Charter Membership - In my humble opinion
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:28 am
Hi,
There has been a lot of fuss and many posts with opposite opinions regarding this issue.
I wanted to point out the way I see it (without hijacking any thread)
I'm sure we all understand that providing this site with everything involved has it's costs.
The effects the said change (Premium Posters are not free knowledge, but their answers are summarized in 3 rows) will have are actually 1 of the following 2 situation:
1. getting immediate response (since they lurk here consistently)
2. getting an added value of support on top (not instead of ) the support contract you have (if you have one).
So in fact option 1 was never, a given service.
and option 2 means you understand you have added value from this site.
In fact most things remain the same,
while added value comes with a price tag (as in most other cases).
The only thing that is really the issue now is can you say it's worth the costs?
50$ a year divided by 52 weeks a year is:
0.96153846153846153846153846153846 $ a week
divided by 5 working days a week is: 0.19230769230769230769230769230769 $ a day
Ask yourself how much money you cost a day and how mush time this site saved you so far and will save you in the future?
And is the added value you get here worth those 20 cents a day?
If your not fully convinced it is worth it, or didn't manage to get your boss at least one corporate licence instead of paying one yourself then no one is forcing you.
And in fact you are no worst then you've been so far, as already said, if the 5 Premium posters moved on and stopped posting.
I personally think that people working with the product always benefit from this site now and then making the costs worth the services (which I understand are going to be worth even more for additional added values that await Charter Members)
The above said is only IMHO(In My Humble Opinion)
and is said from an objective point of view.
Bottom line If you think it's worth it for you join in
IHTH,
There has been a lot of fuss and many posts with opposite opinions regarding this issue.
I wanted to point out the way I see it (without hijacking any thread)
I'm sure we all understand that providing this site with everything involved has it's costs.
The effects the said change (Premium Posters are not free knowledge, but their answers are summarized in 3 rows) will have are actually 1 of the following 2 situation:
1. getting immediate response (since they lurk here consistently)
2. getting an added value of support on top (not instead of ) the support contract you have (if you have one).
So in fact option 1 was never, a given service.
and option 2 means you understand you have added value from this site.
In fact most things remain the same,
while added value comes with a price tag (as in most other cases).
The only thing that is really the issue now is can you say it's worth the costs?
50$ a year divided by 52 weeks a year is:
0.96153846153846153846153846153846 $ a week
divided by 5 working days a week is: 0.19230769230769230769230769230769 $ a day
Ask yourself how much money you cost a day and how mush time this site saved you so far and will save you in the future?
And is the added value you get here worth those 20 cents a day?
If your not fully convinced it is worth it, or didn't manage to get your boss at least one corporate licence instead of paying one yourself then no one is forcing you.
And in fact you are no worst then you've been so far, as already said, if the 5 Premium posters moved on and stopped posting.
I personally think that people working with the product always benefit from this site now and then making the costs worth the services (which I understand are going to be worth even more for additional added values that await Charter Members)
The above said is only IMHO(In My Humble Opinion)
and is said from an objective point of view.
Bottom line If you think it's worth it for you join in
IHTH,