Are you serious?

I pay for Elite Guru membership. For that, I get a custom title (that I don't use as I'm a janitor in Tech corner); the ability to post polls (which I only ever did once at the request of someone else) and the option of a small, discrete signature.

None of those fringe benefits particularly bother me - I subscribe to Guru as it is the best Guild Wars related forum on the internet. It costs me $39.75 per year - that's a mighty ¢76 a week. Even better as I'm English - 47p per week What? I can ask someone for a custom title?

If guru allowed everyone to use sigs, I imagine it'd take YEARS to load threads. No one wants that. Yeah, as opposed to the half-a-day it already takes .

I think for the purposes of forum speed and functionality, it's better off not to have graphical sigs. As for polls... well the vast majority of people here say very "special" things and it would just get abused. It's not worth it; and users can already post polls in sardelac.

Wow, 2,000 people paying?! Taurean, there are not 2,000 people in the program. Not sure where you grabbed that number from. I just thought i read somewhere here that this forum had around 2.500 members. Not sure where xD

How many is here? I can tell there is a good many active - whenever i click "New posts" every thread is changed - i have to find my threads to hang up with it.

But i'm serious with the membership payment s**t.. it is ripping off people.. employ more dedicated Gw players that can stay loyal here on this forum one-two hours a day instead..
I think people who pay to get the ad cuts and all that crap.. are crazy xD don't do it. B\c it encourages and opens for more business.

I just thought i read somewhere here that this forum had around 2.500 members. Not sure where xD

How many is here? I can tell there is a good many active - whenever i click "New posts" every thread is changed - i have to find my threads to hang up with it.

But i'm serious with the membership payment s**t.. it is ripping off people.. employ more dedicated Gw players that can stay loyal here on this forum one-two hours a day instead..
I think people who pay to get the ad cuts and all that crap.. are crazy xD don't do it. B\c it encourages and opens for more business. There are 188,750 members on guru, I'm guessing less than 100 subscribe to be a core/elite guru.

It's not a rip off. It's for people who want to support guru. It's cheap and gives them a few perks. If you think it's a rip off, then don't pay for it, no one is forcing you to.

You actually have to pay money Monthly to be able to do stuff like be able to have a signature and post polls? that's just crazy, I understand the other features that are accessible to subscriptors, but the two i just mentioned should be available to everyone,just all other forums,anyway, this is just my opinion, pls dont reply with something like ''If you dont like it then GTFO'',but pls, give some thought about it You have got to be kidding me. Guru is one of, if not the busiest Guild Wars forums on the internet. If everyone was able to have a signature it would greatly increase the workload on what are already almost overloaded servers. As for polls, see above.
There are times when Guru crawls and times it flies. If every registered member had a signature, I would imagine the speed of Guru would drop to the point where it would quickly die.
To Indie, for my two cents, I think you are doing a great job with the resources at hand. To everyone else, I really doubt Indie is seeing even a small fraction of the money he receives from paying members, servers are not cheap. Not to own or to rent. I am looking forward to the day I can help out.