That is exactly what I suggested to my friend with the sports website...the tiered approach. Routine users would pay a nominal, monthly subscription fee and only they would have access to certain parts of the website...including those parts of the site that had some really cool historical information that was not visible to the non-paying person.I agree. Moving to a 'subscription' model is not the answer as that would eliminate so many 'hat curious' folks or lurkers and tighten the circle. Perhaps there is a subscription model that offers tiers of service that would allow the curious a lengthy time to hang out. Perhaps, posting questions, classifieds for subscribers, but the lurkers could have access to the posts.....or somesuch. I am willing to pay if the model could be as inclusive as possible.