Support what you believe in.

It took me quite a while to scrape up the money for membership - there are always so many places for your cash to go! But I know I have and hopefully will continue to have at least a little more moola than I would have if I had never found this website, I am very grateful for the forum's existence.

However, I don't appreciate the way some people who have membership continually try to guilt out those who don't. It is a reoccuring theme on here.

Everyone who touches the forum enriches it.

When you merely lurk on the site you add to its traffic. Traffic is what attracts advertisers and determines the rates . When you post on the forum you contribute content for free. Content is what draws traffic and on many places on the web, people are paid to supply content. The few bucks people pay for membership is probably much less valuable in the long run than the archive of posts that have been given to the forum for free over the years and the generous willingness of some on here (Mechanic and others - you know who you are) to mentor new scrappers.



Making people feel like free-loaders is probably more of a deterrent to the forum's bottom line than just accepting that everyone who visits here adds value.