Originally Posted by
John Terefenko
. But as I said do not block videos or photos only to non subscribers. this again is such a childish thing. If you do make it a money thing you definetly will lose a ton of members. It is a different scenario when someone forces you to pay for the use of a forum that you do contribute to in other ways than if you ask for donations or some sort of fund raiser.
Hi John. Member of the core group responding here.
The real motive behind the phased removal of priviledges seems to be to get peoples' attention. Not to be "childish". As Keith has said, many people dont read announcements and didnt know the change was coming. But now there have been a load of "hey what happened" posts that resulted in people finding out. I agree that can be construed as putting the squeeze on Members. I dont believe that was Keith's intent. And honestly, I think taking this approach was smart - bring the coming change to peoples' attention and showing "ya dont know what ya got till it's gone." It has surprised me that a number of Members have subscribed to get their pictures or PM priviledges back. But I know that many others have quietly (or not so quietly) left rather than do so. That's a personal choice. Nobody has been forced to contribute.
Edit: I think the days of the "free" internet are numbered. But I guess we'll see....
Fred
Last edited by Frederick Skelly; 05-11-2019 at 1:57 PM.
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