How about asking for optional subscriptions to pay for admi?

[Jani Soderhall]

Hope about getting members of this site to pay a little?

For the donation you get the following:

1. A blue star next to your name on posts so that people know what a wonderful person you are. (Yellow stars are the admins)
2. The ability to have a custom user title rather than the standard, newbie surfer, intermediate surfer etc.
3. The ability to have a custom avatar and profile picture rather than the standard ones.
4. More Private message storage (40 instead of 20)
5. The nice warm fuzzy feeling that you are helping this board to keep going and providing all that help and fun to members of the Surfing brother/sister hood (from now on know as "the hood").
6. Windscreen & bumper sticker

Thank's Paul, the announcement has been made.
I'll try to accomplish a few of your listed suggestions too.

1. A blue star next to your name on posts so that people know what a wonderful person you are. (Yellow stars are the admins)

That's a good idea. Every share you own gets you a star.

2. The ability to have a custom user title rather than the standard, newbie surfer, intermediate surfer etc.
3. The ability to have a custom avatar and profile picture rather than the standard ones.

This could be available to anyone, in case we find somebody to manage this task.

4. More Private message storage

Anyone needs more than they currently have?
I could just raise the general limit if you like.

5. The nice warm fuzzy feeling that you are helping this board to keep going and providing all that help and fun to members of the Surfing brother/sister hood (from now on known as "the hood").

It's only $25 and the "the hood" is now called "ISSA".

6. Windscreen & bumper sticker

And especially board and cone stickers! Yes, let's make this a project for the spring. Anybody has good contacts here? Chicken? Frank Henn? Can we obtain a quote? Any volounteer for the task?

/Jani

[Carsten Pingel]

Paul,
good idea !

cheers,
Carsten

[Paul Price]

Hope about getting members of this site to pay a little?

Here is something from another site which struck me as a good idea:


from www.toyotahilux.co.uk
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All.

An explanation of the Subscription / donations, what you get and what they are for.

This board is run on behalf of the members and is not for profit however it does cost money to run. The Web Hosting fees, the domain names, the forum software all cost money. Koi and I are not out to make money on this however we need to start recouping some of the ever mounting costs so we have set up the following level of donation that you can (voluntarily) use to help us keep it running.

1 years membership


Any extra money above the costs that is received from these donations will be put back to the members in various ways to be determined but could include food or something else at meets like the Devils pit one.

For the donation you get the following:

1. A blue star next to your name on posts so that people know what a wonderful person you are. (Yellow stars are the admins)
2. The ability to have a custom user title rather than the standard, newbie surfer, intermediate surfer etc.
3. The ability to have a custom avatar and profile picture rather than the standard ones.
4. More Private message storage (40 instead of 20)
5. The nice warm fuzzy feeling that you are helping this board to keep going and providing all that help and fun to members of the Surfing brother/sister hood (from now on know as "the hood").
6. Windscreen & bumper sticker

On the cost of the donations, the minimum donation will be as follows:

1 year membership = £10.00

So come on everyone, donations are not to send the admins on a nice holiday, just to help us keep what we feel is a useful forum up and running and ad free.