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Supporters get a substantial discount off the pubcon fees - however, I pay the fee to help support the site.
It depends on how you use your privilege. My subscription has paid for itself in $ terms many times over because of the contacts I made in stickies and at the conferences.
If you just subscribe, then just lurk or simply ask about your website questions, you won't appreciate its value.
Ash
Maybe if I was posting more and actually answering more questions than I ask, I'd feel less inclined to support the board financially.
Except the argument of keeping this site ad free and supporting the site that you love, is there any other good reason, for which I should be renewing my subscription?
Not that I could find... hence... no renewal from me.
Here's an excerpt from that thread, and summarizes at least in part how we think about the Supporters forum here at WebmasterWorld:
There is no advertising at WebmasterWorld. The only links you see are there during conference promotion time, when WebmasterWorld promotes the Search Conference.>charge everyone for membership
WebmasterWorld started free and will stay free for members.
> make the site more commercial with more banner ads and affiliate programs
That would go against the philosophy around here - no advertising!
> Always have a concern about making a contribution to anyone or any firm (including charitable organizations) without knowing the recipients true financial status.
The Supporters' Forum was started as a sincere "thank you" to the people who contributed some money to the running of WebmasterWorld. Now many of our members use it as a pay-to-play forum - they want to spend a little quality time 'behind the scenes' with other folks in a forum that has a bit less noise than the free public forum.
Those who don't want to (or can't) contribute to WebmasterWorld are always welcome to participate in the majority of the board's forums.
Thanks for being here, and being part of WebmasterWorld. And thanks for being concerned enough to want to talk about it.
There is a group of people who feel that they have gotten enough out of WebmasterWorld to want to contribute financially to the running of this site. To those people, as a thank you, the Supporters' Forum is there. We hope it serves as a valuable place for them, and a good way to say "Thanks" for the support.
There is never any pressure to contribute to WebmasterWorld. Like I said above, the free stuff will stay free. All that we hope for is that you come hang out a while, read, learn, and contribute whatever knowledge you can to keep WebmasterWorld the biggest, best, highest-quality forum out there.
