Paying for AO - Google Adds

[Creative Mayhem]

Oh, BTW, where is Zupe and how come he didnt make this anouncement? Just curious.

In theory, Tom still owns AGD, Zupe owns the inventory. I could be mistaken.

[Maggot6]

Here are some ideas

It is free to register, 150-250 posts, and after that you have to pay $10 or so. So that the new maggers can come, sort out their problems, ask questions etc. But for members that want to stay on the forum after 150-250 posts AND have been reported, flame people, or swear alot, etc will have to pay $20

Or

There is a subforum for new maggers, basically a tech and help section. So you can ask questions about your gun, or about AGD etc which is free,. But to go to classefieds, pb talk, meet&greet etc which you pay $10 or so for. It shouldn't be that hard to keep people out of the classefieds, pb talk etc, because I know on some forums there are places that say "mods only" or something, and you can't get in.

Or

Have an icon that says "donate" like the guy above said,

[Resurection]

To the AO Faithfull,

As we have seen with other sites, its a bad idea to charge the users to belong to this club. In an effort to keep AO alive and healthy we have decided to go with Google Adds in hopes that it will pay the bills and keep AO a fun place to meet and greet. If some of you find it irritating please consider the consequences of not having adds pay for this place.

Thanks for your support!

AGD

Tom,

I would have sent this privately, but no PM option.

Please contact me via email (drozelle AT gibroadband.com) because I have another possible solution. I own a small hosting company and have a few friends in teh business as well. If you can get one of your techy/webmasters to contact me with bandwidth info and such I might be able to take over the hosting aspect and would donate the space/bandwidth. Depends on how much we are talking about but I think I could do it. I have done this same type of donation in the past for other folks and it's always worked out great. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks!

Dave Rozelle

edit: I had to fix my email so it wouldn't get harvested.

[Eagle]

as long as they're banners and not popups, I won't freak.

[JoshK]

Tom,

I would have sent this privately, but no PM option.

Please contact me via email (*insert his email here*) because I have another possible solution. I own a small hosting company and have a few friends in teh business as well. If you can get one of your techy/webmasters to contact me with bandwidth info and such I might be able to take over the hosting aspect and would donate the space/bandwidth. Depends on how much we are talking about but I think I could do it. I have done this same type of donation in the past for other folks and it's always worked out great. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks!

Dave Rozelle

You sir have earned my respect, and are my newest hero.

[Resurection]

You sir have earned my respect, and are my newest hero.

Well I appreciate that. But my abilities to host/co-locate/help in general are not unlimited. But I would certainly be honored to help out in any way that I can. And by guessing on the traffic requirements of the bulliten board system here I think I could certainly do that.

Besides, picture hosting and signatures are already disabled, it can't be THAT much traffic.

[-=Squid=-]

For the love of God, why doesn't AO have a 'donate' button?

[frischtr]

as long as they're banners and not popups, I won't freak.

They aren't popups or banners... They slide in after every 8 or 9 posts in a thread, as though they are a post themselves... They use them over at bikeforums.net, another forum that I frequent...

[Muzikman]

Tom,

I would have sent this privately, but no PM option.

Please contact me via email (drozelle AT gibroadband.com) because I have another possible solution. I own a small hosting company and have a few friends in teh business as well. If you can get one of your techy/webmasters to contact me with bandwidth info and such I might be able to take over the hosting aspect and would donate the space/bandwidth. Depends on how much we are talking about but I think I could do it. I have done this same type of donation in the past for other folks and it's always worked out great. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks!

Dave Rozelle

edit: I had to fix my email so it wouldn't get harvested.

Let's put it this way, currently AO is running on it's OWN server that was purchased by Tom to run AO, so it uses more space and bandwith than most small hosting providers would support. But every little bit helps, so let's see if Tom gets in contact with you. And I personally thank you for the thought, even though I am nobody.

[Resurection]

Let's put it this way, currently AO is running on it's OWN server that was purchased by Tom to run AO, so it uses more space and bandwith than most small hosting providers would support. But every little bit helps, so let's see if Tom gets in contact with you. And I personally thank you for the thought, even though I am nobody.

OWN server doesn't mean high bandwidth or requirements, but those situations are why I have several dedicated IPS and some colocation options.

[Miscue]

For only $9.99/month - you get HOT, LIVE-ACTION video feeds from AGD HQ (from a QuickCam we got for free). We've got the sexiest paintball technicians on the Internet! Get a voyeur's look into marker assembly, lubing of o-rings, and witness paintball markers being chronographed, you guessed it, HOT! Cameo appearances by the AGD-Ladies walking by... SIZZLING!

[JoshK]

I will buy that subscription!

[Soopa Villain17]

me to

[AGD]

Guys,

Thanks for the offers to help but right now I am curious to see what happens with the Google stuff. Its fairly simple to implement so I am going to wait a bit and see what comes of it. If it doesnt work I will come here and ask for sugestions.

I think that donations for sigs and such is a great idea but I dont think the forum software allows that on an individual basis. Yes I still own "all of this" so I am concerned about its future. We serve just under a gig a month FYI.

Thanks!

AGD

[thecavemankevin]

no that you need any of our permission, but its fine with me.

hope it works