Paid account or not paid account?

Time for my annual rumination - to renew a paid account or not to renew a paid account...

Polls are nice, so are extra userpics (although you get half a dozen with the basic account now), but are there enough things I'd miss to make it worth the cost?  Tricky.  I suspect it's possible to get so used to a feature that you forget it isn't a basic one.  I know there are a lot of 'paid' features that I don't use.

There are also features that I've no idea how to access.  I've noticed that one of the journals I read has a tag menu down the side - with the most frequently used tags in  larger fonts.  Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Spam from Sheffield Hallam...

I'm sure at least one person on my flist is connected with Sheffield Hallam university.  Do you think the psychology department know their PhD students are spamming LJ?

( Spam sample )

paid account

Well, that's solved the paid account conundrum.  I appear to have a mystery benefactor.

Thanks! 

I'm now experimenting on what people told me about getting tags to display and have discovered in the process that I have a lot of tags that I've only used once...  I shall probably be deleting some of them.