50 posts removes both top ads from the Forum (one on topic, one on header) but leaves the forum box. If I could, I'd remove most of them for our members with over 50 posts on the guide as well, but it's not possible as the guide is basic html for the most part and not integrated with the Forum that way.
An issue with online advertising these days is how tracked we are by companies and as you seem to notice, stereotyping gamers as men is an issue, showing these horrible MMO RPGs that are sucking men in with images of scantily clad women. They gather information about sites you visit etc and some advertisers may target you based on that. Not suggesting you go to for men only sites (obviously not, given you're female) but some other criteria (demographics, location etc.) may flag you to get ads like that, all around the web for anyone who is using common ad networks for their ad delivery. For the most part, I see ads for webmasters and gaming when I visit the Guide but I'm not much into surfing the web these days so they have less to go on, other than knowing I need web hosting
Essentially, you could just be getting it because you are a gamer and they don't know your gender.
If it is a Google ad, they offer you options to avoid this stereotyping and help customize the ads you are shown. Follow this link and look at
Manage your Ad Settings - you can disable categories yourself that way.
One thing you can do for others, is tell me in PM the site it's showing you so that I can try to block it in google and other sites we use for advertising. If you feel the ad is safe to click, I can block their entire domain from showing on our site - but only if it's a google ad. I find those types of ads inappropriate for the Guide obviously, but cannot exert control until I've seen it come up. We used to get these sleazy ads for a game that included lots of cleavage and were all over the site, with complaints coming in constantly. They made like 30 domains to make it so that you had a hard time blocking them.
I'll investigate categories on a couple of our ad partners and see if I can disable anything that might look like it could lead to ads of this nature. It puts the bad rep for showing it on the webmaster, when I wish that advertising companies would hold higher standards and not allow ads that could be seen as sexually suggestive on the web when they don't really know who's on the net - but TV is pretty much worse, so it's not getting better in the industry. I saw a Hot Pockets commercial that was overly sexualized just yesterday, with the pretty woman expected to make me want to go out immediately to buy microwave food and I am sure I would find women lining up to meet me at the check-out. I'm sure we can all agree that 30% extra pepperoni and a better crust is hard to resist.
I'll do what I can on my end and load some pages to see if I can get it to come up; If you can and feel safe, click the ad to get their domain name and give me the opportunity to block it if it is indeed possible to do so.
