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by dingaling 3932 days ago
> If the scales tip too far, the funds dry up and content will just go away

Or the user-generated content, which fora require to attract new users to keep feeding the content-cycle, will just migrate to other platforms. Nu-Usenet, whatever it might be.

Some forum sites realise this and disable ads for top contributors, to try to keep them in the fold.