Quote Originally Posted by Normb666 View Post
Hi, Peter (Postroom). As I said in a previous post, I've no prob with people who pop by now and then, and make the odd posts, not paying. So you're alright there, but as I've also said, the club costs money to run, so if you'd like to avail yourself of our efforts other than occasional forum use, it'd be cool if you joined up and helped out. Mr. Darkspeed decided to take a pop at me for saying this, and then compounded that by declaring he had no intention of joining. Anyway, we'll see what he does, but I'm not holding my breath....

As Steve (Hollytree) said, there's a link at the top of each page that says "Join" so click on that to have a look. Cost is ?26-summat per year. We can't force peeps to join but we're very small - I think about 120 members worldwide - so we're keen that people do join if they're getting some sort of benefit from us. And believe it or not, we really are very matey. Sarcasm and general belittlement are an extra cost

Actually I've just looked at the bottom of the "Forum" home page and although it says there are 1435 members, only 103 are active, i.e. paid-up.....

Nope, another loose interpretation of fact, some furious backpedalling, aaaaaaaaand nope active does not mean paid up.

But you are correct in the fact that paid members are a small minority of the registered users on this board. It's also easy to see that the most active part of this board is the free access area. The members accessed area see's very few posts.

What improves membership is actually being a friendly accessible club that provides good value for money. Not telling people what you are "not doing" for your paying membership, just because people actually use a free access to ask what a club is doing on a particular day. But please go for it - dive in and change the settings to deny all access apart from SEC member - embrace your conviction that Free Users are unnecessary freeloaders.

And no, I will not be paying to join even if you are brave or stupid enough to make it members only - its just not particularly good value for money - may have been during another age under different management - but not now.