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Well, the reason their are ads is so the site can afford to pay for hosting. And the only way the site gets money is if people click on ads. So blocking ads = screwing over the site.

And a dedicated web server is in the $150 - $400+ range per month. Ads might pay .05 a click.
No way you need a dedicated server for this site...
From my discussions with Ellay, you couldn't be further from teh truth :P

Site probably uses on avg 75% of hte dedicated server's resources.

When slashdotted from ZOMG 36 BOXER, it uses around 135% of the server. Hence the flaming and smoke and ddOS affect people experienced.
I don't have any doubts about the load, I just think a *physical* dedicated server isn't appropriate for this type of site. With all the grid/vps based options out there, you could easily handle the burst traffic for a lot less cost.
Services like Mosso, Joyent, and Media Temple use either clusters of servers or virtualization where if you have to burst it will expand your partition to use the power of a $100,000 server. I've run a lot of big sites and done research on this and unless yuo need huge amounts of disk space (hundreds of gigs or terabytes) or some other need of a physical server, the cluster hosting is just more cost effective.