Quote Originally Posted by thoufeeq
I too have the same doubt. But I am sure about one thing that that they really benefit from the members. They are getting a massive traffic to their sites and are getting noticed by the search engines very quickly.
I think when forum admin still having lot of members that time, they won't earn much as all his earnings will need to pay for members for their activities. But after sometimes when they have submit to various search engines, and getting visitors from directory, only they start earning, but then that time they may already stop payment.