My computer can't be on fire; I put it out just after the CPU melted. The hard drive is still smoking though.

The issue was that I was tracking a security problem and had a clearly defined reason for removing all cookies, disallowing them, and turning off javascript, and for wanting a website that would be easily monitored for incoming information. I was not interested in posting, or at the time even reading posts. I was just monitoring the information to and from my home network so that I could test to see if I had the problem cleared up. There was no reason to log on, and a definite need to have cookies, JS, etc. shut off, and a clear need to have information that I could trust coming to the network. On every post or forum change I was prompted to join TR or to log in. After 10 or so changes this gets old because of the amount of time spent clicking "No Thanks." I reached the point where clicking the "go away" button distracted from the work I was doing.

Down in the basement I have five servers running 24/7. On the main floor of my home I have seven computers hooked into this network and several others that I use as a sandbox. I had the servers off line and the cables rerouted to the machines I was using. The excess time and distraction to address the issue at TR was annoying to say the least and added considerable time to my task.

To browse a forum, there is no definable need, in my estimation, to deliver nag messages on every page. On my website I simply post a bright red message at the top of each page that you have JS or cookies disabled and that your experience would be improved by allowing them. No pop-up, pop-unders, etc.

The benefits of membership may be large, but at what point does the idle chit-chat detract from the benefits of membership or reduce those benefits to irrelevance? At what point do the often useless canned questions reach the point of irrelevance confuse the issue at hand. Yes, I understand that many who ask questions do not know much about computers and that we help these people as well as more serious issues and that sometimes many heads are better than one.

I really hold no issue against any here that I have not aired, but I do hold an issue with Ziff-Davis for the issue I am expressing displeasure with and withdrawing from.