Since people seem to be forgetting it lately, let me remind them that IAM is not an indie-rock or other youth culture site. It is a body modification site. If that's not your primary interest here and it's not what got you here, you are in the wrong place. I'm getting very very sick of seeing pages make it quite clear that the person involved doesn't give a damn about body modification (unless it's their star tattoo or old school design of the month which isn't really a tattoo — it's just a part of the “uniform” they've been tricked into wearing).
IAM is for the members of BME, and it's clear that it's moving away from that due to the influx of non-BME readers; users that moved over from other community sites, etc… Now I'm even having to deal with the fact that many of those people are buying memberships for their friends who have nothing to do with BME. I've thought about it for a while, and I've eliminated paid IAM memberships. Yes, it means I'll have to generate more revenue elsewhere to support IAM, but I don't need the headache of these idiots flooding the site.
If anyone has productive feedback on how to (a) keep these people off the site, and (b) generate the revenue required to support the site, please feel free to pipe up in the whatever forum… But I'm not interested in getting into a “but these members are good for the site” debate; this not a general community site. It is a “specialty” community site and I do not want it to stray from that.
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