[T*]

Originally Posted by Josy

Well sorry to burst your bubble Tom but James has been thinking of things like this for a while now

Nah, I was joking around with sam about the PayPal thing because I posted it before him

[reece(:]

I'm on another forum where like 85% donate for coloured names and GIFfy avs and I'm in the 15% that does not pay and do not feel lesser at all.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Josy

There is not one post/comment in this thread that would suggest you do pay to come on here, if there was a VIP Subscription feature it would be optional, for members that wanted to pay for it, that is all.

my post still stands, a few silly gimmicks in a vip feature!.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by Tom!

I feel sorry for mark having to pay out of his own pocket, This would be a simple solution
that would keep the forum running and keep the adverts at bay.

How much does it usually cost him? If anyone knows

[T*]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

my post still stands, a few silly gimmicks in a vip feature!.

Yes, But it would mean that the owner of the site that is paying with his own money doesn't have to anymore.

[T*]

Originally Posted by Salman!

How much does it usually cost him? If anyone knows

Well I would say between Ł80 and Ł120 per year, and that's not even counting the forum server cost.

[Jay.]

I'm not sure if it had already been said, what about users bars too so it's more obvious who the staff and mods are? the vip's could have them too, like these but maybe nicer, below your username?

[Drew.]

I'll donate 50p for a nice purple name.

[Firewire]

Originally Posted by reece(:

I'm on another forum where like 85% donate for coloured names and GIFfy avs and I'm in the 15% that does not pay and do not feel lesser at all.

"pay for a coloured name" omg *pays Ł500 for fuchsia*

is this what people want because

[T*]

If this gets implemented, I will definitely back it and hopefully i'll have my debit card by then

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by Jay.

I'm not sure if it had already been said, what about users bars too so it's more obvious who the staff and mods are? the vip's could have them too, like these but maybe nicer, below your username?

User bars <3

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Tom!

Yes, But it would mean that the owner of the site that is paying with his own money doesn't have to anymore.

its members that make this site not the owner, like kazanne has said, you can make a site for free.

[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

its members that make this site not the owner, like kazanne has said, you can make a site for free.

And we all know how well Kazanne's site is going, right?

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Jessica‪

And we all know how well Kazanne's site is going, right?

actually its kate's site.

[Me. I Am Salman]

the subscription page looks like this on another forum I use, they have these userbars
I don't subscribe as I only just lurk so don't know the features

[T*]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

its members that make this site not the owner, like kazanne has said, you can make a site for free.

Yes, BUT THIS SITE ISN'T FREE. If we cut all spendings from the site we couldn't have:

• A proper domain (It'd have to be a domain like thisisbigbrother.freeforums.free.com
• The website and forum on the same host (They'd have to be seperate websites)
• Many other things

And:

• It'd have a limited amount of users allowed
• It'd be cluttered with adverts
• Hard to find

[Daniel.]

Yeees

[Cherie]

no

[T*]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

actually its kate's site.

Kate is backing this, Your argument is invalid

[Josy]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

its members that make this site not the owner, like kazanne has said, you can make a site for free.

This site wouldn't be here or have the visitors it does if it wasn't for the owner starting it and financing it for over 10 years, then James constantly working to keep it running, upgrading servers I could go on and on, of course member's keep the place busy and play a massive part in making the forum what it is, but to discredit James and Mark is just rude.

Also yes you could make your own forum for free and put up with advertising that you have no control over, limited access to adding all of the addons and modifications that forum members are always asking for and no way to prevent server crashes and errors because you don't have any control over them either.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Tom!

Kate is backing this, Your argument is invalid

its not an argument, its facts!

[T*]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

its not an argument, its facts!

Read my other post above, You obviously don't know how hard it is to run websites.

[Samm]

Does ads make money for the forum

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Sam <3

Does ads make money for the forum

Yes.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Josy

This site wouldn't be here or have the visitors it does if it wasn't for the owner starting it and financing it for over 10 years, then James constantly working to keep it running, upgrading servers I could go on and on, of course member's keep the place busy and play a massive part in making the forum what it is, but to discredit James and Mark is just rude.

Also yes you could make your own forum for free and put up with advertising that you have no control over, limited access to adding all of the addons and modifications that forum members are always asking for and no way to prevent server crashes and errors because you don't have any control over them either.

the facts are, this site would be nothing without the members, in turn not here with out big brother, yes the owner started the site, if he has a problem funding it then let him raise this issue, also I have not knocked the work james does!