Thanks for sharing your opinions and keeping this discussion civil.
I'll clear a few things up about how we get support from having sponsors. We don't generate any money from ad views or even by people clicking on ads, so there is no reason to encourage people to visit more pages or click on the links if they have no interest in joining a pay site. We do get paid a commission of around 50% of the sale price (and rebills), or sometimes we get a single sign up bonus between $15 and $40 depending on the site. To put things in perspective, the overall cost of running OCC is around $2,000 US dollars a month.
GUBA is by far our best and most popular sponsor. I feel pretty confident about recommending them to people because it is the only pay site I belong to right now. I've also been a member there for the past two years. They truely have something for everyone.
These last couple of weeks have been tough. We have been trying to make decisions where everyone will be happy, or have the opportunity to be happy in the future. Sometimes I feel like I'm balancing on a ball.
Things have been very busy this weekend and I'm sure they will get better (and easier) next week.
Please be patient with us and we'll be posting news as soon as it's available. For now, I'm just glad we were able to get the video forum back open and our server problems under control.
Thanks,