I'll come out and say it.

For the month of November this site will be worse than the stoc. Even on all the stoc sites you have some access to of the boards.

Members will be put off of joining because they have to pay. I'm sure alot of the members on here were put off of the stoc due to the membership fee.

The great thing about this site is it is free and runs on donations. So instead of excluding tons of people from joining having to pay why not re-arrange the boards short term?

Non donating members only have access to general discussion and the noob section? Some compromise is needed!