Beautiful words and sentiment from all in here
When I first joined I never thought I'd buy a gold membership because you don't really NEED one as long as you pay for silver. However, as mentioned in the comments above, it's one of the ways to show appreciation for what we have here, what Chris and the mods and all other moving bits have built. There is so much work done in the background, and having a safe, technologically updated, and almost family-like community is worth every penny. When I joined the forum and bought my silver membership, I always thought to myself I'd always stick to it. Here I am, Gold membership, considering an upgrade to Platinum (hopefully soon ). Thank you all and thank you Organics for bringing this up