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[Subhumanoidal]

I think it's a little pity that you have to pay extra for PMs here. I'm sure there are also people here who have little money and for whom even a dollar a month is a lot of money. Isn't the aim of forums like this one to bring people together? I think it's a pity that a payment barrier is being put in front of this to a certain extent. Of course, running the forum also generates certain costs. But there are certainly other ways to finance them.

They've tried other tactics in the past to try to avoid charging people. None of them worked out.

 

[Lynx]

I think it's a little pity that you have to pay extra for PMs here. I'm sure there are also people here who have little money and for whom even a dollar a month is a lot of money. Isn't the aim of forums like this one to bring people together? I think it's a pity that a payment barrier is being put in front of this to a certain extent. Of course, running the forum also generates certain costs. But there are certainly other ways to finance them.

At the end of the day this forum is private property. You can accept what is offered for free or you can pay for what is offered for a cost.

I elect to accept what is offered for free and not pay anything for what is offered at a cost.

If you wish to partake of the services that are offered at a cost, the cost is not very much. I hear it is quite cheap. But that is your choice.

To assume that any service should by rights be provided for free is to assume the owner of this site somehow owes us something. That is a false assumption.

 

[Lynx]

I think it's a little pity that you have to pay extra for PMs here. I'm sure there are also people here who have little money and for whom even a dollar a month is a lot of money. Isn't the aim of forums like this one to bring people together? I think it's a pity that a payment barrier is being put in front of this to a certain extent. Of course, running the forum also generates certain costs. But there are certainly other ways to finance them.

I mean really! Of all the egotistical assumptions! To even insinuate that the owner of this forum somehow owes us something!

That's gratitude for you. He provides this open forum at no charge, but I guess that's not enough.

 

[Coll2-8]

I mean really! Of all the egotistical assumptions! To even insinuate that the owner of this forum somehow owes us something!

That's gratitude for you. He provides this open forum at no charge, but I guess that's not enough.

Where did I say that the operator owes us anything? I just expressed my opinion that I think it's a pity. (If "pity" is a to hard term I appologise, english isn't my nativ language.) I neither attacked nor condemned the owner for that. Instead you accuse me of being egositic. Thank you! So I'm selfish when I think of people who can't afford it, like the user Blain, for example.

You could also make other functions subject to costs. For example, uploading pictures, which also generates much more traffic and requires more web space than text messages. In my opinion, this would make more sense and is less essential if the purpose of the forum is to connect people. That's just my opinion and not an accusation against the owner of the forum.

 

[Lynx]

Where did I say that the operator owes us anything? I just expressed my opinion that I think it's a pity. (If "pity" is a to hard term I appologise, english isn't my nativ language.) I neither attacked nor condemned the owner for that. Instead you accuse me of being egositic. Thank you! So I'm selfish when I think of people who can't afford it, like the user Blain, for example.

You could also make other functions subject to costs. For example, uploading pictures, which also generates much more traffic and requires more web space than text messages. In my opinion, this would make more sense and is less essential if the purpose of the forum is to connect people. That's just my opinion and not an accusation against the owner of the forum.

Opinions are fine. Nothing wrong with a lot of opinions.

But that particular opinion, phrased in that specific manner, indicated the owner of this forum was somehow remiss in his duties to those who frequent his forum. In my opinion I strongly disagree.

 

[Coll2-8]

You are interpreting something into this and implying something that I never said! Not very nice.

 

[Lynx]

You are interpreting something into this and implying something that I never said! Not very nice.

Perhaps. In a text-based interface it is not always easy to discern tone of the voice, so I might have misinterpreted what you said.

Isn't the aim of forums like this one to bring people together? I think it's a pity that a payment barrier is being put in front of this to a certain extent.

This part right here is what I was looking at. It seems like you are saying that private messages should by all rights and reason be free by definition of what this forum is, and if private messages are not free then this is something wrong that needs to be fixed.

Is that not what you meant by this?