is not tv nor is it radio because advertisers do not have full control. You honestly think it is "not my right" to block ads? You think it is copyright infringement?

I'll copy paste something for you:

"If I open my physical copy of the Sunday newspaper and throw away any or all of the advertising sections without reading them, am I violating the law, because I am infringing the copyright of the publication as I physically 'filter out the advertising sections' by creating 'an unlawful derivative work of the publication'???

And when I filter out "junk mail" that arrives in my physical mailbox without opening it or reading it, am I violating copyright law?

And when I filter out "spam" and "junk email" from my incoming email account, am I also violating copyright law?

And when I block or limit access to entire web sites (by my router configuration), I that find inappropriate, distracting, or harmful to an underage child (wikipedia, Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and porn) am I violating the law? Am I not allowed to do these things?"

It is NOT illegal for me to block your ads. I have no clue where you thought that up seeing as how advertisers have been battling this for years now and have not won. If ads are not generating enough money for you to keep the site going, then you need to find a better way to generate that money seeing as how slapping ads everywhere won't work for you. Since I control where I go on the internet I can see the web how I want to see it, not how marketers want me to see it. 

"We are expanding the site and building the business (and it is doing just fine) at the same time as stopping people from thinking they have the right to a free ride when they don't. There's nothing desperate about it."

So your answer to your entrepreneur problems is to tell us not to enable an ad blocker to view your site? Don't think i don't remember when you started this site while you were trying to promote it on Neogaf. I remember. I also remember that this site didn't used to be this big and that at one point you had the most basic of ads and guess what? You didn't complain about this then. Now your website is bigger and instead of thanking your readers and members for being apart of what helped make it get bigger, you slap this thread and almost demand in their face to do something so you can receive even more money? That might not be desperate, but it sure as hell smells funny.