They are also people who actively hate "social networking" and just want to collect some visual inspirations without being fed with a bunch of advertisements. Thank you.
Sure, but you're not the one paying the bills. You're either the customer or the product.
This is true but I think pinterest and reddit have a similar problem where they really can't make their userbase too mad at them and they could either stunt their growth or users will jump ship. Either that or its the guiding philosophy to not make their userbase mad.
I feel like you're missing the entire point of how a social network site works and makes money