If you thought that was a buzzkill... Just FYI... The site does have a few bills here and there ($24/month hosting, ~$15/year domain name, and then ~$150 whenever we pay for xenforo which we haven't done in two years) Any money made on the site should pay the bills first.
Why not just ask registered members for an annual donation...How much can it be equally divided amongst the faithful? If this other thing doesn't t happen.
Just to be clear, I don't mind paying for DSP, so there's no *need* for the site to make money And I don't feel the need to ask for donations (but of course they're always accepted). But if the site is making money. The bills have to get paid first.
We have always been allergic to monetization. Allergic to ads, allergic to selling people stuff, allergic to asking for cash. After years of suffering through allergies I discovered Claritin.
We can design shirts. With all of our avatars. Every time someone changes theirs, we make a new shirt, meaning people have to keep buying our merch to stay current.
require users to have an active credit card on file charge users for each post, 5¢ a word start giving random warnings, charging $1 each time charge $5/day for bans mods and admins (the creators) are of course exempt to any fines/assessments also... employ the deadbeats living in rube's commune as wage slaves to create our products pay them nothing if they decline, throw their bum asses out on the street and/or beat their broke asses
1 cent fee to post 10 cent thread creation fee 1 cent per ten characters over 144 1 cent per character over 1000 1 dollar per character over 5000 (ruven repeater luxury tax) $1/day inactivity fee 2 cent bonus for each like 1 cent bonus each time a post is replied $5 ban reinstatement fee peoples' commisar / general secretary is immune from all fees
Now you guys gettin it. Irish will do Marx, Craig does Stalin... who do I get? Reagan, Hitler, or Churchill?
i was going to say hillary but that would be way too extreme go with someone milder than her... like say pol pot, klaus barbie, idi amin...
