So I've gone through this thread a ways, and while I'm certain that absolutely no one cares, here's my thoughts.
Ads. Not necessarily google ads, and certainly not those flash-heavy monsters that Fileplanet (oh, how I hate it so) has a habit of using. But there are more than a few websites which have managed to put some decent ads on their sites without driving away customers. Hell, Penny Arcade (
www.penny-arcade.com) went for years without ever having a single animated ad on their site, and are currently one of the largest webcomics and video gaming sites PERIOD. Their current ads are never exceedingly intrusive and are ALWAYS ON-TOPIC. This is because "Gabe" and "Tycho" actually take a look at each and every ad submitted to them. they only select the ones that a gamer would be interested in, and that they personally would not be annoyed to see on a site.
Certainly, it would be a simplified matter for a site with over 300,000 registered users to say "hey, we have here some advertising space for anime and music companies who want their products ogled by a few thousand visitors a day."
Other than that, I must beg that if you are going to qeue download lines, please do what you can to make them short. Fileplanet is a prime example of what not to be: lines rarely under twenty minutes long at all but the deadest of hours for non-subscribers, never mind if there's a popular file out (when the lines may jump to as high as five or six hours or more). It becomes incredibly aggravating, and I think that many people would leave before even trying the site.