Dude, that's what'll happen if you have a HUGE board with very very loose rules. (At least regarding cannabis sales)

Tons of traffic + free advertising = plenty of business opportunity for MoM peeps.

Either you allow advertising or you don't. At WT we don't allow any advertising without the person getting the express permission of the staff before hand, which prevents the mass amount of one-post advertisers from clogging up the forums.

But, with the amount of regulars here it doesn't really seem to drastically hinder regular discussion. These boards still have many cool topics and cool members, even with the MoM stuff going on. I wouldn't say they "run" the boards per say..but I hear ya. Meh...it's all about what you're looking for.