Quoted from chocky909:You Americans are weird. Most of you actually WANT ads don't you? I mean fair enough if Robin REALLY needs to do that but he hasn't hinted at that as far as I've seen. Hopefully donations will keep the site ad free and all the pinball related businesses can be shared informatively and discussed in the threads WITHOUT PREJUDICE and if they are good guys and deliver a good service then that will spread by word of mouth. That's how business should work. Do something well - get paid fairly. Call me a communist if you like but modern advertising is just a horrible thing.
No reason to make generalizations about and bash specific countries Chocky.
One of the greatest things about Pinside--and specifically what Robin has done here--is to bring together people from all over the world, who most likely would never be exposed to each other otherwise, to assist and learn from each other...in the greatest hobby in the world.