mayor - 8:07 am on Aug 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

I think the time has come for a private forum with paid membership. Let's face it folks, many of the world's experts hang out here and give out free advice to newbies, some of which probably comes back at them in the form of new competition. Then there's the lurkers who only take but don't return.

There's other forums where the newbies and lurkers can get free advice and many of the experienced people that hang out here also hang out at those forums where they also contribute.

If WebmasterWorld switches to a private paid-membership forum it will raise the forum and the dialog in its threads to a more professional level, separating it from the others.