I Miss "SomeBeach"

[deermagnet]

"It seems he was being hassled by some of our members privately about not being a site supporter."

This issue of members receiving unfriendly PM's has come up before. It's very easy to avoid these kind of PM's. I totally disabled PM's for my membership and hid my email from other members using my control panel. You can just allow PM's from a few buddies if you like. I also went to stealth mode when logged in that hides my online status so no one can stalk me in the forums.

If someone needs to contact me, they can do it in public on the forums.

Mark Griffin

[Riff Raff]

If someone needs to contact me, they can do it in public on the forums.

Mark Griffin

DeerMagnet--- I just wanted to make contact with you in public to verify our dinner-date for this weekend. I realize it's your turn to treat, so I prefer a nice blush wine and my T-bone steak cooked medium rare. Oh, and make sure the dancing girls arrive promptly this time for after dinner entertainment.

Back on topic, I too was initially prodded via private E-Mails & PM's to become a site supporter shortly after logging-on as a new member. A better monetary motivator for me to donate was not being labeled as a "Zoid" (before Moncha changed the format).

[pbkid]

i just dont understand the personal prodding for someone to pay for a site that is designed to be optionary.

scott has said mulitple times that he feels very strongly that the site is donation only, not membership-fee driven.

so, why should anyone have the 'power' to tell another person they need to donate? our MODERATOR tells us no.....

i know that i was a member here for at least a year before i donated. i would have left if someone forced me to pay before i was ready.

[Marlin]

i just dont understand the personal prodding for someone to pay for a site that is designed to be optionary.

scott has said mulitple times that he feels very strongly that the site is donation only, not membership-fee driven.

so, why should anyone have the 'power' to tell another person they need to donate? our MODERATOR tells us no.....

i know that i was a member here for at least a year before i donated. i would have left if someone forced me to pay before i was ready.

I just read all of the posts in this thread, I never saw anything that said he was forced to pay?
I thought he was just nudged to support, I am in a similar boat as Bart, this is the only site I pay for, and as far as I am concerned, it is most certainly worth it just in archived info alone.
The concept that anything is free is completely false, be it something as simple as a streetlight or the fact that you can choose to pay or not, nothing is free.
The library is paid for by taxes, which means those that have jobs and pay taxes are paying for it, and those who do not......have "free" access to it without paying a dime. Kind of like universal health care, cash for clunkers....