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4X4 · 03-09-2006, 11:53 PM

In the interest of avoiding redundancy, I'm not going to post that I just simply couldn't access the forums (for more than 5 minutes here and there) the past couple of days. I'm not going to speculate that the influx of noobs and the trade deadline pushed the server into territory that it can't handle. I'm not going to complain that my crack has been watered down with icing sugar (and I'm not going to give credit to whoever (probably fotze) first made that remark). And I won't bother wondering out loud whether the playoffs will be even worse that the trade deadline.

What I am going to do is suggest that one time donations are handy, but they probably don't teach the 'new' server to fish.

Is it possible to have accounts that are connected to paypal or something, that we could voluntarily pay a penny a post? Really, it's not much to the addicts, but it's gotta add up for the admin. If 100 of us addicts actually signed up for this and between us we made 200 posts per day (that's 2 posts each, Einstein).... 60 bucks per month for the server, a buck twenty is what is cost the addicts. For a month of crack. Even heavy posters wouldn't be spending more than a couple bucks a month.

OR... As previously suggested... Just some kind of flat rate per year. Fawk... You know that at least a a quarter of us will pay it. 10 bucks per year. No big hit to our individual pocketbooks, but with 300 of us paying it, thats 3 grand a year or 250 a month...
Give the paying guys a shiny star by their name and they're happy. Better yet, give them the ability to have avatars or sigs and watch the money roll in.

Hell... Forget all of what I just said and do this... Let me pay 10 or 20 or fricken 50 bucks right now and guarantee that my IP is front of the line. (ok, that's probably impossible, but if it were possible, the sign-up rate for this would be phenominal. Heck, you'd have enough cash to buy a top of the line server that could handle so many posters that you'd never have to tell any of us that we are a bunch of morons who ALL think that we are front of the line.).

But please do something. I need this place for my hockey fix. NHL isn't exactly front page news over here...

03-09-2006, 11:53 PM	#41
4X4 One of the Nine Join Date: Dec 2004 Exp:	In the interest of avoiding redundancy, I'm not going to post that I just simply couldn't access the forums (for more than 5 minutes here and there) the past couple of days. I'm not going to speculate that the influx of noobs and the trade deadline pushed the server into territory that it can't handle. I'm not going to complain that my crack has been watered down with icing sugar (and I'm not going to give credit to whoever (probably fotze) first made that remark). And I won't bother wondering out loud whether the playoffs will be even worse that the trade deadline. What I am going to do is suggest that one time donations are handy, but they probably don't teach the 'new' server to fish. Is it possible to have accounts that are connected to paypal or something, that we could voluntarily pay a penny a post? Really, it's not much to the addicts, but it's gotta add up for the admin. If 100 of us addicts actually signed up for this and between us we made 200 posts per day (that's 2 posts each, Einstein).... 60 bucks per month for the server, a buck twenty is what is cost the addicts. For a month of crack. Even heavy posters wouldn't be spending more than a couple bucks a month. OR... As previously suggested... Just some kind of flat rate per year. Fawk... You know that at least a a quarter of us will pay it. 10 bucks per year. No big hit to our individual pocketbooks, but with 300 of us paying it, thats 3 grand a year or 250 a month... Give the paying guys a shiny star by their name and they're happy. Better yet, give them the ability to have avatars or sigs and watch the money roll in. Hell... Forget all of what I just said and do this... Let me pay 10 or 20 or fricken 50 bucks right now and guarantee that my IP is front of the line. (ok, that's probably impossible, but if it were possible, the sign-up rate for this would be phenominal. Heck, you'd have enough cash to buy a top of the line server that could handle so many posters that you'd never have to tell any of us that we are a bunch of morons who ALL think that we are front of the line.). But please do something. I need this place for my hockey fix. NHL isn't exactly front page news over here...