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Post by Celeste on Dec 15, 2016 14:17:55 GMT -5
Thanks for the concern and comments, creativechaos. We already get the lower rate, CC, so in that respect, we are in good shape. Also, the number of volunteers helping has increased. Our ad-free looks like it will be paid for the foreseeable future. As for setting up a fund to pay for ad-free, I'm not sure how we could create a community pool and withdraw money from that to pay ProBoards on a monthly basis. AddonChat can accept PayPal, so when we have fund drives for our chat room, the funds go directly to our SOS PayPal account, then onto them. ProBoards can't accept PayPal, so for ad-free the funds would go into an SOS PayPal account. The necessary credits would then be sent to one of our admins. That admin would use their own credit card to pay for the ad-free. It would require constant attention from the moderators to shuffle credits from the SOS account to a personal account to use their credit card to pay ProBoards. There would need to be SOMEBODY in charge of constantly funneling money and paying ProBoards via credit card. Personally, it is a complication I'd rather not have, but others may feel differently. If you've got suggestions, go right ahead and make them here (or by PM).  |
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Post by creativechaos on Dec 15, 2016 15:10:23 GMT -5
Thanks for answering, Celeste. So let me be sure I understand how to donate to which fund. Donating to AddOn Chat seems pretty straightforward: Just donate directly to sos PayPal account. Do I have that right? Is there a link for the paypal to donate for the AddOn Chat, or would you walk us through or direct us to the link on how to do that? To keep us ad-free, we simply donate to the link already provided at the bottom of every page and choose our option. This link goes directly to Proboards. The link at the bottom leads to a shopping cart: Then you pick your donation option. www.proboards.com/store/add_cart/ad_free/50000/takeonestepatatime.proboards.com/129Here is the thread in the Community Information section on the various ways to contribute to Ad-Free: takeonestepatatime.proboards.com/thread/19984/ad-free-informationWe have over 4,000 members. Even a one-time donation of as low as $8 for one block makes a humongous difference. (it takes @4 "blocks" per month at our level of page views, which could increase as our membership grows). For example, an $8 one-time payment, x 4000 members = $32,000! If we go with the $24 a month to keep Ad-Free going, we are talking about a mere $288 per year at the level we are now. We can DO this! Even poor people like myself can come up with 8 bucks. or even just a $1 contribution to contribute to AddOnChat. The other piece is to keep Chat Challenge alive by using it. Celeste and Greg are looking into getting us a java-free chat platform so more of can use it to get our work done and support others in this way - so paypal donations to this site for AddOn Chat will give us this option and the funding to do it! Re suggestions: my only suggestion would to be to make a new thread or re-title an existing thread and consolidate the info into a thread we can all easily find and understand, such as "how can members contribute for Ad-Free and Add0nChat?" Or whatever thread title seems to say it best. Then add that thread to favorite threads or the Community Information section. What do you think? Big shout-out to sidestep and outfromundah for alerting us to what's happening, and huge thanks to Celeste and messymimi for keeping us financially afloat for all this time, asking for nothing. |
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Post by Celeste on Dec 15, 2016 23:19:43 GMT -5
Currently, we've got more payments for ad-free for each month than we use, creativechaos . Lets allow this subject to rest until we have reason to ask for more funding, okay? Thanks for thinking of us, though.  |
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