I figure he maybe lives in an apartment so he has to pay rent and utilities and maybe he has a car and has to make car payments to so it eats away his money from paying for WP? I don't know his lifestyle so I wouldn't know. I'm always coming up with logical explanations like a Lisa Simpson.
Who CARES. Yeah, 8k ain't a huge amount of money,
but he doesn't really do much for the site. Hell, there
were a lot of us there who could use a few extra bucks -
should it have been spread around?
As to the advertising, OBVIOUSLY he's just trying to
draw more people in, so that he can make even more
money. Again, NOTHING would be wrong with that, if
the site was clearly a commercial one - but begging people
for money, while already making a profit, while not really
revealing that the site was pulling anything in, was not kosher.