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[Joe]

So I was just curios about paid contributions, not finding anything about that on here.

[B.E.T.]

Originally Posted by Joe

So I was just curios about paid contributions, not finding anything about that on here.

I could sure use a donation or 2...or 3... lol

[Hybrid]

its not been set up yet.

[TejasRider]

I'll pm you a paypal address you can use for now.

[not2slow]

Originally Posted by TejasRider

I'll pm you a paypal address you can use for now.

+ 1 you can be in on the ground floor, and you et a T shirt to boot

[Joe]

A lot of it probably comes from the fact that it IS difficult to run something like this. It's like the life cycle goes like this:
1.--Board starts out and has a few hundred dedicated members, board is being paid for by one or two people who are doing it as a hobby
2.--Board starts to grow. Users start joining faster than the one or two people running it thought they would. It starts getting more expensive to keep it up.
3.--Board starts to need money to continue to survive. Owners start asking for donations. Members oblige because they like the board.
4.--More members continue to join. Costs go up even more. Owners start looking at advertising options. Google Adsense or whatever makes this an easy task to do.
5.--Members start to get upset at changes and the addition of advertisements. It's the nature of the beast. People don't like to see ads in pretty much anything.
6.--Members start to think the board has gotten "too corporate" and that the owners "have forgotten what the site is all about."
7.--Members start to migrate to some other site where they feel that they aren't being bombarded by advertisements and it has more of a community feel.
8.--Original board starts to fade because less members clicking means less ad revenue. At the same time, the new board is starting to go through the initial stages of expansion that the initial board did.
9.--Cycle starts again.

So this board is at maybe 2. then?

[TejasRider]

we're at more like .5 right now.

[not2slow]

Originally Posted by Joe

So this board is at maybe 2. then?

Don't know where that is a copy and paste from from that about nails it. The whole cycle could be stopped around 4(or 5) if the board was so popular that enough true enthusiest were around to make it a modest pay per view site. It might keep a solid community for years that never had to deal with trolls/posers and also no advertisements. I know I would have no problem being a part of something like this.

[Alawicious]

I believe I'd contribute to something like that. Once it gets to 4, how hard would it be to set something like this up for the 29.95 monthly thing, or whatever?

[not2slow]

Originally Posted by Alawicious

I believe I'd contribute to something like that. Once it gets to 4, how hard would it be to set something like this up for the 29.95 monthly thing, or whatever?

+ 1