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[Waser Lave]

You couldn't find a way to make it integrated with thread post count?

There are better ways to do it which would require giving us no extra work at all rather than having to permanently police it.

[Hydrogen]

You couldn't find a way to make it integrated with thread post count?

Who even cares about thread post count?

There are better ways to do it which would require giving us no extra work at all rather than having to permanently police it.

Agreed... I don't think we're here to police people . That's what the police are for .

[Yung]

Who even cares about thread post count?

The idea would be to lower the amount of multis being made to abuse the free trial. By actively participating in the forums it can help prevent any multis from being made simply for that perk. That was the premise behind my entire suggestion.

[Hydrogen]

I try to renew but Paypal doesn't accept the AE GC I'm using, soooo.... can you guys find a way to let me pay via a Gift Card? I have a TON of them left from Christmas and I don't really use them for anything other then Neo stuff =x

What kind of gift card? PayPal gift card?

[Hydrogen]

Nope, I have a few that I've used to purchase things on ebay etc and had no problems with. But if you use a giftcard to pay for something via Paypal it always declines them.
I have a variety of GC's - American Express, Visa etc.

Oh, hm. I'm not sure what kinds these are... but they seem to be backed by the popular credit card companies... are you trying to pass them off as a credit card?

[artificial]

So wait, what are members donating money towards? Subscriptions more then pay for server costs. You're asking members to donate their hard earned cash to further increase the linings of your pockets? Lord, have mercy. Cash grab after cash grab.

Someone just needs to release a decent public, open source autobuyer and be done with all of this.

[Hydrogen]

So wait, what are members donating money towards? Subscriptions more then pay for server costs. You're asking members to donate their hard earned cash to further increase the linings of your pockets? Lord, have mercy. Cash grab after cash grab.

Someone just needs to release a decent public, open source autobuyer and be done with all of this.

Some people on the boards have asked to donate instead of purchase advanced. They either were already past the advanced stage or just wanted to show their appreciation for the other portions of the site. Not everyone uses the autobuyer and not everyone needs advanced membership. The donation page is for people who still want to contribute.

I think it's pretty clear to everyone that we don't really need the donations. But if people still want to donate, then that's fine with us.

[artificial]

Some people on the boards have asked to donate instead of purchase advanced. They either were already past the advanced stage or just wanted to show their appreciation for the other portions of the site. Not everyone uses the autobuyer and not everyone needs advanced membership. The donation page is for people who still want to contribute.

I think it's pretty clear to everyone that we don't really need the donations. But if people still want to donate, then that's fine with us.

Why not have them donate it to a codex sponsored charity? I'd have no problem donating to a good cause. 'Donating' to the site administrators is ridiculous. I mean really, do you actually want your members to gift you their money?

[Waser Lave]

Why not have them donate it to a codex sponsored charity? I'd have no problem donating to a good cause. 'Donating' to the site administrators is ridiculous. I mean really, do you actually want your members to gift you their money?

They could already donate to any charity they want.

[ch33psh33p]

I donate by buying subscription. It gives me access if I want to utilize programs, and if I don't then whatever. It's only pennies really. Anyways you're Adv+ so you were also voted into a higher bracket than those of us who apparently have spent more time using the forums than yourself.

Besides, it's not like they are forcing anyone to buy. Abrosia is available to people who are regular members, the only real difference is there is a buying speed cap. If you don't want to spend your money here, then don't. Others are more than happy to spare a few bucks towards the upkeep of something we all enjoy.

He's not talking about buying subscriptions. He's saying that donating on top of buying subscriptions seems overkill to him.

[Waser Lave]

He's not talking about buying subscriptions. He's saying that donating on top of buying subscriptions seems overkill to him.

Nobody has to do that if they don't want to do so. The admins have only added that option because some people have apparently requested the wish to do it.

[artificial]

They could already donate to any charity they want.

So I'm the only one who believes providing a means for members to donate to the website administrators (on top of the money they make from subscriptions) is just taking it a bit too far? It just seems a tad selfish to me. Perhaps it's just my solid moral upbringing.

I donate by buying subscription. It gives me access if I want to utilize programs, and if I don't then whatever. It's only pennies really. Anyways you're Adv+ so you were also voted into a higher bracket than those of us who apparently have spent more time using the forums than yourself.

I'm not talking about advanced+. I have no issue with that. Codex offers a great service, and if they feel they want to monetise it, that's their prerogative.

[ch33psh33p]

Nobody has to do that if they don't want to do so. The admins have only added that option because some people have apparently requested the wish to do it.

Hey, I have no problem with it and I'm sure people that wish to donate have their own reasons, but I can also see where Artificial is coming from.

[Waser Lave]

So I'm the only one who believes providing a means for members to donate to the website administrators (on top of the money they make from subscriptions) is just taking it a bit too far? It just seems a tad selfish to me. Perhaps it's just my solid moral upbringing.

As Hydro already said, several people have requested the ability to donate. Regardless of whatever we or you think of it some people want to do that and we try to add functions that people want where we can. We're already looking into more ways to give extra back to the users and that's currently under discussion at staff level so you'll have to wait and see what happens with that.

[artificial]

Pfft, so it would be wrong of me at Christmas to donate to the Administrators and say "Here's to a good year guys, have a drink on me, you've done a great job?" Some people build friendships of a sorts here, so why can't we throw an extra $10 or so out there if we chose to. The option was requested by the community, so why complain if it's not directly hindering you in any way?

I understand that, and it's not my intention complain. I'm simply questioning the decision, which I'm sure I'm entitled too.

It's more the fact that I personally couldn't take people's money when there's more than enough already in the coffers, least of all if it's just going to go to something as superficial as supersizing my next meal at McDonalds. It just seems to me as though the site is continuing down the path of a concerted effort to squeeze every dollar they can out of its members. There's no doubt it's an ongoing trend, for which I'm mostly fine with, but it just seems to me like this is taking things a step too far.

[Waser Lave]

I understand that, and it's not my intention complain. I'm simply questioning the decision, which I'm sure I'm entitled too.

It's more the fact that I personally couldn't take people's money when there's more than enough already in the coffers, least of all if it's just going to go to something as superficial as supersizing my next meal at McDonalds. It just seems to me as though the site is continuing down the path of a concerted effort to squeeze every dollar they can out of its members. There's no doubt it's an ongoing trend, for which I'm mostly fine with, but it just seems to me like this is taking things a step too far.

Like most of the features we have it was only added due to demand for such a feature. As for your suggestion that the admins are trying to 'squeeze every dollar they can', if that was their intention we wouldn't have revoked the automatic subscription renewal which was enabled when the new subscription store was added. If somebody requests a function we try to add it where we can and if it's useful. A recent example would be the new trader system, people requested a new system so the admins actually paid for a pre-built one rather than us spending more time writing a new one from scratch.

[grapes]

btw, talking about the new trader system, would it be bought back under user avatars, Waser?

[Waser Lave]

btw, talking about the new trader system, would it be bought back under user avatars, Waser?

The colours you mean? I think we were considering just changing it so it uses the current 'Trader Score: X' text but with the new scores because most people seemed to not like the colours.

[grapes]

But those colours would match the new colourful userbars too. I suggest putting this to vote.

[Waser Lave]

I suggest putting this to vote.

You'll have to ask the admins about that. I don't think a decision has been made either way yet.

[grapes]

Just PMed Pyro.

[Noitidart]

So I'm the only one who believes providing a means for members to donate to the website administrators (on top of the money they make from subscriptions) is just taking it a bit too far? It just seems a tad selfish to me. Perhaps it's just my solid moral upbringing.

Xth man I don't know why you think this money is going to the admins I haven't made a single penny off codex for the years I was here. In fact I did the opposite and poured in a ton of work that kept getting wiped. The money was used for hosting and paying programmers and buying gifts for prizes etc.

[Brennon]

We have now introduction coupons to the site store. These coupons can reduce the price of the advanced subscriptions (or if we add real items at a later date, those as-well).

Real Items? Any insight on what that might be?

[Elindoril]

Real Items? Any insight on what that might be?

We discussed a couple ideas over here.

[Bummer]

oh. I didn't see this welcome15 code before purchasing my 3 month advance membership last night