Well, I'll jump in here. Those of you with history from PF know that financial issues were at least a significant, if not predominant, reason for Ben's disappearance. I certainly don't want that circumstance to reappear.
My first thought was to get a court order forcing SeanB to wear a GPS ankle bracelet but he'll probably whine and ***** and I dont want that circumstance either!!
So....what are the alternatives to the advertising? (which I'm not fond of but I don't think I can complain unless we come up with a viable alternative)
Consider:
1. Anyone can come to this site and read all of the posts all of the time. For many, that would be all they needed and a free service the forum provides.
2. If you chose to post with questions or simply join the fun, you would pay an annual fee of 10 dollars.
a) You could choose to pay 10 annually or 25 for 3 years, etc. (something like that)
b) TFP lifetime memberships would be discontinued on, say, October 1st, 2007 but all current lifetimes
and those joining between now and Oct 1 would receive three years membership from that cut-off date.
3. I recognize that many of you give of your time freely now. Having personal experience, I can tell you it's is very different
between doing something because you enjoy it and doing something because you HAVE to. SeanB has an obligation to the forum and it's members none of the rest of us have. We can drop out for weeks and come back unscathed.....he cannot. It's obvious to me that he currently enjoys it, but as this forum mushrooms (and it is) it's going to be more and more burdensome on his time....we need to find a solution to that.
I hope we see an active discussion in this thread (but not quite with the intensity of that SWG thread :lol: ) that will offer up some positve ideas on this issue.
If we don't come up with something, let's fall back on the GPS idea and let him whine all he wants!!!!