When the SDMB switches to free posting, will members who haven’t payed receive the full benefits of regular members, except for ads, of course, or will they be like guests, unable to search or have signatures?
Fair question.
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From the initial post announcing the move to free posting/pay-to-avoid-ads.
This would appear to indicate that the only benefit from paying will be to eliminate the ads. This is consistent with the fact that they really don’t WANT you to pay to eliminate ads.
Fine with me, I won’t pay. But you can also bet that I won’t be looking at ads.
I love our dear admins as much as the next fellow, alterego. But I have been forced to come to the conclusion that they are somehow managing to be just getting used to this internet thing still.
We have so many web-savvy members that many of them will just use adblock plugins for their browsers, so I’d think, for this set at least, that paying might be preferable.