"It would be nice if the ads popped up a new window instead of reusing the window in which the ad appears."

But in practice I imagine I'll automatically right click them to opening a new window anyway, which is just as easy.

That article misophist says seems to suggest that talking too much about ways of artificially increasing the click rate could be seen as a breach of the agreement. However from the links in Bill D's post it looks as if that's just about people playing dirty tricks with computers to make it appear there are a lot more clicks than there really are. So I doubt if there's any reason to worry.

Once thing - I very much hope we aren't inviting in Google in a way that could mean that posts from the Mudcat would be likely to appear in Google searches, which doesn't seem to happen up to now. And mybunderstanding is that this isn't going to happen. I'm sure that if it did it might get more people visiting Mudcat, but I think it would be a serious mistake.

I think it is important for the Mudcat that most people arrive here because of an interest in folk music in the first place - it means that when things get divisive on the BS threads, there is that basis of a shared interest to hold things together.