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In my opinion, i like this forum because of the personalities in here and as well as low to zero rate of spamming.

I certainly do not wish to see a spam message in every thread. Perhaps yes and as Binh had mentioned, the forum probably is a little biased to UXcell, but they are still one of the forum's sponsers afterall.

The fact that Binh has kept the forum to just 2 sponsers (UXcell & House of DAP) probably is just to cover the high running costs of the forum. Which in the past hit the ceiling due to high bandwidth usage. And subsequently the site went offline for a few weeks.
Much as nobody wants to know or be reminded about all these details, i feel that the newer users needs to know about this past. At least the current sponsers has been helping Binh with the running costs in some way or another.

The reason i feel that Binh has rejected other sponsers is perhaps that maybe UXcell & HouseOfDAP would be long term sponsers. This would ensure the forum would be up and running for as long as possible.

If more sponsers were added to the forum, UXcell or HouseOfDAP might just pull out due to lower publicity. And nobody knows if the new sponsers would be here long term or just for 1-2months. Who will cover the running costs when all the sponsers are gone?

Being a "neutral & open public forum", you still need to pay to upkeep the forum. We're not required to pay to be a registered user or to download.
A little exchange in being slightly biased and not very public forum, is what keeps this forum up and running.

Nothing is free in this world, even Yahoo Mail and Geocities contains advertisements. And you can't control what they advertise, unless you pay.

my two cents..