On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 15:27, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

Now it's purely about whether you spend money. If it's meant to drive up KLI membership, what's the point? Okay, you paid for a membership and now you can get your words, and that membership gives you... well, about as much as it did before. Getting your words isn't a perk of membership; it's the point of membership. Which means it's still a pay-for-access scheme.

Counterpoint: The barrier to access used to be a lot higher. You had to physically travel to the {qep'a'}, which meant those with the most influence were primarily restricted to the United States, and even then only to certain regions.

Compared to that, $10 USD per year isn't a *huge* amount of money:

https://www.kli.org/membership-account/membership-levels/

De'vID