Don't hold your breath expecting to get silver or gold status. They rarely reward silver status to any member there much less gold status (unless you pay for a membership). Ninety percent of the people who join amxf forum will never get access to any other area of the forum besides the free section. I've spent countless hours and bandwidth there uploading most of my amwf collection but the mods rarely acknowledge the effort. I was a member on their previous forum several years ago too, and they were the same way there. I see a lot of postings there where they try to get people to pay in order to get access to the restricted sections. Sometimes new members will post newly released videos and the mods will move them out of the free section (example of this is the Natasha Nice video that everyone is requesting here) and if you complain, they will ban you. There is a section there where they try to sell videos they ripped from the dvds they purchased also (maybe for a profit?). You can try to join amxf, but expect to pay with money for that silver membership.
How do you know what's happening behind the scenes and how our boards are working? Where did you get that percentage anyway? Or who's been banned and the reason behind the banning? Are you a statistician or a clairvoyant? If you have truly contributed on amxf and were ignored for some reason, please point me to your contri and if indeed they were material of great quality (not some old stuff being re-cycled over and over again), we are more than happy to accede to your request.
As a matter of fact, we don't need to justify anything to you since it's impossible to satisfy everybody but you can find out on our forum why the VIP lounge was created in the first place. One more thing, all of the admins and mods have steady jobs and income, we don't need the money to sustain ourselves. Furthermore, do you know how much importing a dvd from Japan costs? Please do some homework before flaming us with no apparent reason.
Most of the proven posters here are acknowledged on our forum as well. Have you contributed your stuff here?