[Lushh]

I was used to being on forums but not used to being offered Amazon GCs, PayPal cash or any other type of monetary compensation for interactions with others. The setting was that of people being there because they were genuinely interested in the specific type of activities. Either someone told them about all that was happening there or they stumbled upon an interesting discussion and decided to sign up and participate. It was more of everyone sharing ideas and experiences and so each benefits one way or another. If there were ever any complaints it was never that the "pay" was too small because there wasn't any.

Now I see forums offering money for posts and there could be one or any number of reasons for this. Is it a way to attract and keep members loyal? Is this just a token of appreciation to say thanks for being here when you could be elsewhere? Is it with the hope that members make contributions that will in turn earn the forum some (or even enough) money to continue its existence? When people are so quick to register on platforms of interest to them with no expectations of being paid for such, why do PTP forums pay? What's your insight on this?

[mrki444]

Reason is everything what you suggested.
Some people like participate on forums because of themes (forum gives you more anonymity than social media networks).
Some come to earn on PTP forum.
Some people pay users on forum so they stay active and entire forum bring them money. It is not easy keep forum in profit but there are ways. @Fergal can tell more about it.

[JASPREET]

You have yourself mentioned the reason and for me, I only come back to a forum and participate because it pays and we can expect quality answers and if there is no pay for posting then users may not be interested in replying

[augusta]

But it is good thing that the forums pay. Alot of people take parts because of the little pays without that there will get from the forums. Maybe learn a little from the posting of others.

[JASPREET]

The fact that these forums pay and some of these pay really well and some pay less but still, the information they provide is quite useful for fellow users and that helps them in earning online indirectly too

[Streamguy69]

I am not just in it for the earning. Yes it is a good incentive but I enjoy interacting with others from all over. it makes for a fun community to be in

[Yugocean]

I had joined many forums for some purpose, like to get answers to a question. And as soon as the work was done, I left them. Paying Forums retain members, keep the site active which attracts advertisers who needs traffic, needs customers, so they advertises among active people, which generates income for the forum.
So, forum pays.

[JASPREET]

There was a time when I was only joining forums to earn more and learning was secondary for me but these days I am into both and we should never stop learning as it can help us anytime in life

[Katrina]

Paying members to post will gain more traffic to the forum and that in turn benefits the owner because he has built up a site that has excellent stats. This is attractive to someone who wants to advertise on the site because the person is aware of the high exposure the ads will get.

Also, there is a degree of loyalty from members who are paid. They are going to keep returning for the money and trust that the owner will pay what he promises. It's a win win for everyone!

[JASPREET]

if PTP sports paying then there won't be any users that will regularly participate on the website and that won't work for any website and not many will be able to stay up to the user's expectations

[skysnap]

Most of the PTP forums pay because they want to populate the forum with content and later sell it to the parties who need high traffic site. Other motivations I don't know.

[JASPREET]

They need to pay for the activity, We can see what happened with bizdustry, they are still paying but you need VIP to get paid on your own and even with that there are very few active users

[Hilda]

I think those who start forums also benefit in some way if there forum is active. So they try to pay it's members so that they contiu posting hence there forum business becomes successful. It is just the same as starting an app in some way they benefit.

[Lushh]

Most of the PTP forums pay because they want to populate the forum with content and later sell it to the parties who need high traffic site. Other motivations I don't know.

Yeah, I came to realise this as well after observing the behaviour of a couple new forums. Shortly after there was enough content they were abruptly sold.

[augusta]

I think those who start forums also benefit in some way if there forum is active. So they try to pay it's members so that they contiu posting hence there forum business becomes successful. It is just the same as starting an app in some way they benefit.

Yes it is symbiosis kind of relationship I help you grow your forum and you help me financially. So at the end of the day everyone is growing

[JASPREET]

For me, if bmf stops paying then there is no point sticking with it and I will only visit when I like to know about a website or its status

[Ash]

It's a type of business most of the time. Paid-to-post forums are easier to grow in terms of content because you can find users easily. The only problem is of course keeping that growth over time because it's a very expensive business. The bigger your forum, the bigger ad opportunities you have which can help you make some good money