Well Wayne addressed this a bit but let me reemphasize it so that it may sink in.
ryangassxx said:
Most of us here are indeed paying customers and that money certainly far exceeds the costs of operating and hosting this site. Don't even TRY and tell me otherwise.
Actually the vast majority of the users are not premium subscribers, if you think you have facts to support otherwise, you better go back and check your figures. Once more a blatantly false, and unsupported statement. So not only will I TRY and tell you otherwise, I will tell you, once
again you are talking about issues that you have no facts to support. BTW, I suspect that you have no idea what the monthly cost of running this site is.
ryangassxx said:
And you'd know that because the topic was allowed to remain open for all of about 7 minutes... I'll have you know that i had indeed received PMs from more than one member agreeing with my views, and had the topic been allowed to remain open you might have seen more people express the same opinion.
So is it that you don't know what you're talking about or was the topic intentionally closed for the sake of preventing this particular view from being expressed by the members?
Once again, you express ideas that are not supported by the facts. 7 Minutes? Go back and look again; the first response (again as previously stated, disagreeing with you) was posted 11 minutes after your post. Oh wait, were you trying to be sarcastic...it is hard to tell since the majority of you posts contain untruths and inaccuracies.
ryangassxx said:
Oh yeah and one note worth pointing out,.. Who's the author of this topic? Oh, yeah, another member other than myself.. And why was this topic created? Uhm, probably because the other topic was CLOSED PREMATURELY....
This topic was created because Scott also wondered about the reason topics that have an adequate answer get closed, and I will repeat again, since you don't seem to understand the first time something is explained, read above for the answer as to why.
ryangassxx said:
Apparently there is merit to my argument.. So maybe instead of trying to shoot me down, you should just swallow your attitude for a minute and LISTEN! Or,.. you can run your forum your way, and find yourself with alot less members some day..
Suppose you take your own advice, and instead of trying to involve yourself in a war of words (that obviously you are ill prepared to wage) you "just swallow your attitude" and listen to what the vast majority of people who occupy this site say. As far as the "lot less members" threat you seem to be in love with, consider this fact; if you and a dozen of your friends left the site for good, it would represent a 0.01% blip in the membership. If you were to leave alone, it would mean a 0.000009% loss of membership, I think we would survive in either case; I mean, after all, we were doing pretty good before 12/26/2006 when you joined.