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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3940865" data-attributes="member: 8439">I don't see any distinction, fine or otherwise. Maintaining the website is part of what he has chosen to make his job. It is not a labor of love, a favor to us, or a private amusement we happen to view. It is a service he is providing to make money. When you provide a service, you get criticized when it isn't meeting expectations. When you don't provide a service, you don't make your living off it.Obviously he enjoys having it both ways, and many of his fans are eager to support him in it, but I'm not one of them. And on his own boards he can live in his own little universe and posters will go along or just go. But these aren't his boards.Edit : I have on several occasions made part of my livelyhood writing for free publications (supported, obviously, by ads). The idea that I or an editor or anyone involved could have disparaged people who got theirs late, badly printed or with substandard content because "Dude, it's FREE!" would have been preposterous on it's face then, so I'm immune to being "shamed" for applying the same standards I was held to.</blockquote>