I will not try to beat corners in other to appear cooler than I truly am, or lie in other to appear more dedicated to this forum than I truly am, I will just state the fact as I think it is, and that fact is that, money is very essential to everyone's life and well being, most people on the internet today are looking for one way or the other to make money, check Twitter - users there are all trying had to monetize their content through engagement farming, check YouTube, check Instagram, check Tik tok, everyone on this platforms are all looking for ways to monitize their contents, only two categories of people are not doing so, and they are -
1. People who already are millionaires and are only interested in keeping tabs with friends, family and fans throght this platforms
2. People who don't know how to go about monitizing their contents, or simply lack enough followers and don't know how or what to do to grow it.
What am I saying in essence? Remove the ability to make money from a platform and that platform won't really have a lot of active users, talk about popular chat apps like WhatsApp, telegram, it's all about making money for most users, as people use this platform to advertise their businesses, get referrals for online stuffs that pays them for such.
Bitcointalk is a top crypto forum, not just because it was founded by Satoshi himself, but the fact that users can make money from the forum has contributed profoundly to its growth, remove that ability today, traffic on bitcointalk, as well as active members will drop significantly.
Many of us like myself have been on this forum for quite some time now, but we all will confess we were never that active like we are now, why, because, now, many of us have a reason to visit the forum on daily basis, on like before.
So, what I did say is, if you have a businesses that are willing to advertise on this forum, bring them On, the more earning opportunities are made available to users, the more the forum will continue to grow.