12-16-2014, 11:58 PM
At risk of losing my own membership on the Premium board, I will say that I am not in favor of it for the many reasons posted here. And, as has been mentioned MANY times, one of the ways to fix the "lurker" problem (or at least improve it greatly) would be to make this Utah board a member's only board. But that will never happen because the reason this board exists is NOT for the fishermen (sorry to hurt your tender feelings boys). This board exists for the high number of hits that can be billed to its many advertisers. The higher numbers of hits, the more money the owners of BFT make ... plain and simple. Hence, the more lurkers, the better (for BFT business). So, if they ain't going to fix the lurking problem (i.e. reduce their income), one alternative is to create a private board. And if the private board wasn't restricted and was open to everyone, then everyone would join it and the lurker money would go away. So access to the private board has to be restricted. Think of it this way; if you got to have problems in life, this is a pretty cool problem to have.
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