Scooty - 10:20 pm on Aug 3, 2009 (gmt 0)

I have found that charging a fee depends on your audience or niche. Unless you have some really really good content that isn't given away on a hundred other sites then charing a fee is feasible. One thin I learned is dont wait too long to charge a fee as your members will be put off by denying them access to the good stuff.

I once ran y site for free helping solve problems and one day I had enough and told everyone I was going to start charging admission to the site and the site died in less than a week. Although I explained most sections would still be free they misread and took offense to the fee.