The main perk at this point would be being able to be send PM's to people, Although when the chat rooms were working, if you had a paid subscription, you did not have to wait in line until there were no people with paid subscriptions waiting to use the mic... Another current perk is with a paid subscription you can choose the title that you have under your member name... most people it reflects how many post they've made, such as senior or junior or active or new member etc (that is tied to the number of posts) but other people you might see something like outright trouble or in the case of forum mod, he chose chief idiot or something like that...