This is why, people, this is why.

Forgive me if this has already been suggested, but would it help if we were to try finding you viable alternatives to AdSense? The attempt may not bare any fruit, but I figure it would be worth a shot, at least.

The attempt is worse than fruitless, it tends to be outright harmful, because it requires rewriting unpleasant chunks of the forum to replace it's ad handling with whatever we're trying at the current time and then waiting up to 90 days to find out the new provider is absolute crap and can't sustain us.

We've already trialed several small scales, like lijit and project wonderful and whatever else was in the bucket of doom. I have lists upon lists of providers, most of which have one issue or another that's prevented us from using them except as a last ditch effort.

There is no try before you buy with these things, they all have exclusivity requirements so the switch to a new provider is cold turkey.