[Basic_Strategy]

why keep simping to SPH's forum? the users are the real content generator and it is they that give the forum life, not the mods nor sph.. 

just take their business and go elsewhere.... for goodness sake.

Assuming I understand your question right... 

It is because other alternate forums don't have as good a design or features as HWZ does. And also inertia: once you build up a critical mass in a forum it is very hard to force a migration of said community to someplace new to start all over again. 

I honestly don't believe HWZ/EDMW's value to SPH is monetary. Its value is probably intelligence more than anything else, of what the dissenting sentiments on the ground are. Precisely because of its infamous reputation for being a cesspool, it keeps the worst sorts of Sinkies on the Internet there in one place to monitor.