Originally Posted by inthecrack

Addressing the join link issue that people seem to be critiquing..... I believe that it is both discrete and yet obvious enough that people will notice it without being annoyed by obnoxious join graphics and blind links. Actually that's my biggest peeve with most membership sites. It seems that literally everything you click on sends you straight to the join page instead of what you were hoping to see when you clicked on whatever it was that caught your eye. When I see stuff like that I also cannot help but wonder what else they might try to trick me into once I have bought the membership and will the site be full of spam advertising and blind redirects. I think people don't have to be force feed the join page in order to find the incentive to buy. That only gets in the way of what really sells people on the site which is quality content.