Quote Originally Posted by Nickel020 View Post
Charging to be allowed to post in this way is too much imho. I can understand that they want to do something against people posting for economical reasons. A better idea imho is to just require people who (effectively) get paid to post to state this in their signature, so that normal users who might not know the sponsored guys can easily tell them apart from normal users who have no economical interest for posting whatsoever.
isnt an online forum supposed to be a community of people with the same interest SHARING ideas?

Not "Oh hey this guy has funding, I bet we could try to tap into that funding some by making him pay to show people who are very interested in whats hes doing that could potentially learn from it"

^^^^ sounds like an awesome way to kill a forum.