11 Apr 06
Originally posted by Rajk999OMG! You're right. I'm totally leeching bandwidth off the server with my huge game load...0 games in progress! Yeah, I'm really sucking down the bandwidth posting messages in plain text on a forum. 🙄🙄🙄
Listen Mr BigMouthProblem.. the issue is your disgusting greedy attitude. You are benefiting from the subscriptions paid by the honest chess-players. At the very least you can be THANKFUL and GRATEFUL, instead of acting like a low-class piece of trash.
Everyone knows that if you use forums, you ought to pay for 'em! Oh, wait, that's right, most internet forums are free. Damn, you had me all worked up there.
The 'greedy' are the ones who go around trying to buy everything, instead of enjoying what they already have, and the 'honest' also includes those who aren't afraid to say that they ain't gonna pay.
11 Apr 06
Originally posted by Rajk999Why should I be thankful to a person such as yourself? You call people a low class piece of trash for using services that are offered to them for free.
Listen Mr BigMouthProblem.. the issue is your disgusting greedy attitude. You are benefiting from the subscriptions paid by the honest chess-players. At the very least you can be THANKFUL and GRATEFUL, instead of acting like a low-class piece of trash.
With comments like that, you lose your privelege of being thanked.
11 Apr 06
Originally posted by DelmerTaking a slice of bread from a loaf marked "Free Bread!" and begging for it are very different things.
Whose whining? I just think that after a reasonable free trial, 30 days for example, those who play should pay to help support the site. Doesn't seem unreasonable to me, though it may seem unreasonable to a "Posterboy Freeloader" who evidently enjoys begging for bread.
11 Apr 06
Originally posted by Rajk999I do not understand your position. How is it greedy for someone to sign up for a FREE account on a website and use the account in acordance with the terms set out by the website administrators.
Listen Mr BigMouthProblem.. the issue is your disgusting greedy attitude. You are benefiting from the subscriptions paid by the honest chess-players. At the very least you can be THANKFUL and GRATEFUL, instead of acting like a low-class piece of trash.
This site got its start from non-paying members. In the beginning, everything on here was free (of course, there weren't many of the bells and whistles we have now), and the site was supported through advertising revenue. It was only after the site gained popularity and started to eat up some serious bandwidth that Russ started selling subscriptions.
11 Apr 06
Originally posted by richjohnsonYoure an excellent example. Youve been playing for free for about 6 years? If you had a conscience you would understand but you dont and you wont. Here is an extract from the 'subscription' section of RHP :
I do not understand your position. How is it greedy for someone to sign up for a FREE account on a website and use the account in acordance with the terms set out by the website administrators.
This site got its start from non-paying members. In the beginning, everything on here was free (of course, there weren't many of the bells and whistles we ...[text shortened]... opularity and started to eat up some serious bandwidth that Russ started selling subscriptions.
*******If you like playing chess at 'Red Hot Pawn', please consider becoming a subscriber. The 'Red Hot Pawn' community depends on subscribers for its continued existence and improvement, and for the nominal subscription fee (less than 60 cents a week if paid annualy), all of the site's features will be available to you. ********
Its the MEAN, GREEDY, CHEAP, FREELOADERS like yourself that take advantage of generous people and destroy everything around them.
11 Apr 06
Originally posted by richjohnsonRich, You have posted well. You are right non subs have every right to post in the forums.
I do not understand your position. How is it greedy for someone to sign up for a FREE account on a website and use the account in acordance with the terms set out by the website administrators.
This site got its start from non-paying members. In the beginning, everything on here was free (of course, there weren't many of the bells and whistles we ...[text shortened]... opularity and started to eat up some serious bandwidth that Russ started selling subscriptions.
However BigDog needs to calm down and develop a less confrontational attitude. Non Subs have about the right amount of privileges. BigDog should be satisfied with "his bread and water" or pay up.
Moaning about his "bread and water" achieves very little apart from annoting those who do pay for the full service.
I was a non sub for 2 years before subscribing. I believe both services are good value. However during my time here I have seen non-sub privileges revoked because of the actions of a minority of non-subs who have posted or pm'd unhelpful infomation at subscribers.