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@stepdown
While you put a lot of work into the forum, the forum is the bricks and mortar, and an online community is more than that. All the helpful posts, and even the less helpful ones, they're not created by you or people that you employ, they're all effectively volunteers if you see what I mean.
Of course you shouldn't have to pay for the server costs, but the reason people have been commenting on "your rights" is because while the structure is yours, a lot of the content really isn't.
My main point was meant to be if people don't realise how much it costs to run this server, they're either going to think that everything is working fine without them or that donations are for a new saddle or something. Put a little "Server Costs - £0/£0" sign up and people might be less worried about what you're up to with the cash as they know it's going into keeping the forum running.