It ought not to have been there at all once GTPremium was launched. It just took until now for someone to notice it.
Fair enough, can't & won't argue with that. Still, I don't completly agree. The early bird catches the worm. Those who joined in 2002 had a bigger chance of becoming moderator than those who joined in 2009. Because one obviously prefers veterans instead of new members ( Is there a moderator who joined after 2006 ? ). Without the ( wild guess ) 50.000 members who joined before the introduction of GTPremium there would be no GTPremium.
So that's the aspect of your otherwise waterproof explanation ( no premium member - no use of premium features ),that I see a little differently.
It was a little free feature in the first years of GTP, and I don't see the necessity of taking it away from "veteran" members who had their share that GTP is what it is today. Don't get me wrong, I'm not overestimating my personal influence in that matter, it's close to zero. Yet a little bitter taste remains.
Same goes for parttime premium members. They once payed something, so a little bonus for them is not killing anyone, right ?
Let's draw a line : It's basically only about the advertising. Running GTP costs money and somebody has to pay for it. Either advertising or premium fee. That's the one thing that is not debatable.
The rest is a bunch of features that is meant to make premium even sweater.
A wise business decision and I'm happy for Jordan that many take the chance to become premium members because I like GTP and I want it to last.
I'm not speculating on his motivation, but the GTPremium page does quite clearly say that 20p is for normal members and 30/40/100p is for GTPremium members. If I'd noticed that, I'd have asked Jordan if it was meant to be that way too - but of course I didn't notice it because I am a Premium member and don't have any particular reason to visit the GTPremium page.
Well, you are not, I am. Remember your days on university. First few semesters. Let me tell you a story that probably sounds familiar :
Our chemistry lecturer was quite a freak. While it is rather important for you as a biochemist if I remember correctly, it is not so important in medicine. Most universities within a few hundred miles teach the basics and focus on biochemistry and physiology instead. Well, every university has its disciplines that are harder than elsewhere, chemistry in my case.
Where other chemistry faculties had their 20 - 40 multiple choice questions we had 20 DINA4 pages of questions, calculations, drawings and what not. Failure rates of up to 70% in medicine are rare here because we have 1.0 numerus clausus, at least 50% of our students are learning elite so to say.
Long story short, sometimes students managed to get their hands on these tests by taking another copy with them after the test, and later student generations had something they could use to prepare themselves for the test. That still meant countless hours of preparation parallel to other more important courses like anatomy, cell biology, biochemistry, physiology etc.
But you as least knew the types of questions and maybe 10-20% of the next tests were old questions. Helped a lot of people to pass.
But guess what, there sometimes were those superbrains who worked through these old tests and could only solve 95% of them. And now what did they do to get the lasting 5% ? They took the "stolen" test and walked straight to our lecturer - who of course said - "wtf, where did you get this ? let's change the whole tests, I'm off, thinking about new even harder questions"
Well, we were grateful as you can imagine.
One word : UNNECESSARY
Think first, act later !
And I kind of have the same impression here. I don't know the thread starter tlowr4 personally, but judging from this thread, daan's quote on his member profile
"Can you cut out the useless posts please. Asking why a thread died, and posting to say that someone should post, are not valid reasons to resurrect a thread. If a thread dies, it died for a reason, and you should just let it go." and his reactions as to why he posted this thread "AHH.....hmmm...errr....arrr.....i dunno..."
I kind of got a certain impression with what kind of member we are dealing here. No need to go into detail from my side, but a little more thinking before hitting the keyboard is what I'd recommend in future.
And of course Famine, you would have told Jordan, it's your job as part of the moderating team, If I were, I would have too. But I'm not, and tlowr4 isn't, just as my fellow students aka superbrains were not part of chemistry faculty.
I still can't believe that as I'm writing this I'm on page 2, altough there are not even 40 posts...
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post was in regards to the post above it.... Why tell us then?
