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Re: sorry forgot to mention

Post by SarahtheBoring » Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:45 pm

xiao_tai wrote:im not sure if Animemusicvideos.org frequent the anime convention scene or not but have you thought about contacting some of the stalls
and asking them if they would be able to place a donation tin at there stall for you

if they seem hesitent why not offer a percentage of the takings or somthing.
No good. I offered this, and they said I can't do it well enough. If someone with more credibility offered, though, it might work out.

I think people would pay for custom titles in a heartbeat, if you stopped giving them out for free. Ten each, something like that? Easy.

Also, there seems to be two issues, though someone's probably said this already: reducing bandwidth use (1) and raising more money (2). #1 is complicated. #2 is limited because although most high-profile users are college-age with nuclear-powered computers that are this close to achieving sentience, the general download-leeching masses are often in high school and thus short on funds. That's probably not going to change.

...my best thought for 1 is still torrents. Seriously, we know full well what videos are going to cause a giant bandwidth suck. There's just not an elegant way to offload those onto torrenting.

totally out of ideas now.

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Re: sorry forgot to mention

Post by kitsunebeolnet » Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:15 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote:I think people would pay for custom titles in a heartbeat, if you stopped giving them out for free. Ten each, something like that? Easy..

Derobert - Remember my offer? ($5 for title replacement to eliminate the joke you played on me 2 years ago...)

I wasn't kidding. :!:

Of course, Sarah's trying to double the price now...
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Re: sorry forgot to mention

Post by Ileia » Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:57 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote:I think people would pay for custom titles in a heartbeat, if you stopped giving them out for free. Ten each, something like that? Easy.
GOOD idea! I know I would!
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Post by DarkNinja75 » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:16 pm

So it appears that using ads when downloading has become the idea settled upon? I donated and I'm seeing them. I'm not complaining since they're not pop-ups so I don't mind much, I'm just wondering if I'm supposed to see them.

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Post by Ileia » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:18 pm

DarkNinja75 wrote:So it appears that using ads when downloading has become the idea settled upon? I donated and I'm seeing them. I'm not complaining since they're not pop-ups so I don't mind much, I'm just wondering if I'm supposed to see them.
I had the same problem when they were first implemented. I don't anymore, are you still seeing them?
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Post by pinky75910 » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:18 pm

1.) I haven't read this entire post- but I thought I'd throw my 1 cents in...
2.) Before reading this, keep in mind I may be an idiot

However, I'm an idiot willing to send you a measely dollar. And if I'm here, there are probably others. I'd love to donate. I honestly got as far as trying the other day. But then I start reading all this fine print and so forth, I got confused about differences between pledging and donating... I was concerned about making sure payment successfully reached where it was going.

I don't want to be penalized for "pledging" and not "donating" if it is not properly recorded. I could send by paypal, or by mail, but where does it go from there? How do I know this'll work? I just wanna make sure it gets through from my end to your end properly. Maybe if it were simpler and less intimidating, donating could be easiar. Just my thought for the day.
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Post by DarkNinja75 » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:21 pm

aielI_Ileia wrote:
DarkNinja75 wrote:So it appears that using ads when downloading has become the idea settled upon? I donated and I'm seeing them. I'm not complaining since they're not pop-ups so I don't mind much, I'm just wondering if I'm supposed to see them.
I had the same problem when they were first implemented. I don't anymore, are you still seeing them?
Yep, I see them every time. At first it was just a banner sized ad, but now there's that accompanied with a larger ad below it.

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Post by Phade » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:42 pm

Hey,

pinky75910: If you use the auto-notification system (the PayPal link on the donation status page), your donation will be recorded automatically whenever it passes through PayPal. We also double-check all PayPal donations by hand every day or so. Donations sent my mail are recorded by me whenever they arrive. The only issue here is if you forget to include your site username with the donation, which means I can't match the donation with the member.

DarkNinja75 / aielI_Ileia: For donators, there is a new option on the "edit my profile" page that toggles ads on and off for you. If you have donated and still see the ads with this option off, please let me know via private message.

I hope this helps.

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Post by DarkNinja75 » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:47 pm

Phade wrote: DarkNinja75 / aielI_Ileia: For donators, there is a new option on the "edit my profile" page that toggles ads on and off for you. If you have donated and still see the ads with this option off, please let me know via private message.
Yep, that fixed it.

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Post by derobert » Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:46 am

Oh, btw, once the code is ready, changing forum titles will be a donator option. Details to be released when the code is ready.
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