I'm surprised you are buying an ad for FPH sole because FPH is the current cornerstone of the site; other subverses are from FPH members creating a expanded subverse list.  While true that doesn't count the non-members who are just visiting Voat who may not be from FPH.  I (and I assume the community) greatly appreciates that you are willing to spend personal income on promoting this community, but I am curious to why. I assume your response will be "for a larger community", but I want to know your intention for the larger community as the intention can be on a broad spectrum from malice to greatness. I don't know the reasoning, therefore I must approach the idea from a neutral position. To do so otherwise would be altering my perception through my biases. I'm curious about the direction and goals of the community in promoting FPH in a social context.  I want the sub to be back to its former greatness that we had on reddit. Not the shell of which we have become. I want piggies from tumblr and or reddit to be able to point at us and say "THOSE EVIL FPHERS" like the good old days. I want the days where we were constantly brigaded by pigs because of how much we offended them.  At this current state I think the ad is unnecessary as FPH is a major facet within voat. If users want to join FPH I expect a large majority have committed. I think the alternate option for spending would be to continue with giveaways/contests as that promotes an internal group collective and theoretical member benefit. The concept of an individual gain from a group collective is intrinsically valued over the idea of simply being a member of a group ("I'm a member and I get this!"). People will want to join if they see the benefit. As the userbase stands currently, I imagine most have committed or declined FPH. To promote an internal community would invoke desire to join within voat members not currently in the community.  The ad wouldn't just be for FPH itself though but to sustain Voat as a whole. But I can't in good heart buy/donate to a site that doesn't respond to mail or its creators active enough to do so.   As an aside I would be more concerned with the large delay in admin response. It could easily be (and most likely) an issue with the admin schedule, they have a lot on their plate; but FPH will always be seen as a negative community and if the admins want to evolve their site, FPH will need to be pushed to the outside. I don't want to make broad stroke accusations, but we as a community need to understand that we could actively be neglected, this is not unusual - we are now on voat, not reddit. It is possible the admins do not want FPH ads as they fear it can damage the account creation percentage. We need always be vigilante as reddit is not abnormal, FPH is abrasive to the social sphere - and we need to change that.  Except the admins aren't active anywhere which is where my concern comes from. And it isn't just FPH ads not being placed. It is ANY ads from all people. There hasn't been a proper Voat ad in awhile. Also. When the majority of a community is a specific group you would think they would go with that group rather than just pilot the minority. If I missed something let me know.