Originally Posted by Integrity
Getting sponsor's to buy advertising space on your website is influenced by one thing.... NUMBERS. If you don't have the members to view the ads, the sponsors aren't going to advertise with you. Like Nathan said, the amount of users you have online is shrinking. Forcing us out only makes your numbers smaller.
Nu uh. I know of one car related site whose Off-Topic forum got a little (a lot) blue and a company refused to sponsor them because of that. This is America, and if a kid kills someone/him or herself street racing the relatives of the victims are going to look for someone to blame. IE sue. And since sponsoring companies have more money than some enthusiasts who started a board... You hear it every day about every subject - '____ should have known,' and '_____ is responsible'.
And believe it or not, companies care about their image. Ask a club racer if he'd buy stuff from a site that catered to street racers - even if they sell products cheap that the club racer needs, that racer is gonna walk. he'll go somewhere like opm.
BTW, I just recently registered here. I knew about the site from way back, but the street racer type crowd kept me away. Whether that's good or bad, you decide
EDIT: I did not imply OPM wasn't cheap. OPM is :goodjob: