Originally Posted by Myplanet2
Thanks for writing Pierrot.
The actual situation becomes somewhat obscured by people posting the contents of their speculations and misunderstandings, which grows from there.
for someone to read posts about this, it's not easy to get an accurate picture of the situation.
As I understand it, the situation goes like this:
Bill and Kerry found they had a common purpose and interest in discovering the truth in the area covered by Camalot, and to create a safe space for whistleblowers to come forward with what they know about it. And to make that information freely available to all people.
They both had or came into a bit of money, and used that to finance the project.
Fast forward to now.
they have both used up all of their personal money, and the project has come as far as it has. which is much farther than things were before Bill and Kerry started their project.
Their interviews with St Clair, Green, and Wilcock benefited Camelot, and St Clair, Green and Wilcock, as well as the rest of us who were able to follow along through their generosity.
As Bill and Kerry saw correspondence from more and more people displaying interest and support for their efforts, they decided to do the Avalon forum as a meeting/networking place for Ground crew as described in George Greens Channeled books.
Obviously, it took off harder than anyone expected it would. It's very popular.
But it was always the intention for it to be subscription based. It said so from day one. Right up front. The reason was for funding of the ongoing work. It was never for marketing considerations, as there has never been anything to sell.
There might be now, but the Camelot data has always been free, and will remain so, as per Bill and Kerry's statements.
Interviewing whistleblowers and truth tellers, is their job. It's just never paid them, aside from any generously given donations.
Now it's simply time to start paying them for their work, as otherwise, the work can't go on.
I personally think subscription is the way to go, for many reasons.
If I was them, I'd not like to have to depend on whether any felt like paying me something this month so I can pay my rent, or stock my refridgerator. Subscriptions will be predictable. Donations are not. What if your employer, or clients got to pay you "at their discretion"? How would that make you feel?
Me too.
There is going to be a great deal of added value to being a member here. It's never just been a place where people can go to yak. You can do that anywhere.
This place has always been purposefully created as a meeting/networking place for ground crew. Many hundreds who never understood that, or simply didn't care, have turned the forum into a majorly "off topic" forum. Much is on topic, but much is off topic.
Subscription will have the added bonus of weeding out lots of those who just insist on selfishly going on about anything they want to go on about, instead of making any effort to deal with the subject matters of Ground Crew.
This is all obviously my opinions based on my observations and discussions. But I believe this to give some context to some of what can be read in all these posts and threads about how people think Avalon can better serve THEM.
I think it's an honour to be able to be in service to Avalon, and be a part of it's service to Mankind.
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