All the sites make money whether you pay money to play or not. They virtually all have advertising driven models. There is nothing wrong with that. We have free subscriptions here. In exchange, ads are shown and we pay with our time and bandwidth. Where we make these payments is up to us.

The 'other pigs' (or actual shareholders) are more equal here. That doesn’t mean dissent is disallowed. The goal at this board is to gather a wealth of honest information so the best interests of the investor are served.

Allow me to offer this to the whole board:

Try to not to argue with ignorance. It is exhausting. Then it beats you up with experience.