When considering ad revenue, mod payments, and treasurer payment accruals, the forum is certainly operating in the red. The forum has the ability to operate this way for many years/decades, so theymos may not be concerned. I do think that the forum should at least allow targeted ads, which I would anticipate increase total ad revenue.
Of course, I'm not in the same level as you guys are, on commenting about the forum and its revenue but i would like to say about
targeted ads... they are never beneficial in long run. I personally loose trust on any website running targeted ads. May be forum will gain some revenue but how much user base it might lose?
That doesn't make sense to me. Why do you not trust sites running targeted ads? Someone who regularly views, but doesn't post in the gambling sub would probably be interested in ads for a casino, while someone who posts in the altcoin sub might be more interested in an exchange.