I don't see why the board needs to be aligned with a particular "model" as opposed to letting its community of members discuss a variety of topics (particularly in a general-purpose forum like the Lounge) that they find interesting.I forget the exact wording, but IICR, it was something along the lines of that the SD/SB model did not align with the pay for play model that this board was founded on.
because it's not a charity?I don't see why the board needs to be aligned with a particular "model" as opposed to letting its community of members discuss a variety of topics (particularly in a general-purpose forum like the Lounge) that they find interesting.
Oh, my bad. The one thread or so per year that the topic has previously attracted must have really strained the forum's server resourcesbecause it's not a charity?
my semi-educated guess is it's not about server resources, it's about advertisement income. Why would providers want to advertise on a platform that makes it easier for hobbyists to spend their hobbying money not on providers but elsewhere.Oh, my bad. The one thread or so per year that the topic has previously attracted must have really strained the forum's server resources
By that logic, you could ask why we're allowed to discuss MPAs and not just SPs. (And if the answer is because MPs pay to advertise on here, note that, as I pointed out above, so do sugar dating sites.)my semi-educated guess is it's not about server resources, it's about advertisement income. Why would providers want to advertise on a platform that makes it easier for hobbyists to spend their hobbying money not on providers but elsewhere.
That equation has been confirmed. Ask the Mods to confirm your assumption.I don’t need “confirmation” to know that 2 + 2 = 4.
Even a charity can enforce rules and code of conduct on a forum they own. If people don't like the terms they can go elsewhere.because it's not a charity?
Or it just proves that money talks.As far as the advertising angle is concerned: there are literally sponsored links to sugar dating sites on the front page, so I don't think suppressing knowledge of this segment of the industry altogether is the goal here (or, if it is, it's rather incompletely executed).