Greetings to everyone. It is a fact that for infamous websites, such as 4chan or encyclopediadramatica, it is pretty hard to turn page views into money. So the question is, how would YOU personally go about doing that?
4chan likely makes much more money than is reported.. with moot putting forward this broke-kid image, I would think he becomes a much smaller target for the various entities, laws, and copyrights they trample on.<p>It's sort of like how the IFPI used the "profitable" motive in it's arguments against the Pirate Bay.<p>Poor people make poor lawsuit targets.
Ads. But sites like 4chan is more of a community-focus site and they don't really focus on making money. Here is a post about 4chan's revenue:<p><a href="http://www.homethinking.com/brontemedia/2009/02/22/4chanorg-300m-page-viewsmo-about-6k-in-revenue/" rel="nofollow">http://www.homethinking.com/brontemedia/2009/02/22/4chanorg-...</a><p>The revenue is enough to cover the hosting plus maybe a few hundreds extra. That's all.
SomethingAwful's solution: membership & service fees.
Sell badges.
Sell archive-power, e.g. for US$0.10, you can prevent this thread from being pruned for ten minutes.