Jason Flare
NES Member
Before I became a Life Member of the NRA I should have made them promise not to kick me out.
If you enjoy the forum please consider supporting it by signing up for a NES Membership The benefits pay for the membership many times over.
Be sure to enter the NES/MFS May Giveaway ***Canik METE SFX***
When you get to Burlington, please give the backstabbing Governor our sincerest regards...This project is in Albany, the next one will probably be Burlington, VT
Because of membership fees....Admin already has a house in the Hamptons,a 3k sq ft cottage in Weston,a mansion on Lake Winnapesaki,along with 3 Ferrari's ,a Land Cruiser,14 dogs,12 cats and a Gulfstream G5 that he uses to fly all the Mods in to Sweden where he has meetings about this website.
Now he is just being greedy.
f***ing shoot me. I run 270 one way for a weekend and thought I was nuts.You're an idiot. If I was making 150K a year on NES I wouldn't be working a full time job and driving 300 miles round trip to Albany for work. Keep tossing bullshit out there.
I'm signed up on a ton of sites, mostly gun and LE sites. I pay a membership on exactly 2 sites . . . NES and ARfcom.
If you were to be able to look at recent activity by users, you'd probably find only a very tiny fraction of NESrs actually post here. A lot of previously very active posters have moved away or just dropped by the wayside. A few thousand paying members is more like a realistic guesstimate.
So is this going to be the new war cry ? You know how people love to point out that if you aren't a "NES Member",you are a Liberal and hate guns ? Now it's going to be "Life Members" help keep the site financially viable,you people that pay $21 a year,well that's okay but we are much better than you.
joining arfcom now....tytyI'm signed up on a ton of sites, mostly gun and LE sites. I pay a membership on exactly 2 sites . . . NES and ARfcom.
If you were to be able to look at recent activity by users, you'd probably find only a very tiny fraction of NESrs actually post here. A lot of previously very active posters have moved away or just dropped by the wayside. A few thousand paying members is more like a realistic guesstimate.
The math is right, I just think he is talking about the estimate of 1/3 of the membership being green is wrong. I'd agree with that. Would be nice to know what the count is though.
If I had to guess on membership I'd use something more tangible. Like the monthly giveaway. The most popular recent one seems to be the HK45 with 1100 entries. Now not everyone enters. I rarely do. So i'd throw a 2X modifier on that number. I'd wager current membership is 2k. That is my final answer...
Dude...which Mod touched you?all right, you just got me wound up again. if my 21 bucks isn't helping keep the site financially viable then what the christ is it doing? cigarette money for derek? the home page says there are 45,947 members. not knowing how many green members there are, if a third are green @ $21/yearly, that's $321,629 it generates a year. does it cost a regional board over a quarter of a million to run yearly? i dunno.
yep, i see it coming. all of a sudden i feel my welcome is wearing thin. one thing i'm guilty of is writing how i really feel and i'd hate to see an us vs. them attitude develop here on top of all the issues gun owners have already. so if the lifers are supporting the rest of us it's the first time i've ever received welfare.
Can we look forward to Our Future?
I do. I don't see a future where gun owners are considered the dregs of Society, a loose and lost band of misfits. Criminals.
I, instead see each one of Us as a important and integral part of the Machine. The Machine of Freedom.
The Old, the New, Family Men, Family Women, .Mil Veterans, College Students, LEO's.
Hell, even some politicians, make up the Cloth that We are woven into.
Let us not bicker about trivial things, like the color of a banner, or the content of a post. These things pale Our Mission.
Our Mission is to Preserve Our Rights and pass them onto Our children, unabated. All of them. All day, every day.
No one has begged you to be here, but you are. Make the best of it. Smile. Our Mission doesn't have to suck. We will get out of it what We put into it.
I do.
Going forward, I intend to improve the quality of my posts, with the hopes that in perpetuity, something useful will be gleaned from them by New Shooters.
~Matt
And I am not talking about some sh@t hole in Cambodia.
In my opinion it's not really that easy to get banned. I've been in a few "discussions" with mods and even Derek that got pretty heated. We were both passionate about our opinions but it never sank to just throwing insults, so I've never even been threatened with a ban.First of all, all the knickknacks are fun, but not everyone can or will use them.
What some of us, who read a lot of posts, may be concerned about is it seems a lot of members become NON-MEMBERS, if you catch my drift.
Pay the NRA lifetime, and you are LIFETIME. Never heard otherwise.
But membership in NE Shooters is precarious - apparently.
So … What if a person lays out the nearly $400, and then posts something unpleasant, and becomes a NON-MEMBER.
Not trying to be combative here, but damn - $400 and then it is gone ?
A lot of members become non-members? You're telling everyone that it's easy to get banned? If that's what you're insinuating you're wrong. It takes quite a bit to get banned. Anyone who has been banned deserved to be banned and knew damn well it was coming.First of all, all the knickknacks are fun, but not everyone can or will use them.
What some of us, who read a lot of posts, may be concerned about is it seems a lot of members become NON-MEMBERS, if you catch my drift.
Pay the NRA lifetime, and you are LIFETIME. Never heard otherwise.
But membership in NE Shooters is precarious - apparently.
So … What if a person lays out the nearly $400, and then posts something unpleasant, and becomes a NON-MEMBER.
Not trying to be combative here, but damn - $400 and then it is gone ?
How about, if we chip in and buy a life membership for Scrivner which would grant him a pardon, retroactively unbanning him... (so he can correct this grammatically challenged post)
Can we look forward to Our Future?
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~Matt
Well said!
See? They're already forming a "union" Hoffa Hoffa Hoffa!!!!
A lot of members become non-members? You're telling everyone that it's easy to get banned? If that's what you're insinuating you're wrong. It takes quite a bit to get banned. Anyone who has been banned deserved to be banned and knew damn well it was coming.
If you don't post like an a**h*** you wont be treated like one.
I'm on dozens of forums and have been for 15 years, I've never been banned on any of them. If you're seriously worried about losing money from being banned, maybe you should look in the mirror.