You don't need to use google ads. Theymos doesn't seem keen on adding additional revenue sources anyway, but you could just add more banners here if you wanted more income from adverts. As I suggested before, having one at the top of sub boards would be lucrative and companies can target what areas they want to advertise in ie a gambling company would advertise in a gambling board.
Yes, that's pretty viable. Another way is to also feature sponsored/ prioritized posts or stickies to boost their presence.
Theymos mentioned before he didn't want to do sponsored/prioritised or stickied posts, hence why I suggested the sub board ads as a compromise.
By the way, theymos solely determines the advertisers (from the bidding), right?
Yes.
I'm not sure what that means.
I think what he meant that it's style of censorship; mods deleting at their own discretion.
I dunno. This forum is pretty liberal when it comes to staff and normally people get away with more than they should, but I guess some people feel censored whenever they have any post removed even it if was against the rules. I've seen people hysterically cry over having a ref link moved or even having the thread moved to the correct sun board as censorship.