First let me say that typing with a cast on sometimes causes unwanted results, like a post getting sent off in the middle of typing somewhere (as happened in the middle of entering post title). So that's first in case it happens again here.
No, I don't want to skip the ads. I realize why they're necessary. It's just that that one is a pita for me.
As for being a paid member and still seeing some ads, well that doesn't add up for me. What would make more sense is if a contributor didn't have to see them after some number of reputation points or something because that's a measure of contributions. However, if I was selling a product and knew there was any method of members avoiding ads I might not be impressed by that.
The concept of paying to help others for free doesn't work for me either, sorry to say. I know that you know I have often put many hours into solutions at times (elsewhere) without receiving any compensation, so no problem there, but I can't see my way to paying to do that.
I think the intent of my post was one thing but the perception of it was something else. Hope we can leave it at that.