I honestly do not get it. Why put your subscribers through this pain every quarter?
The site is large enough to pay expenses through advertising and maybe even put some money in your pocket, capitalism works and this is the only site I visit that does not have it.
Advertising to me was only a pain when I was on dial up and it slowed the page loading, now I barely notice it on any site. A freeperthon is more distracting to me than advertising by a long shot
Better yet charge your subscribers $10 a year and do the advertising, all this freeperthon stuff is just dithering around and wasting time. It’s like you guys feel like making money is a bad thing, all this purity stuff is misguided IMHO - make a buck and may god smile on you
////Pay-site probably would eliminate 90% of the trolls
Great points underbyte...very similar to what I was trying to say.
There has to be a better way...
I am not now, nor have I ever been, in any role or position of responsibility with FR. I don't speak for them, think for them, or do anything for them, and I never have.
This particular forum on FR is "bloggers and personal." I wrote it, and I posted it, and it's my personal opinion and initiative.
Also, why not charge fees and accept advertising? Maybe it gets handled differently if it's income instead of donations. And that might cause an entire range of headaches. Just a thought, but I don't know.