Can’t remember who it was, but a Doper (maybe LSLGuy?) pointed out that our existence as a board may be dependent on the Chicago Sun-Times not realizing that it still owns us - and that it would be easy for a disgruntled ex-Doper (say, a banned troll) to go into the Pit, harvest a lot of the nastiest stuff there, and then present it to Sun-Times management in an attempt to get us shut down - considering that we aren’t an asset to Sun-Times at all, in a business sense.
Sure, it hasn’t happened in the many years the Pit has existed, but it could be done.