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Forum Sales, Site Supporter Tags and how to fund MK....
brettypeeps:
The cash and beer donations every year has worked well.
I have always paid my SST and tried to support the site and will continue to do so.
:radbmxsmilie: rules.
There will be the free loaders that is for certain. You get them throughout life. There is little we can do about that. fistblump
Right lets get the Tshirt design contest open and get the order flowing in for them and Decals :4_17_5:
rodriguez:
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The forum could become free using advertising, they've become so advanced the ads hardly interfere with the enjoyment of the forums, most forums have gone down this route now because of pressure from other platforms that are free to use and you don't have to muck about with subs and the associated administration.
Just food for thought long live the forum and MK :daumenhoch:
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You've put this suggestion forward several times now Paul
if you want the forum to live long, then shifting the platform across to a board that has adverts on will (apart from looking crap in MY opinion) mean that we risk losing loads of members. By far the biggest kick in the bollocks the forum ever got was the crash which caused everyone to have to re-register again. If we combine the increased admin with a 'new' site full of ads then that potentially makes the place less attractive for many people, well myself anyway.
I understand that you haven't been to MK (fine) also note that you don't have a SST (fine too, you're still very welcome to post here). No-one's asking for your money, but I don't understand why you're so passionate about trying to separate the forum from its biggest annual event. My only guess is because you haven't been to MK, then you would see how MK represents everything that's great about this community - not just on the internets but in real life. I strongly recommend that now the dates have been posted that you do whatever you can to attend, like I said before I can guarantee you a very warm welcome and a weekend seeing the best bikes this community has to offer :daumenhoch:
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Well you asked for suggestions and I give a couple.
You've raised the point I don't have an SST again, if I pay for an SST and give the same opinion will you be any less annoyed, I doubt it. I might've chosen not to have one this year but I dare say I've still paid a fair few more than you and a few of the other people who are so keen to criticise my point of view.
We'll have to agree to differ about how forums look that use advertising but I do take your point about the negative impact a forum going down can have.
For me the forum is more important than MK, ultimately I'd like to see a way that both the forum and the MK event can survive and prosper.
If I do make MK you can be sure I'll have paid my SST.
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You're in Ireland aren't you Paul??
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Northern Ireland Dan :daumenhoch:
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Thought so, so quite unlikely you're going to make the trip to MK, so maybe it's resentment that your £10 would go to help pay for an event you're probably not going to attend??
That's what it looks like?
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I've paid my SST since being on here and I've never been to MK due to the fact my wife always books our holiday the same time MK is on. So I disagree with members not paying because they never intend to go.
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Good for you :daumenhoch:
More to it than not intending or being able to go which I outlined in my reply to Dan last week, you could have quoted that too. :daumenhoch:
Jono:
--- Quote from: griff on February 19, 2016, 05:10 PM ---that still doesn't get past the challenge of how to match real people to usernames though (@ Jono)
if we had to police that before handing out wristbands then we'd create a bottleneck trying to get online or something to verify people.
Bit more info - people make a big fuss about the drinks & pig roast but the costs of these are just one part of putting on the whole shebang. Ramps, Bogs, Skips, Marquees etc are much less visible but still very costly and need to be available on Saturday AND Sunday (unlike the D&D/Food which just benefits people on Saturday night)
Looking at the whole picture, this is why I would recommend having anyone (tag holder or not) pay for a wristband on the day so they can physically show that they have made a contribution on the day to the rad pot. It's no different from putting something in the collection jar but would at least put a stop to any potential scrotes lying about having made a donation. No doubt there would be a few disgruntled tag owners complaining about 'paying twice' but there has to be a cut off point somewhere if you're thinking of making changes to the funding model & we have to cover far more than just beers and food on one day. We could do nothing at all, leave it as is and have people moan about 'freeloaders' instead.
Whatever happens, however much money ends up in the pot - it all comes back to the :radbmxsmilie: community anyway. Just to restate - these are just my personal opinions, not speaking on behalf of the site owners/mods but trying to be as open/transparent as possible & contribute to the debate.
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Get what you say about who's who but they gotta know enough they won't have a list of SST and usernames as such you'd have to be some serious cheap bastard to try n pass yourself off for someone else hoping no one knows them personally in order to save a tenner, I can't see that being an issue John and who's gunna risk the public humiliation of trying it
Jono:
Back to the question in hand, I think I stand corrected , I didn't think allowing sales on the FB page would generate more on the forum, I was wrong! ...... I'm on here more now as the FB page is now full of sales and what's it worth and is now shit!!! Wonder how many sellers have come on here in last fortnight and joined
griff:
--- Quote from: Jono on February 22, 2016, 09:07 AM ---Back to the question in hand, I think I stand corrected , I didn't think allowing sales on the FB page would generate more on the forum, I was wrong! ...... I'm on here more now as the FB page is now full of sales and is now shit!!! Wonder how many sellers have come on here in last fortnight and joined
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well since you're on here more now hopefully you can find something a bit more positive to say :teef:
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