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EagleRiverDee
Well-known member
I have a suggestion for the Site Admin and Super Mods to consider. At this point, it may be too late but I am curious if it would be considered and whether other forum members think it's a good compromise.
By far the greatest disagreement with the paid membership is from people who feel that they built Snowest and that their contributions have been the foundation for the site. I can understand how people who have been here 11 years, or whose contributions often helped people repair their sled or mod their sled or learn to ride...I can see how those people would object to paying now. Particularly if they are paying to contribute knowledge or assistance.
Perhaps the Site Admin should consider retroactively offering long term members and/or highly technical contributors free memberships. New members and people that are here to learn (like me) still pay.
I would think that this would only offer free membership to a small group of deserving folks, so it shouldn't represent a financial hardship to SW. And certainly it's a blow to SW to lose these people to the other forums, because then a lot of the content that people like me are willing to pay to read will no longer be posted. I know that as a paying member, I would rather see those technically skilled folks be given free memberships and continue to contribute than to lose them from this forum.
Maybe this is too late, maybe the damage is done and those members won't return...but maybe not.
Anyway, that's just my 2 cents. Take it or leave it, as you will.
Dee
By far the greatest disagreement with the paid membership is from people who feel that they built Snowest and that their contributions have been the foundation for the site. I can understand how people who have been here 11 years, or whose contributions often helped people repair their sled or mod their sled or learn to ride...I can see how those people would object to paying now. Particularly if they are paying to contribute knowledge or assistance.
Perhaps the Site Admin should consider retroactively offering long term members and/or highly technical contributors free memberships. New members and people that are here to learn (like me) still pay.
I would think that this would only offer free membership to a small group of deserving folks, so it shouldn't represent a financial hardship to SW. And certainly it's a blow to SW to lose these people to the other forums, because then a lot of the content that people like me are willing to pay to read will no longer be posted. I know that as a paying member, I would rather see those technically skilled folks be given free memberships and continue to contribute than to lose them from this forum.
Maybe this is too late, maybe the damage is done and those members won't return...but maybe not.
Anyway, that's just my 2 cents. Take it or leave it, as you will.
Dee
