2011: Ads or fundraiser?

Arrrgh no more Nintendo fundraiser icons....:dammit: Make a Sega related one :nod:

Back on topic.

Ads wouldn't be bad as long as they are at the top of bottom and are static, as flash and animated adverts are annoying...

Still a few dollars donated here and there does add up quite quickly, maybe allow people who do donate to turn off the adverts.

 

I like the idea of a fundraiser, it shows who is the most loyal to the site, and I liked the badge idea, but how about if we have multiple badges for various systems, so if your a Playstation person, you get the playstation badge, Nintendo person, you get Nintendo, etc.

If its a fundraiser, I'll contribute!

Just curious, is this the cost for the software or the cost for hosting or both?

-Disjaukifa

 

It shouldn't matter. I'm sure ASSEMbler has a record of who donated and who didn't.

 

I also vote for fundraiser only; I don't think $2200 will be a problem going on previous years.

If we have to go down the ads route then the option for donators to turn them off would be a good idea :thumbsup:

I can also send a percentage of new year sales over as I did last year to help things along (20% again probably).

 

I don't think ads will work, everyone is using some kind of adblock these days ...
and this is such a great site it should be easy to collect that money!

fundraiser++;

 

you get money just for views of your page and displaying them.

 

That could be quite difficult to do as just for the badge you have to create a custom user class and put one by one all the users who contributed.

I can try and do something with SEGA and see how it comes out.

It is for everything, VB license, hosting/server maintenance, domain, etc.

 

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I'm all for a fundraiser.
Information sharing and mind-tickling discussion is priceless.
Let a fellow weird tinkerer guy know when and where the donation box is

 

yeah i've seen that on other forums. they did that for donators...it looks for specific usergroups iirc.

 

i donated to the last fundraiser...I could do it again i guess.

 

noticed that as well but wasn't going to say anything. How does one go about donating to the site?

 

Hey ASSEMbler, will you post a link to where to donate if you decided to go with a fundraiser?

-Disjaukifa

 

ill would prefer fundraiser

havent been active in 2010 so might be i missed the last years fundraiser but after i reactive my paypal account ill definifly put something in

 

I vote ads.

Yes they are annoying, but with the amount of traffic this site gets you'd never have money problems again.

 

Put it to vote? I'd go fund raiser, personally.

 

Yup I think you should add a poll to the thread and see how it comes out.

 

+1 for fund raiser