# Charter subscribers, renew now! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 4, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750 "2007-04-04T19:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/21 "2007-04-10T05:43:11Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] I’d also like to do more than one year. I’m almost positive my last renewal was for two years. [/QUOTE] You can renew for two years – but you have to do one year at a time – and you have to schedule it so you renew for a year and then return when you have less than 365 days worth of current subscription going on – then and only then can you renew for the second year. But sure, two years like that is a good feeling, so go for it! ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/22 "2007-04-10T18:06:56Z")
Thanks for the reminder, but I think I’ll just fade away this year. ---
**Author:** ![wonder9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c57346/32.png) [@wonder9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder9)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/23 "2007-04-13T23:35:54Z")
Is it embarrassing to have only 200 some-odd (some odder than others…) post yet have the cherished “Charter Member” designation? I just type really, really slow. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/24 "2007-04-15T12:00:06Z")
Nyeh. It’s all part of the club, boy. Kind of like the Masons, right? I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/25 "2007-04-17T17:16:09Z")
I think I’m in… if my bank doesn’t refuse the PayPal transfer… they’re funny about shit 'round about these hyere parts. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/26 "2007-04-17T18:07:19Z")
BTW, why does the subscription page ask for my postal address? Since you don’t have to physically ship me anything, that falls into the category of “none of your business”. If it would require a mod to a VB template to get rid of it, OK, but if you can configure it not to ask for it, you might do so. In the meantime, I hope you don’t mind a phony address, since it won’t let you leave it blank. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/27 "2007-04-17T21:31:05Z")
> [@](#): > > BTW, why does the subscription page ask for my postal address? Since you don’t have to physically ship me anything, that falls into the category of “none of your business”. If it would require a mod to a VB template to get rid of it, OK, but if you can configure it not to ask for it, you might do so. In the meantime, I hope you don’t mind a phony address, since it won’t let you leave it blank. I think the credit card companies use the billing address as part of the verification process. So by filling in a phoney, it might make them think your card’s been stolen. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/28 "2007-04-17T23:01:31Z")
[QUOTE=wonder9] Is it embarrassing to have only 200 some-odd (some odder than others…) post yet have the cherished “Charter Member” designation? I just type really, really slow. [/QUOTE] Wow, you’ve even got me beat on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/29 "2007-04-21T11:33:15Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] My rage at those better than me! [/QUOTE] “…at those better than _I_.” ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/30 "2007-04-22T15:49:41Z")
Is there a preferred way to pay? I would have preferred to use PayPal (like I always have before) but then I thought about Paypal’s fee, and I wondered if the board gets more of the $7.48 if we pay directly rather than via Paypal. Or maybe it’s the other way around, and merchant fees are more than Paypal’s cut? Or maybe it doesn’t matter…? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/31 "2007-04-22T17:10:39Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] “…at those better than _I_.” [/QUOTE] True, although there is some wriggle room in informal speech and writing. From the [Columbia Guide to Standard American English:](http://www.bartleby.com/68/25/825.html) > [@](#): > > Edited English and most Standard levels of speech above Casual, plus all written levels above Informal, insist on He is better [at basketball] than I [am]. Than is a subordinating conjunction introducing a clause whose subject should be in the nominative case; the clause serves as adverbial modifier of better, in many instances with the full clause suppressed and only the conjunction and pronoun actually spoken or written. In Casual, Impromptu, and some Informal use, however, you will also find He is better [at basketball] than me, where than is construed as a preposition, with its object properly accusative. The prepositional phrase then is an adverbial modifier of better. My sister is better at math than me is Casual and Impromptu, and appropriate only at those levels and in their written imitations. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/32 "2007-04-22T22:09:37Z")
[QUOTE=aldiboronti] True, although there is some wriggle room in informal speech and writing. From the [Columbia Guide to Standard American English:](http://www.bartleby.com/68/25/825.html) [/QUOTE] I doubt that Sister Mary Dominic would let you slide on that. She’d make you say "all those better than I (am), Then, “all those better than me am”. “Now, **Mr. (Ms) Autolycus**, write that correctly on the blackboard fifty times.” mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/33 "2007-04-22T22:38:27Z")
[QUOTE=FatBaldGuy] Go to User CP and click on Paid Subscriptions. [/QUOTE] Sigh…Worse peon here. WHERE is this User CP? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/34 "2007-04-22T22:53:28Z")
[QUOTE=CanvasShoes] Sigh…Worse peon here. WHERE is this User CP? [/QUOTE] Top of (ANY) board page once logged in, at far left of the top toolbar; this toolbar is below the header that tells you where on the board you are, welcome, when you last visited. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/35 "2007-04-22T22:56:41Z")
[QUOTE=JRDelirious] Top of (ANY) board page once logged in, at far left of the top toolbar; this toolbar is below the header that tells you where on the board you are, welcome, when you last visited. [/QUOTE] Thanks! At least this time it was mere old age eyesight, and not my normal blonde ditziness! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zahara2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/53a042/32.png) [@zahara2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zahara2)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/36 "2007-04-23T13:48:17Z")
why does it say member and not Charter Member under my name since I’ve not missed the deadline?? ---
**Author:** ![zahara2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/53a042/32.png) [@zahara2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zahara2)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/37 "2007-04-23T13:50:26Z")
:smack: Oh…I stand corrected. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/38 "2007-04-23T23:54:31Z")
I have a question-if the site is giving me problems, and I’m not able to pay before time runs out-do I lose my charter status, even if the problem is at your end? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/39 "2007-04-24T17:58:15Z")
Not sure the problem is on our end. I’m still looking for another report on this so we can run it down. So far I haven’t heard this from anyone else. But you’re covered now, correct? So not an issue for you. We take all factors into consideration where this sort of thing is concerned. I am sure Jerry (who is the arbiter on this) would not remove someone from Charter Membership where they tried to subscribe in good faith and could not because of technical problems that were found to be a fault in the system. Jerry is very fair. Jerry is also a stickler for scheduling and will have zero sympathy for someone who lets time get away from them and then wants to resubscribe at the Charter rate further down the road. Our advice to all Charter Members who have yet to resubscribe: Don’t put it off. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-subscribers-renew-now/398750/40 "2007-04-24T19:58:23Z")
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