you've been a member for 5 and a half years, and made 5 posts. That's not really a contribution to the forum. Paying the $30 to 'contribute' so you can use us as your own personal gumtree/carsales/eBay seems fair enough to me. If you don't think so, you can go elsewhere.

If you sign up, the Forum Supporter status should overrule the post limit, allowing you to post, and no moderator will close your thread down if we see you are a forum supporter.