Stack, make no mistake here...my angle is completely different here and has nothing to do with you or the OP. Seriously. To each their very own with what they want, why, and how they got it. My personal beef with this lies with someone else here who is seemingly hailed to be the holy grail and is the supreme spokesman when is comes to this sort of thing. I have no Twitter, no Face Book, Snap Shop, nada...'cause I'm not yet into that kind of social media. It has lots of loop holes and compromises but, I still think they're cool overall.
I was called out years ago 'cause I was posting tickets which reflected my wins, and, the person in question got so pissed and called me a cheapskate for winning decent money while still only maintaining a Standard Membership. Yeah, like that. I then gave that person the opportunity to also call out some of his friend that fell into the same category as me, AND, made them a political bet to boot. I agreed to upgrade any members on the 'left' if he agreed to upgrade any members on the 'right' and this was an effort to see how many of each there were. I even laid out the total cost. Hey, I had absolutely no clue on where they ALL stood but, I had an idea where the bulk of them did.
In other words, I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that there were LESS 'righties' than 'lefties' which would cost him LESS money than me to upgrade 'em. Yep, he backed out...wanted no part of it. Even refused to call out his own that were Standard Members, or, anyone else that 'spoke' like him and were yet Standard Members. See where that road leads? I explained to him, in complete detail, that I didn't need any of the tools/services offered here because I write my own programs and develop my spread sheets from them. Why would I spend my money on something that I wasn't using...at all? He was trying to tell me how to spend my money...the same thing he claimed that 'lefties' do and were doing. I had all my ducks in a row, as always, and he knew it...and politely tucked his tail like he was supposed.
See, I was expected to fit in status-wise, since everyone else could afford the upgrades. I could care less about status...it's about spending your money efficiently. Granted, I certainly have the utmost respect for Todd and what he's established here and I feel that Todd knows I'm an honest guy that hides nothing. He knows who I was before I was banned, and, I've willingly told everyone the whole story behind it. He's cool and professional enough to still work with me on that front but, I also do my part in being civil.
This other guy...he bases how he's gonna treat you on where you 'stand.' Every single person that he has a beef with here is more than likely opposite of him. If I based how I was going to treat all the people I know on such nonsense, I'd lose A LOT of my friends because so many are opposite of me but, that's what makes us friends and allows us to LEARN from one another with respect and get along though we disagree on things. It's called GROWING and being MATURE. Just a couple words you can use for searches here at LP would be 'Insufferable Moron' and "Parasites' in relation to how a person may have stood at some point.
L.L.