If a sponsor pays for advertising, Does that make them a better sponsor?

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Do deep pockets make them better sponsors? Certainly not. Most of them started with lots of playing cash, which afforded them the path to creating even more. That's just how capitalism works.

It doesn't seem like you see many small budget start-ups becoming much more than what they started as in this business. I don't really know why that is. It's not as if the reps working for the larger sponsors seem to know what they're doing or even care. The most knowledgeable people I've spoken to are actually the owners of small programs.

I first read this thread late last night and I've been pondering how it would be feasible to allow small programs to make announcements on a main board without creating a total SPAMfest. I suppose a board could sell individual stickied threads for a fair price with no banner advertising included. Obviously, you couldn't allow free-for-all spamming. So a price and discretion would have to be attached to such an action. If I was a program owner who had the ability to write good marketing text, I'd rather have a thread than a banner any day.