My browser has built in pop-up protection, so the popups didnt' really bother me much. I just thought the board didn't have any good features, a horrible interface, and were just plain ugly. These ones look a lot cleaner.
But yeah, I am very much in favor of keeping things positive. It's always been my experience that if you get a bunch of Nintendo fans together, we always start griping about the way things are going. It's really weird actually.