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

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by [BV]

...I was just thinking about the readers and what the consequences were of them primarily being inundated with paid adds and paid spam posts from your advertisers...

Why should this forum be different than any other aspect of life?

Pick up a newspaper. Turn on a TV or radio. Surf the internet. Drive in your car & look at billboards. Go to a sporting event. Everywhere you go, you are seeing ads.

And let's not forget that I publish my stats a couple times a year. There are big programs in there & there are small programs in there. There are board sponsors in there & some sponsors are not. If anything, this aspect alone should set this board apart from every other one because my stats are an honest & truthful evaluation of the sponsors that I am using & none of the link codes on there are the codes that we use for the board advertisers.