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Angry but awesome is a tagline I can live with. Not really angry, though. Just perpetual "online-resting-bitch-face." My words may appear angry but that's just my natural state. Caustically sarcastic/pessimistic? I'll cop to that. But I'm not angry, really. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry. The "ads extracted?" field in the database entries remains as-is, so it looks like @Phillyman isn't concerned with its meaning being further misconstrued by other members. Or he just hasn't read these posts. It's impossible to tell. But at least now YOU know, I guess.

OK, I see what happened. You misunderstood what "ads extracted" means. Ads extracted means that the advertisements in that particular mag have been added to our image gallery. It's an indicator so that no one else has to waste their time comparing the ads in that mag to the ones in the gallery to determine if they've been uploaded yet or not. Extracting an image from an archive is not the same as removing or deleting an image from an archive. It essentially means "making a copy" of specific files within the archive. That purple guy is a legacy from a time when there was no proper data field in our database entries to show that a mag's ads had been extracted. Since then, that field has been added. You can see it on every single magazine in our database, marked either "yes" or "no": Again, this does not mean that the ads have been removed from the archive. They've been extracted and added to our advertisement gallery. (I've removed the purple guy because he's just so sassy.) But even though you weren't as right as you thought you were, this is still an important conversation and I'm glad it came up. @Phillyman: We've got at least one person confused by the "Advertisements extracted" field in our database, who thought it meant that ads had been removed/not included with the download. There are probably others who think the same. Perhaps the field should be changed? "Ads have been added to gallery: yes/no" or something similar? ALSO, for information regarding downloads, always look on the download page, not the database page, and CERTAINLY not the new release post. The new release post is auto-generated by the site software when a download is posted and has zero input from the person uploading the mag. And the database entry and any data it contains is usually input by a completely different person, often years before the download is even created/added. So you need to click the "Download Directly!" link to go to the download page if you want to see any information written by the scanner/editor regarding that particular scan. Granted, lots of people here never bother writing anything at all, but I always do, even if it's just some non sequitur rambling.