Personally I have found being a member informative. I am looking forward to the pass CC let me in on, and I have enjoyed learning and sharing information with the members here. I understand some people didn't appreciate the flaming but even I noticed SFG57 was being a jackass and I haven't been around that long. I imagine if I was here for all 1000 of his posts plus the other boards he was banned from I would also flame him.