Hey all,

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that we are enabling monetization and advertisements on the message boards. 

There are a few reasons why we are doing this:
- There are a few plugins that we want to pay for; we do believe in paying for good products
- There are a few hard costs involved with running a site and a few dollars will go a long way to help out
- We want to purchase advertisements (on search, on Facebook, etc) to help bring in new users to the boards. Having some money will help enable this.


We are doing this gradually and (hopefully) in a respectful way. Right now you may see an single advert at the bottom of the message boards.

We do not want to overload the site with idiotic flashing banners and BonziBUDDY-style nonsense and detract from the user experience of the message boards. Hopefully a gradual roll-out will keep things from getting too crazy.

If you have any questions or concerns, or if you want to report a bad advertisement, please post in this thread and we will address.

Thanks!

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