Quote from: mexxer-2 on November 24, 2015, 08:39:08 AM

Quote from: Swordsoffreedom on November 24, 2015, 08:34:09 AM

The money comes out of Donations to the forum, from ages ago.
The donate button on your frontpage beside search.

Moderators don't (IIRC) get paid from donations, but from the ad revenues .

Actually your right it is from ad revenues, the forum software was from the donation pool.
Had those two mixed up there thanks for the correction mexxer it's a page I haven't used in a long time so I didn't notice the Theymos note till you brought it up subconsciously

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Quote from: theymos on November 18, 2015, 02:45:41 AM

The forum sells ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page. About 25% of ad income goes to the forum moderators as thanks for all of their work. (There are many moderators, so each moderator gets only a small amount -- moderators should be seen as volunteers, not employees.) The rest is stored in the forum's treasury (verifiably), where it sits until the forum needs it.