Calelith
Don't complain when the site dies. Those that spend bc are helping keep this site alive.
The point is that we shouldn't be expected to shell out upwards of $50US or the equivalent each week just to keep the site afloat just because of greedy and/or incompetent management. I don't begrudge Gaia Online a few bucks here and there, but I can't--and WON'T--shell out money I don't have to keep the site going if it's just going to turn into a Facebook clone. I'm on disability, and I haven't got a lot of money to begin with, even without the economy having been driven down the toilet by our so-called leaders in Congress (yes, I'm blaming BOTH sides!). I know that a lot of businesses are hurting for cash, even now, but that is
NO reason to try and stick it to people like us who don't have a lot to spare to begin with!
Gaia's admins seem to have forgotten that their target audience is teenagers (who are on allowances or have part-time, minimum wage jobs) and twenty-somethings (who are either jobless because of the screwed up economy or in college part- or full-time and have no spare cash to speak of). They obviously assume that just because the site needs X million dollars per month that they can just take it from us and not give us anything in return. That's why threads like this exist--to show them that WE are the ones that support this site. If it weren't for us Gaians, Gaia Online would still be Lanzer's personal web page!