# The only SDMB subscription thread you need **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278 "2004-03-25T04:27:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/41 "2004-03-25T11:06:49Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > You might as well gripe about paying to apply friction to an Amsterdam working girl’s clitty. **Larry** , I’ve never done this before, but can I use that for my sig? Provided I don’t get charged extra for the privilege of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/42 "2004-03-25T12:03:40Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > You and I must have a different idea of what exactly “content” is. If you don’t come here to read people’s posts, what brings you in? The colors? > > Without the alleged “content” in the threads to peruse, you wouldn’t be here, and the Chicago Reader wouldn’t have your five dollars. I played football the other day. At the end someone had the nerve to ask me for money to pay for the football pitch. I had to take them aside. “If you don’t come here to play with and against people”, I opinioned, “what brings you in? The fresh air?” “Without the opposition and teamwork I, and others, provide, no-one would be here and the Sports Facility wouldn’t have your money” I patiently explained. “No-one’s going to turn up to kick a ball about themselves. So it’s unreasonable that I should be asked to pay.” Imagine my surprise when I was called an “arse who’s up himself” and physical kicked across the carpark and out into the street. It’s the last time I’ll be playing for them, ungrateful sods! ---
**Author:** ![APOC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@APOC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APOC)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/43 "2004-03-25T12:11:30Z")
Can I ask a question ? Who will have access to my personal information ? Chicago Reader personnel only ? Mods and Admins ? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/44 "2004-03-25T12:14:53Z")
I’ve paid to play in chess tournaments. People watched for free. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/45 "2004-03-25T12:17:18Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > How about establishing a low lead-in price of five bucks for first-year subscriptions regardless of when folks sign up? Raise the price for renewals, with discounts for early re-upping. Sounds like a good way to encourage people to register sock puppets after their first year is up. I’m subscribing, incidentally (just too lazy at the moment). ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/46 "2004-03-25T12:24:56Z")
> [@Nightime](#): > > I just realized something: > > I’ve actually made more than $5 just by reading the SDMB! > I would never have found out about that RIAA settlement website if I didn’t see the thread on it, and I ended up getting nearly $14 for that. Enough for the first two years of membership here. > > I won’t be joining because I have no credit card or paypal, and I have reasons to hold on to my anonymity, but it is interesting that the price to join is so cheap that reading the SDMB can cover the cost of paying for it. I’m sure there are some dopers that would help you out in this regard. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/47 "2004-03-25T12:27:27Z")
I’d just like to say that for all that you’ve contributed to the SDMB **Sofa King** , that was about as lame a last post as you can get. And **Slacker** , you’re quite a piece of work. _I’ll_ be counting the days until the board is free of your content, good fucking riddence! ---
**Author:** ![HelenTroy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helentroy/32/86_2.png) [@HelenTroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenTroy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/48 "2004-03-25T12:49:20Z")
I have lurked for over a year, and all the whining and teeth nashing that has gone on over the site going to subscriptions made me sign-up. I have enjoyed reading many,not all, of the posts and I hope to become a regular contributer. So, I guess the new policy won’t turn all people away. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/49 "2004-03-25T13:11:39Z")
**Nightime** , I put through a subscription for someone who is mailing me a money order, and I know nothing about them other than the name on their email. So if privacy is a concern but you’d really like to stay, please feel free to drop me a line (email addy is in my profile). And welcome to the boards, **HelenTroy**! ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/50 "2004-03-25T13:20:55Z")
> [@HelenTroy](#): > > I have lurked for over a year, and all the whining and teeth nashing that has gone on over the site going to subscriptions made me sign-up. I have enjoyed reading many,not all, of the posts and I hope to become a regular contributer. So, I guess the new policy won’t turn all people away. Welcome to the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/51 "2004-03-25T13:22:47Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > Here’s the thing, folks. If I were meeting friends in a restaurant or even for a cup of tea, I’d pay money. If I were having a group of people over to my house, I’d pay money. For that matter, at the Games Night I go to once a month, I pay money both in the form of the games I bring and in the form of the odd bag of potato chips, etc. > > Entertainment, too, costs money. If you watch television, even if you don’t have cable, the television itself costs money. I knit for a hobby; the yarn and the needles cost money. Even reading books from the library costs money in terms of gas and wear and tear on the car or my shoes. The yarn for a couple of pairs of baby booties I’m making for someone cost more than my SDMB subscription (I already had the pattern and needles). > > I consider a lot of people here my friends. When I come here, I am entertained, sometimes enlightened, and my thoughts are most assuredly provoked. I get a chance to read opinions I would never come across in real life and try to understand why people hold them. What’s more, I get to do it at an hour of the day when not much else is going on (it’s about an hour before sunrise in my part of the world). In other words, while money’s about to become very tight right now, this place is worth every penny I paid to subscribe to it. I’ll happily pay $5.00 to raise a glass to you folks, especially since I don’t have to pay $5.00 for the contents of the glass! > > CJ beautiful CJ… that was very well said. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/52 "2004-03-25T13:26:26Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > I’d just like to say that for all that you’ve contributed to the SDMB **Sofa King** , that was about as lame a last post as you can get. > > And **Slacker** , you’re quite a piece of work. _I’ll_ be counting the days until the board is free of your content, good fucking riddence! Thanks for the send off. It’s amazing how people are treating those of us who aren’t staying. I’m not mad at the dope. I haven’t told anyone off. I haven’t told people who paid that they’re throwing their money away. I haven’t even started a thread bitching about the situation. All I’ve done was post maybe two or three responses on the subject stating my opinion. For that I get a _good fucking riddence_ from one of my favorite posters. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/53 "2004-03-25T13:31:39Z")
Slacker, why not go ahead and sign up? It’s pretty cheap right now, and if you can’t afford it, I’ll sponsor you. ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/54 "2004-03-25T13:36:15Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > Thanks for the send off. It’s amazing how people are treating those of us who aren’t staying. I’m not mad at the dope. I haven’t told anyone off. I haven’t told people who paid that they’re throwing their money away. I haven’t even started a thread bitching about the situation. All I’ve done was post maybe two or three responses on the subject stating my opinion. For that I get a _good fucking riddence_ from one of my favorite posters. Thanks. He could have at least spelled “riddance” right. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/55 "2004-03-25T13:42:57Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > Thanks for the send off. It’s amazing how people are treating those of us who aren’t staying. I’m not mad at the dope. I haven’t told anyone off. I haven’t told people who paid that they’re throwing their money away. I haven’t even started a thread bitching about the situation. All I’ve done was post maybe two or three responses on the subject stating my opinion. For that I get a _good fucking riddence_ from one of my favorite posters. Thanks. Bah, why do you have to throw a line in like that and make me feel all shitty? Look, I simply don’t agree with your “paying to put up my content” philosphy. It’s a strange reason, at least to me, to lose people like you who’ve been around and make this place what it is. Let me apologize for the stupid comment, and say the best of luck to you wherever you end up. I’ll also add that I hope you reconsider before the 22nd, and failing, that anytime after. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/56 "2004-03-25T13:45:40Z")
> [@skutir](#): > > He could have at least spelled “riddance” right. :rolleyes: Don’t you have anything else to do? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/57 "2004-03-25T14:10:49Z")
Have y’all ever been to a nightclub? Maybe one where a bunch of people were dancing around? Lemme ask you this: do you think people gravitate toward the clubs full of sexy hot people, or toward the clubs that are empty? People go, of course, to the clubs with a lot of people at them. They go, in part, to see and be seen. **And they pay an admission charge at the door**. Why should they do this? After all, their presence at the club is part of the club’s draw: they’re “creating content” for the club. Why should the club profit off their attractiveness? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/58 "2004-03-25T14:20:07Z")
Since this is the pit to talk about subscriptions, I figure it’s the place to ask **Mr. Svinlesha** if he’s going to subscribe. I hope so: he’s one of my favorite posters around this place, and brings a level of erudition to Great Debates matched by few others. His loss would be a sore loss to the boards. [sub]thought you were gonna be Pitted, huh?[/sub] Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/59 "2004-03-25T14:20:39Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > I played football the other day. At the end someone had the nerve to ask me for money to pay for the football pitch. I had to take them aside. > > “If you don’t come here to play with and against people”, I opinioned, “what brings you in? The fresh air?” > > “Without the opposition and teamwork I, and others, provide, no-one would be here and the Sports Facility wouldn’t have your money” I patiently explained. “No-one’s going to turn up to kick a ball about themselves. So it’s unreasonable that I should be asked to pay.” > > Imagine my surprise when I was called an “arse who’s up himself” and physical kicked across the carpark and out into the street. It’s the last time I’ll be playing for them, ungrateful sods! **Siege** ’s post was great, but this post was funny - I was drinking tea at the time, and almost snorted it through my nose! Well done! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278/60 "2004-03-25T14:30:03Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > There are very few people whose posts are profound or entertaining enough to be considered “content”, in my opinion. Personally, if **Polycarp, tomndebb, Scylla, Sauron, lieu, Esprix** or **Master Wang-ka** … You fogot my name again. I told you before that when you make lists like these, you shouldn’t forget my name. Now, where is that riding crop? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-sdmb-subscription-thread-you-need/236278.md?page=4)