most forums are free. the reason i went plat was so i could view galleries of all the hot babes here. unfortunately dickheads have succeeded in running them all off, which i never understood the logic of. I don't really care about the juice stuff in george's inner circle. I don't need 2,300 pms since us black folk never get any. I'm plat because i paid for life. If i had to do it again based on current benefits i probably wouldn't. It's the members that make this a nice (or not so nice) place, not the administration, although they do a fine job..a fine job, i say!!!!