rob666 hat geschrieben:Let's be honest here: idealists? Everybody can earn money or not, just like Thaivisa or other people.
As you probably know, the owner of Thaivisa used to live in KK and he's Swedish.
Actually some forums are living with the advertising and that's ok. And some are advertising on forums to live!!!
What's the problem? You don't like it, stop reading them.
I do agree that there is nothing wrong about advertising on information pages, especially if the advertising is adding to the information. So banner advertising of local businesses is most welcome. Only I don't think there should be ads on forums that distract people from enjoying the forum. I don't think Google Adsense matches with forums. The topics on forums are far too diverse to get informative ads. The Adword sensors cannot find topical information in the mash of a forum. So you get general and cheap ads only. I have decided that revenue from Google Adsense isn't high enough to spoil my forum for it. Costs for web hosting aren't that high. At my host in Germany I'm paying for four top level domains and 2000 MB webspace and DBs, mail etc. altogether about 5 € a month. How much do you think I had to spent for installing Adsense and collect a few cents revenue each month?
But a colorful informative portal which people can open or not at their own discretion with informative banner ads of decent local businesses is no harm at all.