Will look at this. I wouldn't recommend moving into the menu bar though, as that is high in the window. I'll look at the possibility to place adverts above the post button instead.
Along with placing the "Post Thread" button below the advertisements, I'd like to see the Thread Title and Search Box below them as well. Understanding that having the Thread Title near the top of the page can be useful because you don't have to scroll through the advertisements to see where you are But having a second instance of the Thread Title below the ads would be helpful as well.
All three could be on a line, left, middle, right: Post Thread .... Forum Title .... Search Box.
The banner ads are among the largest ads you'll see on any audio forum. From an end-user perspective, I'd like to see the advertisements at the very top of the page or interspersed within the page. You'd see them when the page loads, but you wouldn't have to keep scrolling through them to get to navigation. Yes, I get the idea of monetizing the forum and I'm sure we'll be seeing advertisements filling the right hand column of many pages - okay fine - but ads should be placed in a way that causes you to see them without making them a hinderance to forum use.
I understand you want the user to see some options available to them above the ads when the page first loads, which already led to duplicating some navigation above and below the ads, so it looks like there is some recognition of the issue. Thanks for listening.
