I've always been against ad spam on these sites. Once they get a foothold, they rush in and take over. I don't see this as censorship, a forum like this isn't a commercial venue for folks trying to make a buck.

I used to post to Voten ... I gave up because ad spammers now have more content there than there is legit content. When you have to wade through twenty posts of attorney services, someone selling this or that, garage door repair guys, or Indian internet services crap, the forum itself becomes unusable.

They want an ad ... do what Voat does ... sell sidebar ads. Otherwise, I'm against 'em!

Something like this for what's not allowed: "Vending of illegal items and research chemicals are not allowed. Nor is discussion of vendors, links to vendors, or links to pages with links of vendors of illegal items. Subs and users caught buying or selling illegal items, or discussing such, will be removed."

The only ads that make sense on a free speech website are user made and supported. Otherwise you have to bow to the whims of advertisers or run degenerate porn ads.

See you can always say "make a subpoal and post all your promotions to it", if others don't want to see it just block it... but how many is acceptable for any user to have to block? Suppose you have 100 self-promoters and just to get a "normal" poal experience you'd have to block 100 sub-poals.

edit: yeah if you have ad sidebar then that opens a "relief valve" for "free (self-promoting) speech"

First I would suggest signing the site up for Brave rewards so people can easily donate/tip the site.

BitChute does a pretty good job at this. They have a "" page with the icon up in the right hand corner with the menu items. This is where they have their different payment & donation options.

Set up an account on and give us the referral link for new users to sign up. I would also suggest a account so users can donate monthly via crypto currency.