Seeing as most people arent still reading it, why not setup a system where when you click the ad the account gets a value of some kind that way each time they come to the forum it checks for that.

If they didnt click it, it will show up on every page until they do, thus if someone missed it and is going to ask about warez questions it will show up on a reply or a new topic page also where they will have to read it since they want to type something.

it might make more sense to keep it focused until they did click it, and disable navigation until it was.

However, I think these suggestions are still pretty drastic.

if any of you have a java script to do this then let me know!

The current layer only becomes active when the whole page is loaded... not sure if this can be changed somehow

Well, I searched the net and managed to find a way to overwrite the web-browser's "alert" box.

I am unsure how it will work on linux and mac's. Can anyone here want to see?

http://www.geocities.com/sagefankia/index.html
The button on the page pops up the alert window.

The style is loaded with css and the popup is initiated and handled with java functions. View the source to see what it is like.

The original code page is here, along with their example:
http://slayeroffice.com/code/custom_alert/
The fifth or so paragraph down states how it stops user interaction while the window is open.

i just became a member about 15 minutes ago

Wouldn't it be better if it would be an extra step to go through when your either posting a new thread or post? Instead of it popping up all the time?

It doesn't pop up all the time, I get it ONCE when I come here and it never appears again until I browse away and come back.

As for making it pop up when you reply or post a new topic, now that would piss people off!

It pops up for me about every day. As for making things even clearer to people, no, we won't: we expect from our visitors a certain level of intelligence which includes knowing that all public forums have rules and those not following them will be punished (or expelled).