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Originally Posted by shelley
I have never seen any thread about that subject.
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Me either.
On the general topic, I will say that the circumstances seem to have changed from when the membership fee was implemented. If I recall correctly, membership was growing so fast that Dave halted new registrants for a few weeks, and when new registration was again allowed, the fee was in place. That obviously curbed the rate at which new members signed up.
Fast forward to the present, where activity on HF has slowed to a crawl and everyone is begging for increased action on here, both in the mall and on the forum. I don't think the factors that led to the fee are all still the same, so I think there's certainly a reason to evaluate its effect on the forum.
And finally, as I said when fee was first being discussed, the mall is just a classified section on a message board. There really is not enough added value to members to warrant a fee to use it. I used three different car audio boards to engage in about 20 or so transactions circa 1998-2000, and there was more than an adequate amount of self-policing on those boards since they had a decent amount of traffic.
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