No, it is just the little graphic that is showing the check box. If you click it, the link turns into "Unsubscribe from this forum" and the picture becomes and X in the box.

First Spire and Second Spire are both excellent, but Third Spire is really, really bad. I don't think I will ever buy it unless I am running out of AAs to buy.

I don't know about MAXing AAs, but I know that I have about 1450 and I am still buying good, useful things.