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by jonny_eh 1243 days ago
Most people who do things "just because", don't monetize because either it isn't possible or it isn't worth the effort. For a site with as much traffic as GP's, it's probably worth it. Regardless, anyone turning down that much revenue out of principle deserves a lot of credit.
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That sounds like a pretty ideologically-motivated form of selection bias.