Ridiculous.The forum's income is enough. From the donations in the past upto the weekly advertisement slots they auctioned. Sorry to say, worst suggestion.
How would you know if it's enough? people here expect theymos to hire 10 full time staff members to moderate the forum. would you work 8 hours a day for free to moderate this forum?
The forum's advertising bids are public, so you can dig that up if you're interested.
Of course the forum has more expenses than just moderators, and I don't feel any need to know the details.
But, if even hilariousetc (Global Moderator on his other account) calls it "a sinking ship", that shows there are disagreements higher up the forum's food chain.
I can't help but think the many shitposters just contribute to forum activity, that gives more banner impressions, and in the end the forum earns from it. If that's the case, the forum doesn't care that the quality of posts keeps dropping.
All I can do, is report spam. The problem is many shitposters post
just enough "quality" to not be considered spam, even though none of their posts contributes anything useful.