Nothing in life is black and white SASless.
However even a dim fixed wing pair like me and Danny know helo people are taking the piss when there's been one ad on PPRuNe in 8 years and hundreds in mags no one even buys.
There are more people here in a day than than the job sites see in a month. So there's lots of choice for operators but they're already actually paying perfectly good money but in areas where only those who are already looking, look.
Here's the nub of it:
Why should PPRuNe support commercial businesses publishing ads whether paper or on line? Because that's where you scuttle off to when someone gives a 'friendly heads up' isn't it? PPRuNers are collectively doing the actual work these sites or magazines are getting paid for. They are getting the traffic and the great response they promise advertisers through you.
This is where you guys come. You've built a genuinely world class forum with your posts but you are sending folks off to other sites that couldn't give stuff about you individually. Helo company cheques are their lifeblood not you.
When the site goes down, the server can't cope and everything slows to a crawl there's only one reason and you guys are a habitual part of it. Here at the Towers we are coded up and ready to roll with the software to embed pictures and video on the forums but completely stalled because of an inadequate sever. There's no need at all to have you linking away from the site other than our technical limitations which are the only reason we've ever taken advertising. This has happened repeatedly over the years as many of you are all too aware.
Great forum, huge traffic, free access = bigger and bigger technical load.
Regards
Rob