Why is 'Ethical F2P monetisation' a good fit for the site?

I don't think it's a good fit for the site, but I will admit to leaving it alone (for the time) as something of a litmus test for the rest of the community.

We as diamond moderators get a lot of flack for exercising our unilateral close votes aggressively on this site. There is some merit to that criticism: as diamond moderators, we should be acting as exception handlers rather than active enforcers. There are several reasons having to step in as frequently as we do is bad:

• It shapes the community around our bias rather than that of the larger userbase. There are four of us, compared to many thousands of non-diamonds. That kind of skew in the direction of the community is undesirable. It goes against much of the StackExchange philosophy.
• It reinforces the precedent that we will step in, leaving the people with the power to vote-to-close less interested in doing so because one of us will take care of it.
• It means the quality bar of available questions fluctuates drastically when the four of us aren't around or as active (typically on weekends).
• It upsets people whose questions are closed due to a perception (grounded in reality) of unfairness or arbitrary closure.

I worry about the quality level of questions here, especially since the Graphics Programming SE got promoted to beta and will likely skim off a good portion of our good questions. Part of the problem with question quality is not having the community have a clear understanding of what it's guidelines should be, and if it isn't capable of exercising those guidelines itself it cannot develop that clear picture.

In the past I have justified most of my unilateral decisions by arguing that question quality needs to be kept high to keep the site afloat and we don't currently have enough active 3k+ users to close bad stuff quickly enough for neophyte-but-well-meaning users to post answers and start reinforcing a precedent that those bad questions are not okay.

So when I saw the question, and its similar in structure to a few other borderline questions we've had recently, I decided not to unilaterally close it to see if the community would do so instead. Indeed, I had noted a slight but visible increase in the number of community-closed questions recently. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like enough has changed quite yet; review stats suggest that only a handful of users with close-vote power actually bother to review questions.