Who's forcing these people to share their knowledge? It's not a job, is it? They do it because they're decent people, not because they expect anything in return. Christ it's an ad. You know, the billions and billions of things you see on pretty much every single other website on the entire internet yet here you're whinging over a few pixels on a forum you get to use for free.
I suspect this is the result of them "taking a hard look at themselves" and rather than make cuts to the services / make staff redundant / shut down the forum, they're putting an ad on the site. Crack on I say.
Have you considered learning a bit about how businesses operate before commenting in such a dim manner?
