Post #183554 by Queen Kamehameha on Wed, Aug 31, 2005 10:26 PM

hi All,

I don't post much, but felt the need to post on this topic.

I have been a member a long time and I am a grand member, I don't post much but I read a lot. I have collected tiki all my life, before I even realized how much a part of my life it was.

My thoughts on this is that it is a bad thing for the community. If it was really about just making the site more tiki focused, the intent is ok, but there are truly people who love this site and are members who can not afford to pay the money, no matter how small or trivial some of you think it is. I am a little surprised that someone would actually type " we are talking about 24.00, right?"

Its been a long time since 24.00 made a difference in my life, but I remember the days I could only buy 10 boxes of mac and cheese for a buck, and was grateful for it.

I think, that if this site lost one good dedicated member who found friends here and a free place to love,hang out at, and had a love of all things tiki because they couldn't afford 24.00, then the site is not better off for losing that person, it is worse off.

I ran a very large site for many years, a site with as much passion for something that tiki holds for all of us. Some of those members would tell me that that site got them through their day, when they had nothing and it all went bad, that they could come to a site that their friends were at and just chat. Isn't that what a community, real or virtual is all about?

Just my .02 cents