>The mere fact that there is this two-tier approach is a bit galling. If you were afforded full functionality overall (irrespective of your membership type), I think I personally would be more inclined to "pay-up" to support the forum than I am now, feeling functionally "selected against".
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>Just curious...

Hi Gary,

If everyone (including non-paying members) were given full functionality, why would anyone pay for PUTM? Are you saying that you would donate money to the UT if full-functionality was given to everyone for free?

Of course, UT members benefit from having as much traffic as possible, including the BUTM's. I'm afraid that UT traffic may go down if too much functionality is taken away from BUTM's (like the workaround for search functionality that was removed last week).

< spoken as one who pays for membership out of own pocket :) >