In the long term, it will backfire on everyone, because advertisers will not pay to advertise on a forum where most of the posts will be so bad that no one will read them anymore.
I'm afraid, but if it persist, then they'll definitely be no choice for the companies passing time around... The truth is, they've got representatives in here... The statistics are constantly evaluated to know if they're actually making the desired traffic and profits or not.
I don't wanna blame the MODs directly -- it ain't even easy to do their jobs, but what exactly do we all want for this forum at a long run? You and i, everyone else? Shall we all sit and watch a great community of intellectual people like this getting rubbed in the mud like it's nothing?