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Duluth

@Nepia said in Pay to not see ads:

one off or monthly payment

Probably monthly

@Kirwan is just looking at the options now

I'm thinking we'll just turn the ads off completely. If people are willing to donate - great. If not, that's cool too

Does anyone think this is a bad idea?

Crucial

@Duluth said in Pay to not see ads:

@Nepia said in Pay to not see ads:

one off or monthly payment

Probably monthly

@Kirwan is just looking at the options now

I'm thinking we'll just turn the ads off completely. If people are willing to donate - great. If not, that's cool too

Does anyone think this is a bad idea?

Nope.

Maybe posters could make their side bets result in a donation e.g. loser donates 20. Would be better than eating hats or Beiber avatars

Crucial

Hang on, just realised that @NTA could donate all his power wall savings as recompense for boring us about it for years!

gt12

I'm in. Those descending ads on my phone drive me nuts.

It's easier to do it once a year, as we used to on PayPal, but monthly is fine too.

sparky

How about something like a limit on the number of posts you can make a day unless you are a subscriber?

The Fern would still be free to read.
Irregular users could still post up to two posts a day for free on the Sports Forum
Post more often than that or on the Off Topic Forum or the Politics Forum you'd have to pay $2 a month or $20 a year.

Assuming costs are kept as low as now, then that would probably remove the need for ads.

voodoo

@Kirwan said in Pay to not see ads:

@JC said in Pay to not see ads:

@Kirwan said in Pay to not see ads:

Yeah, we had it in the old software. With the changes Duluth has been making we have more options again on how to handle that.

To be honest, I'd like some ideas from people because the google ad reviews are getting painful.

We could chuck up a Patreon and people that donate/subscribe there can be added to a group that no longer sees adds?

As we have low costs, it wouldn't take much to cover those entirely and just remove the ads altogether. And if we go over we can put that into better hardware/memory to improve performance or add features.

What are people's thoughts?

My thoughts are:

I'm in, where do I send the pingers?

If I pay extra can you give @jegga a really disappointing avatar and remove his ability to edit it. Or maybe change his username to GFYs

But seriously, it's a great idea. And we should also have t shirts again.

Still working out if we want to do this or not, also interested in hearing from people who think it's a bad idea and why they think that.

T-shirts is a blast from the past, I think Bart's old business used to make those? Getting old, can't remember. "Bring Back the Biff"

Think I still have a TSG "Dingo stole my world cup" one somewhere!

I'm in for a $ contribution to kill the ads.

Kirwan

Ok, I have the basic page in place. I will double check I've not screwed anything up and trial it later this evening.

In the meantime, Duluth is turning off the ads.

Thanks for the feedback.

Duluth

Ads should be gone now

nzzp

@Duluth @Kirwan you boys are too fast for government work. Where was the working group?

Great work, Keen to donate let me know where and when. Personally I'm happy for donors to be anonymous... Preference is not to differentiate people

Smudge

I suggest we all put cash in a pot then we give it to @Hooroo so he can triple it on one of his horses.

More realistically, I'm happy to chip in with some cash - be it Patreon or whatever.

Kirwan

@nzzp said in Pay to not see ads:

@Duluth @Kirwan you boys are too fast for government work. Where was the working group?

Great work, Keen to donate let me know where and when. Personally I'm happy for donors to be anonymous... Preference is not to differentiate people

Yes, will make sure thats enabled. That's the sort of thing I'm confirming in a few hours.

This is more of a pitch in if you can sort of deal, not required at all.

dogmeat

@Duluth does this mean we can fuckin swear again?

mariner4life

normally i get nudes for my patreon...

Crucial

@sparky said in Pay to not see ads:

How about something like a limit on the number of posts you can make a day unless you are a subscriber?

The Fern would still be free to read.

Irregular users could still post up to two posts a day for free on the Sports Forum

Post more often than that or on the Off Topic Forum or the Politics Forum you'd have to pay $2 a month or $20 a year.

Assuming costs are kept as low as now, then that would probably remove the need for ads.

Wouldn’t charging to post on the Politics board be a clampdown on free speech?

Magpie_in_aus

@Crucial said in Pay to not see ads:

@Duluth said in Pay to not see ads:

@Nepia said in Pay to not see ads:

one off or monthly payment

Probably monthly

@Kirwan is just looking at the options now

I'm thinking we'll just turn the ads off completely. If people are willing to donate - great. If not, that's cool too

Does anyone think this is a bad idea?

Nope.

Maybe posters could make their side bets result in a donation e.g. loser donates 20. Would be better than eating hats or Beiber a vat

Pussy

Duluth

@dogmeat said in Pay to not see ads:

does this mean we can fuckin swear again?

Sure.. we'll still keep it relatively clean though.

Lots of people browse at work. Getting the site blocked by a work filter would be annoying

Duluth

@mariner4life said in Pay to not see ads:

normally i get nudes for my patreon...

Go for it @Kirwan

mariner4life

@Duluth said in Pay to not see ads:

@mariner4life said in Pay to not see ads:

normally i get nudes for my patreon...

Go for it @Kirwan

and put some effort in.

dogmeat

@Duluth only asking for a friend.....

I actually liked the idea of extending the fluffybunny / piston wristed gibbon concept if its do-able.

antipodean

Like secret santa, auction off the ability to moderate another's posts...

The Silver Fern

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