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jd
Joined: 01 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject: How about a membership fee? |
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Now here's something I thought about for awhile...
Charging a one time membership fee.Something like $0.50 to $1.00...
This would help keep the site alive I'm sure, and plus,make everyone here a little more secure about who's registering on here(spammer's).
I know I don't own the site, but I would love it if everyone would help me keep it going ,if I owned one simular.
I'm willing to put my $ in it .
Let's have a vote 
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sammyc
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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Have you ever heard of Vicca
*that was my sales pitch* 
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Cpuswe
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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| sammyc wrote: | | Have you ever heard of Vicca |
Yepp, a secret cult, in a hidden forum somewhere where the members melt down early Intel engineering samples and sacrifices them to the all mighty cpu god.
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Mixeur
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Cpuswe
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: How about a membership fee? |
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| GlinGlin wrote: | Now here's something I thought about for awhile...
Charging a one time membership fee.Something like $0.50 to $1.00...
This would help keep the site alive I'm sure, and plus,make everyone here a little more secure about who's registering on here(spammer's).
I know I don't own the site, but I would love it if everyone would help me keep it going ,if I owned one simular.
I'm willing to put my $ in it .
Let's have a vote
Glin |
If gshv asks for $ help, shure. I get a lot from this forum, but as long as no one complains its better not to make the forum a money issue. And is there REALLY a problem with the spammers? A couple of threads a week (+ those removed by mods) does not bother me. And as Mixeur said, closing the forum to a member only site will certainly not help this hobby grow.
/T
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slava
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Stupid poll. Of course not.
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debs3759
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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I say no. I'm sure Genna wouldn't say no to any donations, but as said by others, it would put some people off if there was a compulsory payment, however small. Plus if a spammer pays, would it be so easy to delete their account?
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gshv
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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I'm against any membership fees, and donations too. The site pays for itself and the forum, I don't even need to put any ads in the forum. I'd like to keep the forum free and ad-free as long as possible.
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sammyc
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| gshv wrote: | I'm against any membership fees, and donations too. The site pays for itself and the forum, I don't even need to put any ads in the forum. I'd like to keep the forum free and ad-free as long as possible.
Gennadiy |
here here genna!!! 
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metalmaker
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Gennadiy bought a few chips from me in the sale/trade forum. I gave him a small discount on the deal out of appreciation for the CPU-World site. I was surprised to hear I was the first one to ever do this. 
Gennadiy is specifically not asking for donations. I hope everyone here says "thankyou" for CPU-World every once in a while when you deal with him.
MM
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