My friend. I am disabled as well. I have a ping pong ball sized ball of metal wire permanently residing in an artery in my brain to keep the arterial aneurysm that it lives in from popping. I too have trouble with concentrating sometimes. I also get those emails and snail mails. But man.. You need to think of what you get for the price of a subscription. Not only do you get the magazine, which I find immensely useful, but you also get access to online content here which is just as valuable and useful. In addition you get access to these forums which contain more combined modeling know-how than any place else on the planet with the possible exception of an IPMS convention. I am living on under $1K a month which is all I get in disability payments. But I am pretty well a shut in. so the hobby is what keeps me sane. I have no problem whatsoever with the subscription rate. It is the one treat I can afford. I used to be a network administrator before I was disabled, so I know what the costs are in keeping a forum server running, as well as the costs of hosting a full site. And trust me... The subscription fee is more than reasonable.
All of us who have subscribed have paid our dues for what the site and magazine offers. You are not paying for a subscription anymore and that's your choice, but the red rectangle is a small price to pay for free access to the resource that the rest of us pay for. If you are not happy with the magazine or site, you don't have to use it. That again, is your choice. But you cannot expect to get the same as we do when you don't pay for the subscription we pay for. Basically you have three choices.
1. Stop going to the site if the box annoys you so much.
2. Pay for the subscription like te rest of us do, so you no longer have to deal with the box.
3. Put up with the box and be glad you can access without paying real money for the subscription.
Your choice.
Rich
Konigwolf13:
Actually I'm not here for free, see all those add down the right hand side, being subjected to them pays my admission (and yes I do follow them from time to time).
As simple and stupid as it sounds I have a disability that makes it very hard to concentrate at time (same thing that lets me get irritated at seemingly innane things). Blocks or colour like that can cause me to keep flicking to look at it, instead of scanning subject links or forum posts. Ever tried rereading the same paragraph 6 or 7 times cause something keeps you from focus? Think how frusting that may be for everypage you want to read!
Andrew