From the posts when this was first brought up, it's clear that changing it into a pay site isn't just about a little money to help compensate for time and money spent. It's a business venture. If it was just money, the donation idea would have already been tried, but it doesn't appear that it's going to be.
Although we did have some effect with the Ethics Commitee idea, this one involves more. I'm guessing not just money.
Depending one the cost, I'll most likely sign up and pay. My only problem from the begining has been the people just starting and looking for research, maybe people not in the industry yet. THey certainly aren't going to pay to join to ask questions. There will be other free sites and probably ad's elsewhere that explain that this is a great site and worth the money, so there will be people signing up regardless. But there will be people that won't also. It was mentioned before that putting the word FREE up stopped interest in a different venture, looking at the amount of people here, I'd say that that didn't hold true in this case... apples and oranges.
Again I say, try the donation thing, maybe through pay-pal. You might be surprised on how much money you get, especially from people that get an idea from this site that paid off well. Some people won't ever pay, regardless of what info they get, but those are the people that probably wouldn't pay to join.
But I digress
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