I would hazard to guess that 98% of the people who do not use The Monastery Gates as their "home page" use the Newest Nodes page. Why would anyone use anything else? Maybe some use SOPW as another 1.5% (got any stats, webmaster?) As far as the advertising goes, my philosophy has always been to please the viewers, and not the advertisers. I rarely see the ads anyway, as the browser I tend to use does not handle the IFRAME tag. :)