Ok, where shall we start?
Everything in the world requires money. This site has ONLY remained around for so long because of great people like Dames who has a heart and a pocket for all of the users on this site. The time is here again, as it was a few years ago when we asked for money to purchase needed improvements and software. Currently the forums, ran on Invision Board v1.3.1, is no longer supported or developed and as server side software increases, the forums will lose more and more features. We are trying to raise money to purchase a "Perpetual license" of the forum software which will give us a life long license to run these forums with the latest software version legally. From donations(Popicks' for the most part) we were able to purchase the article manager software which cost $300 several years ago, this is one of many costs we had. The server it self recently was upgraded and moved to a co-location facility, and we won't experience as many slowdowns or outages at all compared to the old server.
Now that I have written an essay of why we need money and hopefully for what, any type of donation will be helpful. The simple, TEXT only based advertisements on this site have raised a few dollars and we are still debating rather to keep them or not, which mainly depends on the money we can raise through other methods. We ONLY make money on the ads when they are clicked, rather than by page views.
We have setup a PayPal donation fund, at the following e-mail address:
[email protected]
DO NOT send money to ANY other address advertised or seen, as this is the only official one.
The current PayPal fees for accepting a payment on a business account is 2.9% of the donation plus an additional $0.30. The fee is assessed for each and every payment accepted. Here's a chart of what this means:
Donation Tax Table
($) --- Fee ---- ($)Net ---- ($) %Lost
1 ----- 0.33 ----- 0.67 ----- 33.00%
2 ----- 0.36 ----- 1.64 ----- 18.00%
3 ----- 0.39 ----- 2.61 ----- 10.10%
5 ----- 0.45 ----- 4.55 ----- 9.00%
10 ---- 0.59 ----- 9.41 ----- 5.90%
15 ---- 0.74 ---- 14.26 ---- 4.93%
20 ---- 0.88 ---- 19.12 ---- 4.40%
25 ---- 1.03 ---- 23.97 ---- 4.12%
50 ---- 1.75 ---- 48.25 ---- 3.50%
75 ---- 2.48 ---- 72.52 ---- 3.31%
100 --- 3.20 ---- 96.80 ---- 3.20%
This means that if the site were to receive 1000 five dollar donations ($5000 total donated) through PayPal, it would cost the site $450 in "PayPal Tax" fees. On the other hand, if the site were to receive 50 one-hundred dollar donations ($5000 total donated), it would only cost the site $160 in fees. 5000 one dollar donations would cost a whopping $1650!!
So please consider making a donation. We are working on maybe offering an auction on eBay of something more worth while and physical for money.
Also the new server has PLENTY of bandwidth and space, waiting to be leased out, if you have ANY type of LEGAL hosting needs, please let us know via E-Mail or PM on the forums.
Yes, Porn sites are legal, as long as the appropriate disclaimers and copyrights are abided by.
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Please keep unneeded comments out of this topic and place them into the general "Site Feedback" folder. Yes, the unnecessary post so far has been removed and future ones will be too. There is no need to ramble on about things in here.
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Question by: MrRant
Answer: The forums as of right now will remain IPB based because of their features. PHPBB has been considered strongly, but the conversion to any other forums will never copy over everything (function wise) from these forums.
Also, you can only go so far with "free" stuff.
Question by: alfdogg
Answer: The Donation Bucket is currently ONLY going towards purchasing a life time license. Currently the monthly server cost is being taken care of by Dames and my self at this point, as well as a few websites which we have hosted on the same server. Every cent collected will go towards the purchase of the new forums software which comes with support.
Question by: The Max
Answer: I personally NEVER want to see a POP-Up AD on this site on ANY page, I hate them and I know forum readers would hate them even more. I think being that forceful and using holes in Internet Explorer or other browsers to advertise is just as bad as these Spam Bots which browse websites finding e-mails and adding them to a spam list. It’s outrageous and while I am here the member’s privacy and site it self will never stoop that low. As for those sport ads, I will check into them, I would prefer to even stay away from picture ads, however if revenue from the Goooooogle Text based ads don't increase then they may be next, but that’s the end of the road in advertising.
BTW. Let me or someone know when you find you PayPal address
Question by: Stephen Joseph
Answer: From what I recall a few years ago, through asking donations, we raised about $400 which bought the article manager (For life) & the first month on the server. Yes, I beleive $300 of that was your generous donation.
Question by: Some Guy
Answer: There is no need to close it because some people may have legitimate questions. Other comments, just extend the length of this topic and make it multiple pages, which is unneeded if valid questions or comments are left.
