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alot of the forums I go to have a donate button, but the people who donate get special features like a little star by their name, etc...and it seems to work! most don't donate, but you see all kinds of people with little stars. and I rarely get a "server busy" message.
Jaggededges Idea is great. I have seen the idea put to power in many social, heavily populated forums. A "VIP" section or "Elite Stoner" section.
Give a few of the senior guys free membership into it to get it going and then setup the option to buy it. forum addicts love having special colored names or special status's on forums.
A donation option should also be added in addition.
ill add that I am so high right now i cant think so I hope this makes sense
EDIT:: I do agree the server is busy alot now! You could do a hotswap on your drives to a new server and get maybe tops 5 hours downtime for the change.
I'll donate.
wonder if sundance would sell the site?
-shake
They actually did this a long time ago, on the before cannabis.com marihemp boards, which this one end up sort of replacing. They had a gold membership and people would pay a one time fee for a bigger-sized avatar space, access to other sites, all kinds of stuff. It wasn't a bad idea back then and would work now.
when this site was more popular and a good source to hookup weed membership did not work. Donating never works on the internet that is why torrents and warez are so popular, because people will not part with their money when they can get it free.
when was that chameleon?
and that's a pretty broad generalization that's not even close to true!!! (about the downloading part.)
-shake
2004/2006 this was a major MOM site the current owner changed that.Quote:
Originally Posted by headshake
and it is a general statement but you will find that the majority of the people that traverse forum sites like this adhere to it.
there are brilliant minds that create amazing open source software and their donation totals are abysmal while their download totals are through the roof.
someone mentioned legal, scenario : johnny pays for a cannabis website with moms credit card, should I continue?
i agree chameleon! but there is also plenty of success that doesn't get near the publicity because it harms the RIAA/MPAA (and others) fight to persecute people. when the fact of the matter is they have been ripping people off for years, legally, and laughing about it.
check out radioheads last album, in:rainbow (or something similar). they put it on there website, with no major label backing and let you pay whatever you wanted for it. from free to "regular" retail price ($10 i think). some people did download it for free while many paid. and i can't remember or find the actual figures, but they ended up making as much or more than they would have with a record deal.
it costs between $.85 and $1.15 to press and package a retail cd and the artist sees maybe a dollar of the retail sale price.
it's mereley people eating for free. and it's up to us as consumers (the most powerful group of people on the planet currently) to buck current trends and set forth new, more relevant ones!
definitely agree with the statement about most forum traversers!
good convo!
-shake
tried to reply to this post earlier but got the useall server to busy:mad:just got back on and checked how many uses. 24 members and 498 guests. no wonder why us members have trouble with all the guests takeing up all the space. imo guests should only be able to browse once for 30 mins to see if it's a site they want to join and to contribute to, they should then be given a choice to join or be blocked. it's not fair on us members.
One hour blackout...every night at midnight...(local time)....:wtf: