heidiina,
Not really sure what your problem is, and really I could care less. Most of the remaining SB had no problem donating. Obviously you've never ran a site and covered hosting cost where media is constantly being uploaded. Bandwidth and storage cost money. And not $5.99 a month kinda website garbage hosting.
This site ( R.I.U.) allows advertisements where SB.com doesn't at the moment. So the money has to come from somewhere. Why not from the people directly benifiting from the time he's taken write everything out? Now I know SB probably doesn't use the storage and bandwidth of a site I run ( 6000+ members, 250 gig used/500 gig storage +4000 video sharing site and community ) but that site cost the members....not me...no point in me paying for it, $744.00 every six months. If they want it alive they will contribute. If they don't it will die. Easy as that.
Who cares if he used it for bills. He did all the work and laid out everything so even the most ignorant of wanna be growers like myself could follow it. If $50 isn't worth the information, then by all means...hit the road and don't let the door on your sealed for co2 flowering room hit cha[sic] where the good Lord split ya.
Sharing the the love and the information has not one thing to do with sharing bandwidth and overhead. The information is there for anyone to get. If you want extras like bandwidth eating image uploads so you can show off and 24/7 chat for emergency contact when your plants go belly up....then cough up the $50 and be happy it was so cheap. I never for one moment had any idea the money would be "to help others", and probably wouldn't have donated if it did. I wanted my money to go to SB. The one that did the work. I'd of been insulted if my money was used to benefit some idiot I didn't know, nor ever heard of...
....*shakes head*