[booruguru]

How do you propose Disqus earn revenue/stay in business. There's little incentive for publishes to pay for a commenting platform when they could just go back to using a shitty internal solution. (Although, admittedly, some publishers do pay discuss for enterprise solutions, but if that were more lucrative than ads, why would the bother with ads?)

I never cease to be amazed by people who bitch about seeing ads within a product/service they use for free. Someone has to pay for this.

[bayesianhorse]

Ads are annoying. People bitch about annoyances. No wonder there.

"Someone has to pay for this" is the wrong attitude. Either the service provider provides the service or he doesn't. If I'm not in a contract to pay them, I don't assume responsibility for paying anything...