I do not mean to be rude here but, for all of the free users out there, Why do you feel that a software developer, like Ken Cole,  owe you something for FREE especially web hosting of your DVD collection that you have not paid for.

I am sure Ken has invested a great deal of money, as well as time and effort, in all of the Invelos servers  and other equipment that support DVD profiler. In fact, he has recently paid to acquire IVS from his partners, Some of whom sued him. KEN COLE IS SIMPLY AN INDIVIDUAL WHO CHOOSES TO SHARE HIS EFFORTS WITH THE DVD COLLECTING COMMUNITY. Processing thousands of contributions  for free is entirely unreasonable. He should be properly rewarded for his efforts. If you cannot afford $30 to support his efforts then you should not be wasting time in these forums and probably not have access to a computer at all. GET A JOB AND STOP WHINING.

For those of you wondering I am a retired/disabled individual living on a fixed income and, yes, I have paid my fee for use of the program. I would do it again in a heartbeat.

To Skipnet50:

Although I do not always agree with your methods, you have tried to do your part to make  the program and the community better. Keep up the good work but dial down the sarcasm about 10%. I admit I enjoy it sometimes,  but others, not so much.

To Ken Cole:

I would highly recommend eliminating posting access by free users to the forums or a least confining it to maybe the Technical Support forum in a specific pinned thread. There is enough information out there that free users should not clog up your new hard drives with repeated posts of the same questions over and over. It is bad enough that  some of us,  including myself on occasion, ask the same stupid questions over and over. We all make mistakes and get a little over zealous sometimes. I realize that free use in some cases promotes paid use but, enough is enough. Please put an end to the madness.

Thank You,

Sorry for the rant, now back to your regularly scheduled silence.

If people didn't read their automobile instruction manual to find out a simple safety factor like where to find or what the tire pressure should be set at, what makes you think they will read a program help file of a program or the contribution rules.

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I favor eliminating forum access completely for free users. In my view, they are not entitled to technical support since they are not customers.

A lot of companies use community forums for free user tech support where other users answer their question.

We may all chafe at the seemingly "silly" questions posted by the newbies, but I think they should be allowed to read and post here.

Even if they don't have full access to the program and online collection, any questions or problems they do have can - hopefully - be answered in the forums. Also, if there are known issues with various aspects of the program, they can find out without thinking there's something wiggy and then panicking.

I guess if I would change anything, there should be a dedicated up-to-date FAQ in both the program and on the forms, with a link to said FAQ directly on the main site page.

Only a test!!!!

Quoting Touti:

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Quoting a.parcaroli:

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Only a test!!!!

It worked !

Depends on WHAT was being tested?



Steve

Quoting Kevin:

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We may all chafe at the seemingly "silly" questions posted by the newbies, but I think they should be allowed to read and post here.

Even if they don't have full access to the program and online collection, any questions or problems they do have can - hopefully - be answered in the forums. Also, if there are known issues with various aspects of the program, they can find out without thinking there's something wiggy and then panicking.

I guess if I would change anything, there should be a dedicated up-to-date FAQ in both the program and on the forms, with a link to said FAQ directly on the main site page.

"Newbies" need love too

"Newbies" are not always Freeloaders.