As someone who has no vested interest or ego ties to any of the boards, here's my 2 cents...
First off, GFY has such a huge number of eyeballs that the most likely person to kill it is.... Lensman. No move anyone from the outside can make will do anywhere near the level of damage that Lens can do to it himself by alienating the members. But if there's one thing we've learned about "internet time" and the speed at which things move online is there's no amount of market share is sufficient to make any online product invincible.
As for cash or other incentives for posting, it kills the quality of the threads....period. Contests, especially those that do not involve posting, are a lot of fun however. Things like Oprano Pickem are great.
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