And half of members will move to other forum, Bitcointalk will have less advertising tenants and lack of finance to maintenance forum and pay for staffs.
Why would somebody advertise on a forum that is made up only by bots posting crap and people logging in just to post their bounty links?
Besides, funding is not an issue
Right, I don't care about making money from the forum personally. (I've actually thought about getting rid of the forum ads, since it's often a big headache and the forum has enough reserves for a long time, but operating at a significant loss while there's money basically just sitting on the table feels wrong, even if the level of loss is sustainable for quite a while.)
I wonder what the defcon status is currently for the nuclear option?
6?