Jack, perhaps it's time to revisit the subject of a site membership fee again?

I believe the vast majority of current DTR members would gladly accept a nominal charge for the privilege of playing in your sandbox.

Realizing that new users may balk at paying to play, the first 10 or 50 posts could remain free, with further site interaction requiring admission. Even though the multitude of passive users still drain system resources, surely there are more than enough active members who could be tapped to enhance their DTR experience.

I don't see the site stats you do, but considering DTR's rather large, loyal membership - 10,000 users paying only $5 or $10 each would buy enough server capacity for a (little ) while, anyhow...

 

Nah... they want to keep this a free site... I'm just gonna ad a link in my sig promoting the donations...

 

SOME of us hafta work for a livin' y'know! Oh yeah, I forgot... 'work' isn't a concept you're familiar with, it's just that dirty, four letter word!

Whatd'ya need, a written invitation? OK...

I DARE YA!

So there~!



chaikwa.

 

You got it, buddy!

 

I'm not apposed to this either, but I've seen it go bad (fast) on another less popular site. So much so that I have probably only been back twice since about late spring after all the non-sense.

There is a good example of a semi- pay to play site that I really like. It has different levels of membership which I think is gay, but how they limit the guys who don't pay is cool (I'm one of those guys). It's like, you can't see just about any of the pictures, about half of the threads (the tech section is one)

Anyway, I pretty much Know they want to stay free, so I suppose a fund raiser would be good.

How about making some of these wealthy advertisers kick in some product? That air intake giveaway really boosted interest. Also, didn't some jerk win a clutch around here? THAT would have been a good raffle item, huh?

 

I am having withdrawals, my avatar really shows my demented personality.
DTR people now understand me....

membership fee 20.00 paid through Paypal

avatar hostage money 10.00 paid through Paypal

having the security camera catch the thieving Siberian cookie monster-

yeah baby! priceless


Heidi in NY up late without supervision

 

i just noticed this morning. i miss my little green truck next to my name.

 

Well looky what's back!!! WooHoo!!!

 

Whenever I see this ----> as someone's chosen avatar I get to thinking no avatars is a GREAT idea!

Guys I have been oblivious to the whole donate to DTR thing. I think this is an awesome site. Another forum asks members to voluntarily support it and become a "premium member" by donating $20 which I did over there because I like that place too. So from now on I pledge $20 a year to help defray server costs and support DTR. That's $20 right now and $20 every Jan 1st thereafter. It's worth that to me. I think of it almost like a magazine subscription but the information and help here is far superior to any mag I ever had and the people here are cool.

 

I have mentioned to Mr Thorpe that I would like to see something that recognizes members that donate... something by their user name... something to that effect. We're working on it.

 

AWESOME, Great idea MAD!!!!!!!


Maybe just a $ symbol next to the "online" dot..............................

 

I donate a few hours a day on here, wasting time looking through threads and babbling. What will that get me next to my name?

 

Looks like it's already there!

 

I'll put something next to your name, if you really want me to...

 

An honorable mention