Thread: ROLCLUB has to charge 25Usd/year to cover its expenses!read!

Originally Posted by Trivek

Hi BB,

Thanks for the response. I understand why you need to track registered user posts. Any person or troll can register on this forum with an email address and can read, post and bring information to other forums, so it seems pointless to make people sign up to do so that do not wish to post.

Why not turn posting for "Guests" off?

thanks

Dear Trivek, postings from Guests have been off for past 3 months. If someone has a Guests staus today it is because some moderator removed that username, but didnt remove their posts. When the username is removed from the database, it still leaves a Guest Nick on that post.

regards
admin

Admin, I am quite new to this forum but am open to paying a small fee for it to continue. However, may I make a couple of suggestions? Start with a smaller fee, either $10 per 6 months, or the quarterly $5 mentioned by someone else earlier in this thread. I think you will get more signups and in the end, it will be more profitable.

Please allow PayPal as a payment option. It is such a headache to fund e-gold or e-buillion...Paypal is much easier.

Just want to add, I'd certainly rather pay $25 for a year here, than $120 for a year at BTI! I like this forum MUCH better!

I am happy to pay too. Its a service that is needed and I believe has been proven invaluable in recent times.

Paypal or Stormpay is a good payment option for me.

Thanks admin for all you do.

:)

Originally Posted by BigBrother

With a registration we can monitor the site better and have more control over what is posted by who.

If all were guests, how could we then remove those that post troll posts on ROLCLUB.

regards

BB

admin,

I was referring to this post above from BB, which suggests that guests would be allowed to post if they were able to view all posts in this forum.

Since guests can't post, then why not enable them to view all the posts on this forum, since most people just come to read the information?

[quote="Trivek"]

Originally Posted by BigBrother

With a registration we can monitor the site better and have more control over what is posted by who.

If all were guests, how could we then remove those that post troll posts on ROLCLUB.

regards

BB

I believe that phpBB forum does not have such an option, that why we cant do that.

I request all to keep this thread membership post related, so we dont fall to far off topic. any tech questions can be asked in the tech forum.
Regards

Admin

Admin ,

I would opt for the smaller payment , say $5.00 and see how it goes

Most people would be willing to spend five bucks for the previlage

of staying informed . Make it mandatory for everyone and that

would raise $35000 for you . I would think that might get you

enough to to work with until you (we) can figure out a better

solution . That would take care of the immediate need for capitol

you need to make the changes you need to make . I'm not against

paying , if you need more , do it quarterly or however . It's just that

$25 is alot for some , me included , but i can up with $5 maybe 10 .

Thanks

Smoke

Wow, why do I feel like I am getting the run around?

This is a membership related question as it relates to saving money for you and/or members.

Bottom line: Allowing guests to view all posts would = less sign ups which would = more free space for the database.

Am I right here or not?

I agree with smoke's suggestion.

It is not much to pay $5.00 or $10.00 initially and get your plan put into action and hopefully 10,000 x 10 x 80% = $80,000.00. This will at least give you a kick start straight away and I believe there will be majority who would be prepared to pay $10.00 per year of subscription.

Not much to ask to come to a forum for one year and get the latset information on Pxp and other news etc

Originally Posted by Trivek

Wow, why do I feel like I am getting the run around?

This is a membership related question as it relates to saving money for you and/or members.

Bottom line: Allowing guests to view all posts would = less sign ups which would = more free space for the database.

Am I right here or not?

hi trivek. No No, i think i might have been unclear. Sorry for that.

We are currently using very little of the space we have. Thats not the problem, The problem is bandwith transfer, and that has nothing to say when it comes to registering or not registering on this forum,as space and bandwith are two diffrent matters :-) .

So that would not solve anything. what we need is a server with high bandwith transfer. 4000 BM of hosting space is more then enough for us for a very long time, but its the Bandwith that is making all these problems.

Regards

admin

Oh great and powerful Joser. Did it ever occur to you that maybe the admin is new to running forums and was only informed today that he could do better by having banners and accepting donations? Why don't you help, instead of accuse?