Official how to keep AO alive thread

[White_Noise]

i think disorder may be on to something...isnt that what pbn does?

[xballfan780]

I think if people had to pay to go on ao , I think the donation buttin would be good and a dontation though a thread , just think
If everyone on ao dontated 1 doller

thats what ? alot of dollers

[cphilip]

Kevin is right...Its been my observation that pay to post kills a site.

Trying to get Dealers to pay for banners and such is worth a shot. At this point Tom is saying that he retains AO... it did not go to AGD. So we will have to wait and see what he wants to do. For now we can just discuss things.

But I am against Paying for Membership. Because I think it will kill the site. Sponsorship is the way to explore. Is it feasable? I have no idea. But I am going to try and find out....

[personman]

I for one woudn't post anymore if there was a membership fee. It's not that I dont like AO, but a membership fee would give me a reason to get a LIFE.

But a donation button would be great. I would be more than willing to donate to AO. In fact, I've started a topic on donations in the past. AO is a great informative fourm and I would be more than happy to contribute to the AO fund.

I think that banners are a good idea. They may clutter up AO a bit, but its something you have to live with. PBN uses banners. I don't know how well they work, maybe you should bring it up with one of the PBN admins or something. I really never actually click on banners, I ignore them mostly. I dont know if other people do this as well, and if they do, then banners won't be very effective..

Edit:
What you might consider doing is disabling attachments.. I know that lots of people have grown to depend on them or whatever, but disabling people's ability to post pictures of retarded animated mortal kombat characters and other stupid pictures would cut down on bandwith

[Thordic]

Google AdSense is a good way to raise money for a site. Its working out pretty well on our game server site to help pay for the servers.

[Dubstar112]

I agree.. membership fee's are well over due if it the only solution. It was made clear a while ago that the financial costs of AO were high, by TK. I think we should incorporate a democratic system into AO.

Instead of all these little pie and what not revolutions doing nothing, form parties, divide the active portion of AO into groups, each having their own plan, and nominate their leader. When it comes down to a vote for president, that is the leader. Next we need sub levels, etc.... Some form of government is needed.

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[ScatterPlot]

Here's an idea. Put in a donation button, and underneath everyone's post count put in the amount they have donated. I dunno if it's possible with this code, but I bet we could figure it out somehow. It's time for the era of the donation whore who donates to up his amount. This would keep a good system going of who is really who in AO. Post counts used to mean something, now the whores have started to skew everything. A donation count would be just the answer; who REALLY is an AO'er?


But other than that- I think a pay for certain privaleges idea would be nice. Something like sig images maybe, probably not limit it to the posting of attachments altogether. Maybe an increased attachment limit to those who pay, kinda like Hotmail does.





My final thoughts? Donation meter. That would be bangin'.

[felony]

My final thoughts? Donation meter. That would be bangin'.

dont know if it would be banging, but it would be neato

[Miscue]

Anybody remember Paintballcity?

[Koosh]

Anybody remember Paintballcity?

Nope

And the lesson is, don't charge for forums...

[felony]

Nope

And the lesson is, don't charge for forums...

why cant you support the forums and then get to use your avatar or something stupid that all of us want?

dont give supporting memebers awesome privies, but give them a reason to support and make sure it doesnt make those who dont support not feel feel left out.

sometihng stupid like more available smilies, avatars, free dm4s, .. stuff like that

[Koosh]

why cant you support the forums and then get to use your avatar or something stupid that all of us want?

dont give supporting memebers awesome privies, but give them a reason to support and make sure it doesnt make those who dont support not feel feel left out.

sometihng stupid like more available smilies, avatars, free dm4s, .. stuff like that

A long time ago a popular paintball forum called paintballcity tried to charge people just for ACCESS to the forums... no one signed up, and that forum went down...

If AO tries to do the same thing, it'll die too.

So long as there is an option for "normal" people to view the forums, even if they have to deal with banner ads, no sigs, or posting pictures, we should be alright...

[felony]

thats what im saying.

dont screw the people over that dont pay, unless your goal is to run the forums.

i would pay like 10 dollars to be a supporting member and get some more smilies or something. I would pay that once a year, or somethign, but not monthly.

I think you can expect alot of users to sign up for that, but that is MO

[grw4w34]

Ive been a member of AO for a long time and i rarely post. I just like to read whats going on and most of the time my opinion is shared by someone else who post. I would donate when I could, but for me to pay a fee to be here would just make me stick to other places. I have less than 200 post and if i payed 10 bucks a year it would be 5 cents per post for me if i keep going at my rate. Actually more than that considering ive been here for about 4 years. It would be about 20 cents a post if i keep my current post rate. Thats not something i would want to do. I could post more, but i just dont see the point of being a post whore. For the people who post alot i can see how paying might not be a bad idea, however the people like myself would be turned away. The donation thing is a good idea and I would donate.

[Halliday]

I remember some other fourm that went to entry fees. What as the name of it..........? I think I paid once, saw how crappy it had become, and left for......dum dee dum...... PBN. It was just starting then too, as an alternative to the otehr paid forum.

I would not suggest AO become a pay fourm.