I'm not sure if there really is an elephant in the room, or if I'm hallucinating, but I'll pick up a sharp stick and poke the pachyderm, just to see if it moves.

If the forum exists in part, maybe even a substantial part, in order to try and drive up subscription rates, then maybe a quick look at the "who's online" box on the left side of the page might provide some insight. As of this moment, 12 registered users and 251 guests. 20 onlookers, most of which are probably non-subscribers, to every registered user. Most of which probably ARE subscribers.

We're all familiar with "why buy the cow when you get the milk for free", I'm guessing? Has the PB forum become PB magazine's biggest detractor?

In my own case it's isn't about the money. Never has been. I just hate to buy anything and then not use it. Resources went into it's production. Natural resources, monetary resources, time resources, and labor resources. And I'm not reading it? That's wasteful on my part, and I don't like that.

It appears that >40% of subscribers do not re-up. Why?

"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"

If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.