Moderator Art Posted August 16, 2015 Moderator Report Posted August 16, 2015 This goes back a way with leatherworker.net. There was never any idea of a class structure on leatherworker.net. To this day, money is tight at LW. The technology used to host and maintain this site is pretty heavy. More people = more blades = more storage = more backups = $$$$$. The advertisers help, but when LW was just getting going, infrastructure costs were heavy (not as bad as now), but there were zip advertisers. Thank ghod some folks wrote checks, with no benefit asked for or given. It was decided to acknowledge these folks with the tag Contributing Member, that's all they got, that's all they will ever get. The fact that you are a member here (Contributing or otherwise) just means that you are in the most important membership class. Contributing is a method of "paying forward", but Members pay forward in other ways that we see every day by helping someone along or a lot of gifts we don't see. Members pay for this site every time they post, every time they buy from an advertiser, and even though they don't realize it, every time they log in. No member should be concerned that they can't for any reason send a donation to Leatherworker.net (any donations will however, not be returned). Just take our humble THANKS for being here. Art Quote For heaven's sakes pilgrim, make yourself a strop!
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