If you go to 'User CP' and under profile, you will see that it asks for your google adsense ID#. The more active you are, the more chances you have of your google ad showing up on the entire forum.
This is just one way of thanking the current and future members who will participate on the forum.
1800Webmasters.com is now a revenue sharing forum
Now I am going to be tempted to click the ads all the time 
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