There's no denying that the board makes money from advertising, but I'm in no position to comment on that in any depth.
However, I don't see the correlation between using common sense, protecting the MPA's as well as MP's from any extra hassles, and the method of massageplanet.net's financing.
I sure as shit ain't getting any $ out of this and to be perfectly honest I couldn't give a rats ass abt how much money massageplanet.net makes, except for the fact that I actually like the massageplanet.net and whatever keeps it going is fine by me.
The bottom line is, that it's a public board and at the risk of sounding redundant ( who, me ? ) without the MPA's there would be no spas, without MPA's there would be no [so called] hobby etcetera etcetera
Anything that can be done to make life easier for everyone within reason should be done and that should apply to non advertisers and advertisers alike.
Not everyone will be happy, but this thread alone shows that massageplanet.netites can be thoughtful folk and don't feel that someone's need for DFK outweighs the wellbeing of others.
In short, it's not a case of "rah rah rah" *waves pom poms*. It's a case of not only protecting the welfare of MPA's as well as MP's, but in doing so, "the hobby". So, everyone's happy, right ? ..... aaah well, ya can please some of the people some of the time ...
massageplanet.net is actually very useful - you just have to know how to utilise it, which ain't that hard.