nickao
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Something obviously happened we are not aware of and must have been Matthews breaking point. Wow, I leave the forum for two days and what changes!
I have no problem with it as it's Mathews forum. I know at least 3 woodworking forums where this is the case. And most every forum prohibits looking at pics and definitley posting without registering anyway.
This is the only forum where the administrator always asked the participants what they wanted and it seemed strange to me to begin with. Maybe now instead of 3500 people just reading while 20 people are posting will change. I would rather have 50% of the amount of people reading if the participation number grew in percentage. Too many people are just looking and not participating. The membership numbers have not increased that much, but the amount of guest reading has. And I for one was terribly hurt by the lack of donations. I think now the donations received will be more in the line with the future bandwidth of this forum.
Matthew asked us nicely to step up and enough people didn't. For the people that are members and did not donate, what did you really think the ramifications would be if you did not donate? This is still better than requiring a donation isn't it?
Nickao
I have no problem with it as it's Mathews forum. I know at least 3 woodworking forums where this is the case. And most every forum prohibits looking at pics and definitley posting without registering anyway.
This is the only forum where the administrator always asked the participants what they wanted and it seemed strange to me to begin with. Maybe now instead of 3500 people just reading while 20 people are posting will change. I would rather have 50% of the amount of people reading if the participation number grew in percentage. Too many people are just looking and not participating. The membership numbers have not increased that much, but the amount of guest reading has. And I for one was terribly hurt by the lack of donations. I think now the donations received will be more in the line with the future bandwidth of this forum.
Matthew asked us nicely to step up and enough people didn't. For the people that are members and did not donate, what did you really think the ramifications would be if you did not donate? This is still better than requiring a donation isn't it?
Nickao