<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by anonplz:
I agree. I just don't think you are going to have the same quality of information here if you require any kind of fee or Veri-Check/credit card verification system. Most of those who post now and enjoy FT may be all for it. How enthusiastic will new sign-ups be? So you'd have a certain size membership, which would then naturally diminish over time, and departing members would not be replaced at the same rate by new sign-ups.
As nice as they sound, a fee system or positive ID check are just not the right solutions for FT. I'm not even sure that FT, per se, has a problem. As I said before, there are one or two problem posters who are trying to create a scandal here, and they need to be dealt with.
Also being overlooked is that instituting a fee/credit card check system does NOT reduce trolling or flaming. There are other IBB's which have subscription fees, and they STILL have to deal with trolling and flaming.</font>
I am with Anonplz on this one. I would risk a 2% troll rate that gets cut off than to lose even 2% of contributors to the substance of the board. The information is more valuable to me and more thoroughly available when there are no barriers (not even minor ones) to participation on matters of substance.