Everyone that pays for ability to post on a motherfucking internet forum is a moron by definition.
when I was still posting more than half a decade or so ago(I had one of the earliest regdates, pretty much after a forum wipe in the past, and back then of course you didn't need to pay to register) people who got banned happily paid to get back, over, and over, and over again.
And then more money for custom avatars and forum ranks for people they hated. Yes you could do that on top of paying to be able to search, and then you need money to access the archives, because otherwise it be costing bandwidth son!
And then when it still had a filesharing forum word got around and people paid to get into that shit long after Lowtax shut it down and they went into private forum offshoots.
"where the filez at yo" -ban-
which is hilarious and all but it still means more money for them
Oh, and SA bans people for mod sass like Bioware closes threads.
And once in a while their /b/ forum held competitions where one guy would be mod for a week or something and another would get banned.
then everytime lowtax unveils new SA products like buttons or whatever people throw their money at him and praise him with thanks and place preorders for his glorious new tshirt and cap and blanket line
all of it is explained as being funds for the heavily loaded server of course