perhaps it should be just reinstated that psychcentral has a membership fee. That way there aren't two categories of membership that makes ppl who have been friends of the site for long years feel sorta like second-class members. In a way.. this site is like family for allot of people, so giving special membership (although I'm sure well intentioned) to any member, is bound to hurt feelings and cause strife between "siblings".
We all sometimes are blind sited in our decisionmaking sometimes becuase it is hard to see how our actions will be interepreted.