No, I paid for the ability to skip captchas. I did some extremely basic math when the image captchas got retarded and realized I would spend nearly 30 hours a year fucking with captchas here after they added those bullshit image ones.
$15 wasn't a high price at all to guarantee I can post replies to retards more quickly, and spend more time doing fun things and less time doing retarded captchas. The quicker post time, since4pass, and /vip/ are great bonuses as well.