Ads are running all over the chess.com forums.

it would cost around 12000 a month/144000 a year. chess.com has 100 million per year in revinue

so .14% of the sites yearly revenue. Seems like a pretty good deal to me.

I can't say why the site doesn't have some paid moderators to cover forums and the main content areas but you're guessing on the costs involved. Full time employees also have benefits and the site doesn't pay anyone minimum wages as far as I'm aware (which is mostly meaningless in a company that hires members from all over the world).

That said, my guess is for 4 people would be closer to your estimate, minimum, and 7 would almost double it. As to revenue, there are a lot of costs beyond employees (and they have quite a few already) so additional outlays may not be as easy as one may think.

Are there ads? Sorry, is this too much of non-adblock-user problem for me to understand?

We are talking about people advertising on forums without permission

Sorry then. Yeah, that must be annoying. But I liike to brag with my superior tech savvy skills of adblock.

I have an adblock too

Another superior tech savvy skill bro💪💪

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Now the ads are in other people’s forums so they dont get caught. Wow. Veery smart. (Hint of sarcasm)

which forums?

Some of them at the end