I've never recommended anyone before. And nobody had to do that for me either. Has KLOV gotten elitist?
For anyone wanting to provide a recommendation, make sure you're logged in to KLOV and go
here to enter the username of the person you are vouching for.
The donate or get a recommendation process isn't eliteism, but an attempt to keep the full-blown bat-guano crazy of Driverman and his myriad alter-egos off the board.

As I understand it, after many warnings for unacceptable behavior, he got perma-banned, but created another user account. People quickly noticed the same traits that lead to the original ban -- lather, rinse, repeat -- ad nauseum.
He has done this on
multiple boards including BYOAC.
In order to process the donation, PayPal's fraud prevention verifies that you are a real person associated with the credit card used -- much harder to trick them than putting in a temp e-mail and bogus info to create a fake user account.
Scott