I recently noticed that AdSense ads DO actually show up in Premium members threads, if you view the thread while logged out, OR as another user other than the OP, though that part I have not witnessed first-hand. According to the list of features for premium subscribers, this should not be happening? Thanks Shawn
Ads do NOT show within premium post if you are logged in (so whoever told you otherwise is mistaken). Ads currently *can* potentially show within a premium member's post if you aren't logged in... it's intentional (but not for the reason you probably think). The issue is that the in-house advertising system needs to know how many ads are going to display on the page before the posts within the thread is rendered because of how it calculates the cost (based on lower bids of other ads). Trying to make backend queries for ads on every post would be *very* expensive (in terms of database resources). So far *now* the solution has been to only go into "high resource utilization mode" when a user is logged in (the majority if traffic here is from people not logged in). It's not a perfect solution, but it will have to work for now... the current alternative would pretty much wreck the DB servers (but still working on coming up with a better solution).