Why then doesn't he spend several million dollars on promoting the forum? To increase activity and all that. Or create some kind of system that would reward quality posts financially, or ultimately give users cash prizes.
The forum no longer auctions ad spaces so will not benefit from promotion. Bitcointalk has also always maintained the position of not promoting to attract users to increase traffic.
An idea to reward quality post will raise so many subjective arguments on what is quality. If one chooses to go by merits, it will lead to increased merit farming and will overall influence the posting habits so much that the forum might lose any originality it has now.
- Jay -