f13.net Subscription & Server Donation Thread.

[schild]

http://www.f13.net/subscribe/ <-- Have at ye!

So guys. It looks like Paypal allows you to make a subscription button at any value. I'm thinking of making one for $5 a month that grants you absolutely nothing except the feeling that you are supporting something. We would make no guarantees or anything of that sort and you would purely be doing this out of your own self-interest. I mean, what's $5? Is anyone interested in this?

Edit: As a point of reference, if 20 people subscribed, the server would be paid for for a year. If 50 people subscribed, I'd think about doing game raffles or something among subscribers. If 100 people subscribed, I'd be able to get a second server as a game server in addition to the previous stuff. If a thousand people subscribed, I'm not gonna lie, I'd make this full time work and make it serious business. But that's not gonna happen. Once again, we offer nothing right now.

Edit 2: We still need a lot more subs. Also, feel free to donate regularly.

[schild]

I am COMPLETELY aware this is insane. So there's no need to go that route on it. But if it works, it works and I can stop worrying about money when the renewals come around.

Edit: If you're wondering, you can blame my cold, unfeeling heart and this whole idea on this thread.

Edit 2: Also, a few people offered to pay it, that's the other reason this exists. It's not that it seemed like a good idea (because it seemed insane), it just seemed like an IDEA. So I'm throwing it out there.

Edit 3: Since someone asked - no, this would not offer any sort of protection from bans or give you a license to be a jackass. This is simply a good will thing. With enough people involved it would simply take some weight off my shoulders each year, and god willing should everything turn out OK on my end with flash/iphone/android dev - etc, I could remove all the donation stuff and just do this purely as a hobby where the cost doesn't matter. Of course, not everything in life is guaranteed, and this is just subsidy. It is, quite literally, nothing for something - nothing other than insuring the future of f13.

[bhodi]

I fully support giving schild $5 and receiving nothing but the warm feeling of goodwill in return.

[schild]

I fully support giving schild $5 and receiving nothing but the warm feeling of goodwill in return.

You have warmed the parts of my heart that are still discernible in my graveyard-like chest cavity.

[Tebonas]

Is there any advantage for you over getting paid per year?

Because if there is, I might consider it.

[schild]

Is there any advantage for you over getting paid per year?

Because if there is, I might consider it.

Yes, asking people for $60 straight up is too much but $5 a month? What's $5 a month?!

Also, subscriptions help me keep better books (lol). Or rather, it guarantees X amount from X people over X amount of time. Thus making things just.... well, easier.

Edit: I should note: I have no clue clue whatsoever how the subscription thing works. That is to say, Paypal might take $1 out of each one. In which case, numbers would vary slightly, but in the long term it's still easier to deal with and count on. So, yes, it's mostly an ease and reliability thing. Again, What's $5?!

[Nonentity]

I support this initiative!

I would hand over $5 a month. What's $5?!

[JWIV]

It's two cups of coffee!  Maybe even three. 

[schild]

It's two cups of coffee!  Maybe even three. 

Quantifying it ruins the fun. You're either in or out, no standing on the line!

Also, What's two cups of coffe?!

The answer is not $5.

[Tebonas]

Hmm, interesting. I'm somewhat screwed in the head. 5 dollars a month sounds worse to me that 60 dollars once a year. Guess thats why I loved that lifetime account for Lotro. Do you offer lifetime accounts?

[Brogarn]

Add me too. Hell, I throw far more away than 5 bucks a month on taxes for crap I'll never see. Why not for something that I actively use to keep boredom at bay during the work week?

[schild]

Hmm, interesting. I'm somewhat screwed in the head. 5 dollars a month sounds worse to me that 60 dollars once a year. Guess thats why I loved that lifetime account for Lotro. Do you offer lifetime accounts?

If there is enough call for a subscription button that says $60 billed once every twelve months, I could do that as well! I mean, "What's $60?!" doesn't have the same ring to it. It becomes Nothing for SOMETHING instead of Nothing for Something.

Edit: If that wasn't clear, I was joking - I'm not offering anything besides $5 a month. This is Nothing for Something.

[Righ]

For $5 per month, you get either:

• Title changed to Terracotta Chariot
• Post count hidden
• Each post counts as two posts
• Choose one thread in Politics to be mysteriously deleted
• Choose the server time
• Green name

You can buy multiple 'benefits' if you have enough nuggets.

[schild]

For $5 per month, you get either:

• Title changed to Terracotta Chariot

• Post count hidden
• Each post counts as two posts

• Choose one thread in Politics to be mysteriously deleted

• Choose the server time
• Green name

You can buy multiple 'benefits' if you have enough nuggets.

I really don't want to incentivize is, but the bolded ones are brilliant.[/list]

[Tebonas]

I'd rather have a title like "Terracotta Mercenary" than lose the fun I have laughing at the most retarded Politics threads.

[schild]

Don't talk about what you want. I'm not offering anything for $5.

What's $5?!

 

[SnakeCharmer]

Sure why not.

[schild]

Sure why not.

THAT'S THE ENTHUSIASM I WANT (AND DESERVE)!

[Hindenburg]

What's $5?!

Given current exchange rates, a month's supply of ramen.

The politics deletion suggestion would make that place cease to exist within the week.

[Righ]

C'mon, it wouldn't stop the retarded conversations for a second. If somebody deleted a thread in progress a new one would appear in a minute. It might be annoying to some people who didn't read the thread for a few days, but it would be hilarious and it goes with the "here be dragons" ethic of the forum.  

[schild]

The politics deletion suggestion would make that place cease to exist within the week.

Sure. If we got enough subs. But then I'd have hookers and blow, so you think I'd care?

[Hindenburg]

Oh, I get it now, you're ripping off Lowtax. 

[schild]

Oh, I get it now, you're ripping off Lowtax. 

AFAIK, Lowtax hasn't cashed in on the one thing he could make real bank on.

A worksafe template. Pay to be able to make a completely worksafe template, complete with own censor dictionary, for work. He would get fucking piled on with subs for that.

[Tebonas]

I'd pay for that. 5$ a month for removal of "fucking" from all thread titles. I don't know anymore exactly how retarded Restate really is. 

[schild]

I'd pay for that. 5$ a month for removal of "fucking" from all thread titles. I don't know anymore exactly how retarded Restate really is. 

I offer nothing. Anything that may occur or appear at a later date is not guaranteed. I'm not saying things will or won't occur, but there are no guarantees. This is simply $5 a month, appearing in my bank account, disappearing from yours, and nothing being returned. I'm not even going to offer refunds (because that would be stupid).

[Righ]

I'd pay for that. 5$ a month for removal of "fucking" from all thread titles. I don't know anymore exactly how retarded Restate really is. 

That could be done with a filter fairly easily. So $5 a month to connect to the filtering proxy. Interesting.

[schild]

I'd pay for that. 5$ a month for removal of "fucking" from all thread titles. I don't know anymore exactly how retarded Restate really is. 

That could be done with a filter fairly easily. So $5 a month to connect to the filtering proxy. Interesting.

See, maybe Righ will hand me some code or some shit and magically you'll have gotten something for your $5! but for now! you get nothing! except a warm feeling in your stomach.

[Arthur_Parker]

Do you need to pay tax on this?

[gimpyone]

Add me too.

[schild]

Do you need to pay tax on this?

lol

cute

For serious though: if this amounts to anything that I'd need to pay taxes on, sure. Likelihood of that happening: Zero.

[Nevermore]

Does this mean at some point you'll take the 'server fund' and disappear to God knows where?

[schild]

Does this mean at some point you'll take the 'server fund' and disappear to God knows where?

You mean like I did in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009? OBVIOUSLY.

[Brogarn]

You mean like I did in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009? OBVIOUSLY.

Those years you were just lulling people into a false sense of trust and security. Finally, you have them in your grasp and are bringing your evil plan to its fortuitous end.

 

[Tebonas]

Lighten up, schild. The fact that I gave you 50 dollars a few months ago should tell you that I am aware of that. Hell, I couldn't even give a fuck about that second server you talked about because I wouldn't have use for that anyway.

And if I'm still as entertained and not completely shut out by my corporate firewall, I'll do the same this year. Or do it monthly if its all the same (on both my and your side).

Everything else is just shooting the breeze. But somehow you imagine I want something from you, in contrast to the other people joking around here.

[IainC]

Is it easy to join?

I'd chip in.