[BrianD]

Originally Posted by Grammaticus

Well, I guess contribution can be valued in different ways by different people.

If Gamespy hosts for free based on the hit traffic which is good for their ad revenue, as SD indicated. And WW posts account for 1/7th or roughly 14.3% of all posts on FOFC as someone else stated. That would mean WW posters are probably hitting the board at a comparable rate, thus contributing to the board and maintaining free hosting.

Also, this is a board that evolved based on interest in a game, a text sim game. WW is a game that, not a text sim game, but a social interaction game. It is no surprise that people who hit a game related site are interested in playing a game. In many ways, playing a game such as WW is more in the spirit of a game related site than about 99% of the post topics out there.

Even for those who care little for WW, you should be able to understand the game and its participants are contributing to the site and FOFC community. Not only is it short sighted and rude to insult them, but those who use non-contribution as an argument are simply wrong.

I think this sums it up well.