Thanks for voicing your position so respectfully. You're right, this site has costs and we decided to meet them with a membership program, instead of relying on advertisements. This has worked so far.

We did grant hundreds of free memberships to our members, but I think you were close to the post count and/or tool count for the free cutoff, and I can understand that would be frustrating.

Send me a PM, and I'll give you a coupon code for a free year of membership. After a year, we can pick up this conversation again.