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But I don't want "reduced advertising" when I get 200 Rep!

One of the "benefits" of earning 200 rep points is that fewer ads are displayed to you. Instead of seeing three zones (Leaderboard Top, Leaderboard Bottom, and Sidebar), you see only one (Sidebar).
Now I put "benefits" in quotes because I personally don't consider less advertising (especially on SO) to be beneficial. Of course, as the "ad guy", I really don't care because the loss of impressions are statistically negligible, but as a member I feel that I'm missing out on something.
We work hand-in-hand with each sponsor to make sure their ads are high quality and relevant, and we won't even talk to companies with a product/service that we know is a poor fit. And now that there's no more AdSense, that's the only thing we see.
There are so many awesome products/services that I've found through relevant ads, most of which solved problems I didn't even realize I had (or were solvable). Cushy CMS, for example, has very recently "changed my life". And of course, there's no other way I'd find out about these, because I don't spend a whole lot of time reading reviews, etc.
So long story short... I think the "reduced advertising" thing should be changed to work as follows: 

On the User Profile page, there would be a Checkbox that reads "Show Reduced Advertising". The Checkbox remains hidden until the member reaches 200 rep. Upon reaching 200, the box gets automatically checked.

Basically, it would work exactly the way it did before, except you get the option to turn off reduced advertising.
And yes, of course I'm biased. But still, Good ads are are a Good Thing.

A:

I would prefer this not to happen for a few reasons:

It's extra work for very little benefit IMO
It's an extra option, meaning more complexity, for very little benefit. Joel has previously expressed his opinion about many options just being about developers not being confident in knowing what users want.
I think very few people would go to the trouble of deliberately opting in to extra advertising.

I don't strenuously object to this, but I'd be very surprised if there wasn't something the SO team could be spending their time on which would give more benefit to more users.

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A:

I think that part of it is that such a small amount of people actually get reduced advertising that it doesn't really matter. Considering a majority of traffic comes straight from Google, that means all of those people get all the ads.
I for one agree that they have actually put up some good ads. I actually went and read through a lot about Splunk. But I think that because this feature would be so little used, it is not likely a priority at all. 
I'd rather have a 'Sponsored' page where the team can list all the advertisers, and then I could just go and look at all the people who advertise on StackOverflow.

