While this is the oldest unresolved open issue, there are several others issues from 2002, such as "Can we have a 'Vote against' button?" from 5 Sep 2002. Your

While this is the oldest unresolved open issue, there are several others issues from 2002, such as "Can we have a 'Vote against' button?" from 5 Sep 2002. Your suggestions sounds like if they have a pay-for solution then they should close off a suggestion to a non-pay version. What they have seems that they want to keep that possibility open for the future. Your proposal makes it sound like they should be more avaricious. I can understand that some people may like the certainty that there will never been a non-pay version, but surely the knowledge that it's at least 8 months in the future is enough for most.