Originally posted by Blue Only if someone donates to his "PayPal" account. If people read this thread, do you really think it helps his case regarding donations?
There is no doubt. Pentax Forums is a huge, active site with a high page rank, and conversations like this provide significant Google juice to KR, thereby leading to traffic. Is someone reading this conversation going to go directly to his site and donate? Probably not. But simply by virtue of having the conversation, we positively affect his site's appearance in search queries, and the donations (and more importantly, I'm guessing, clicks on affiliate links) increase in direct proportion to traffic. I'm quite sure that KR smiles deviously every time he sees a thread like this. This is a solid case of "any publicity is good publicity."