Like I have stated before, we run pops for a reason and we must continue doing so if we want to keep TS alive and kicking. You have my promise, if sometime sooner we finally get some good advertisers again we will put pops down.
Anyway, it's too bad there's still people thinking they are getting ripped because of pops. Pretty much like you I visit dozens of sites daily and I can tell you, I have never stopped visiting a site because of pops.
Of course, those few sites getting my hits are usually sites I really like and enjoy visiting and I feel they give me a lot for nothing so my overall level of satisfaction is well worth one or two pops unless they are too annoying.
Have you seen some other of those mainstream sites using Interstitials or those scrolling ads that stay on top? Now, I would say those are REALLY annoying because they do not let you browse through a page as you normally would.
Now here's a question for you guys... I have been thinking of removing pops from TechSpot's frontpage, only pops on sections and articles, that would be a way of promoting our frontpage to more people to bookmark it and make it its homepage, what do you think?