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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9708042" data-attributes="member: 725">First you 'reprimand' me, then you agree with me... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Back in 2002 and 2007 I spent around $65 on ENworld subscriptions, that is not a huge amount, but if everyone that uses ENworld spent $65 on the subscriptions, you would be a multimillionaire by now. So I feel I did my part, back when it was needed. I seem to also remember that I offered hosting and my expertise/time at one point (because I had servers available at the time) and you declined...I have no issue with 'helping', when I am capable AND I find it appropriate, in the same way I also have no issue to speak up when I find it very inappropriate. And I treat a community I use, that offers services for free and is only a couple of years old, very differently from a 25 year old business that normally sells it's products at a premium.A similar community (but in a different field) from around the same time was sold to a big media conglomerate, that is suddenly a very different story...That's 12 years ago, after a big hack and the software that was in use then was apparently a big pile of custom spaghetti code, it all needed to be upgraded after it collapsed. Software and hardware were then still in a place where the cost could still be very high especially when you needed to migrate from one custom solution to something mainstream. These days that is very different. Also at £9k they already had a server capable of expansion, they ended at £54k, way more then what was needed or asked for at the time.Honestly, depending on which Reddit you are in, I find Reddit a lot less of a cesspool then ENworld in certain fields. I do know of the cesspools of which you speak, but you can avoid those if you want. It's also the reason why I spent less time on ENworld these days often taking breaks for months. I would argue that ENworld isn't the same place it was 20 years ago, nor am I the same person I was 20 years ago, things and people change...</blockquote>

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