I think people may be taking "Subscriber Area" too literally. Think "ideas for more donor benefits". They need not involve a walled off area of the board. For example, Jenett had an interesting one with the giveaway. That could be done without walling off part of the board -- an idea I'm not immediately fond of either. It's too much like spirituality is only for people with lots of spare cash for me. (However, I might be willing to consider a walled off "spell begging" forum where who want to demand to have spells designed for them have to pay.)
Also, even if we did wall off part of the board, it could be a transparent wall like the "Full Member" wall we had for our first 18 months to 2 years on SMF. Everyone could read the Full Member areas, but only those who had made 10 posts and applied for full membership successfully could post in them. While I don't think I'd be interested in a completely private area for subscribers, I would have less immediate objection to something like this. I'm not saying it would be an idea we should jump on, just that I'd have far less objection to it.
Yes to both.
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