[blairbeckwith]

I fly in to a rage now every time I hear this. It's become completely and utterly meaningless. "If you're not paying, you're the product!" -> "If you're paying, you're just a better product for them to sell!"

It might be true, but there exists not a single person on this site who hasn't heard it, and it provides absolutely zero value.

It was never even true to start with. The act of paying for something in no way has ever made you ineligible as a source of other revenue.