Honestly, a lot of the professional content on the web today is awful. I say let it burn. I've met quite a few people who attempt to ~"get rich quick" or "retir

Honestly, a lot of the professional content on the web today is awful. I say let it burn. I've met quite a few people who attempt to ~"get rich quick" or "retire early" off of something which passionate hobbyists did for the love of it. They might be "professionals" in the sense that they're now attempting to use such an enterprise as their sole source of income, but much of this "professional" content is garbage. Hobbyist blogs, on the other hand, typically have great content, because the people writing it created it out of a desire to share their knowledge, not to drive ad clicks. There can be some overlap, and I've definitely seen what I would consider good content with ads on the side, but I largely believe that content created to drive ad revenue is a business which pollutes the web. Tumblr, GeoCities, etc had / have a ton of awesome content, and it's not typically the creators who are getting paid to put it there. YouTube does share ad revenue above a certain threshold, and I think that works pretty well.