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kanatarider
06-11-2008, 01:33 PM
Hey
An idea occured to me...ok, more like idea theft...

I used to be part of a large mountain biking forum. As I am sure you have noticed, running a forum of any significant size takes time and money.

In order to accomodate this, the site owner implemented a donation system, which was roughly as follows:
For a period of one year after a donation made by a member (via Paypal), the members' status was promoted. They were ranked as a Donating member, their Private Messaging capacity was up'd, and you had extra options with the buy/sell forum, mainly the ability to highlight and bump your post to make it stand out.

Perhaps, as a way to help offset the cost of running and maintaining the site, a donating system should be looked into?

Mr_Diesel
06-11-2008, 05:09 PM
I thought about doing something like that... To be completely honest, I think the time/money is well spent as long as people can use it and benefit from it. But, I would be foolish to turn down any help from members that are willing. Dubnet has a paypal address:

admin@dubnetworks.net

Be sure to include your dubnet username with any donations. I will place a special recognition on the user rank, double the capacity of PMs and the gallery and whatever else you guys want :)