Quote - And, as I haven't bothered to back up my own stuff, if I lose my HD, I'm gonna be awful thankful for shareCG.  If ShareCG has to go to subscription to keep the site alive, so be it.  TANSTAAFL.

• You should think again. If ShareCG goes to a subscription, the free lunch is off the menu since most uploaders aren’t going to pay to keep their content on that site. I feel no compulsion to pay for the pleasure of having thousands of digital packrats store my stuff on their drive and never use it.

Hmm. Methinks I just said, or perhaps I wasn't clear, if they have to go subscription, so be it.  Meaning, to keep the site alive, I can give ten bucks a year and consider it a bargain. 

As things continue to get tight, with both purchases and advertising budgets going down, how long before the other "free" site providers go into the red?  When they do, oh, well. 

If everyone refuses, pulls their stuff and puts it on other sites, the monkey chase of trying to find an item you saw sometime before begins again.  The chances are best that, as you choose to use "most", Most of those items will just disappear rather than showing up on another site.  A lot of other sites will require a log in or sign on, and those sites top my "ignore" list.  I ain't alone there either.

I'll pay if need be, no problem.  For those that would argue I shouldn't, what makes you think my mind is less set in hard, heavy concrete, than your own?

D.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.