Membership fees for Forum access

[Tom Edgerton]

It's hard to sift through this, because I have a website with Cynthia, and get access for free. I think this is appropriate, as a side benefit for investing in her site. So it's hard to put myself in a reader's place.

But a few thoughts:

1) If I had to pay, I'd rather pay a nominal one-time subscription fee up front. Pay once and be done.

2) Cynthia, if you take advertising, keep it classy. One of the reasons I'm here is the professional look of the site.

3) I don't think my attitude about paying to read would be influenced by finding out that Cynthia was making an enormous profit on the Forum alone, but my participation in it might. This involves an element of trust, which I'm willing to do. But there is a break point between covering the costs of maintaining the forum and raw profit, beyond which--to Marvin's point--the heavy contributors, or at least the moderators, should share in any excess. Just so you'll know where I'm coming from, I don