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Membership
What about having an annual membership fee? Nothing huge, maybe even just a couple dollars annually. I cannot help but think that if people had to pay a nominal fee to create a user name, that may cut down on the trolls who are so willing to create a dozen user names after being banned. No charges for services like tickers or the like, just a small annual membership charge to pay via paypal or the like. Back in the day I used to donate via Paypal when it was an option and sort of saw it as a way to contribute to operating costs back when it was non-profit.
From just asking around, many of the members I have mentioned this to over the years were on board with it as long as it wasn't overly expensive. All of the requests on the suggestions forum have to be costing a fair amount of money to implement and I think that sometimes folks are forgetting this comes at a cost to the organization. And adding some of these other features not only costs money in development and implementation, but bandwidth and running speeds are commonly compromised which then spawns a new series of complaints as well.
At the very least, I think we owe our thanks to the folks that make it all possible. Sorry, it is just frustrating to see this wish list on here like a greedy child's Christmas list at times.
Perhaps the biggest change we would see is the decrease in troll behavior. If it costs a person a few bucks to join, they are less likely to keep coming back and creating new user names and this could also help to fund the cost to employ the moderators who work so hard to keep up on this crazy place. It must be a daunting task to try and monitor 300+ forums for problem posts, fights, and trolls. I think we all take for granted what MH has offer us all in terms of a place to call home, a place to take our shoes off, cozy up, and share our lives with others.
Just throwing it out there.
From just asking around, many of the members I have mentioned this to over the years were on board with it as long as it wasn't overly expensive. All of the requests on the suggestions forum have to be costing a fair amount of money to implement and I think that sometimes folks are forgetting this comes at a cost to the organization. And adding some of these other features not only costs money in development and implementation, but bandwidth and running speeds are commonly compromised which then spawns a new series of complaints as well.
At the very least, I think we owe our thanks to the folks that make it all possible. Sorry, it is just frustrating to see this wish list on here like a greedy child's Christmas list at times.
Perhaps the biggest change we would see is the decrease in troll behavior. If it costs a person a few bucks to join, they are less likely to keep coming back and creating new user names and this could also help to fund the cost to employ the moderators who work so hard to keep up on this crazy place. It must be a daunting task to try and monitor 300+ forums for problem posts, fights, and trolls. I think we all take for granted what MH has offer us all in terms of a place to call home, a place to take our shoes off, cozy up, and share our lives with others.
Just throwing it out there.
Bad idea. I would not have been able to afford this. Trolls should be dealt with by moderators. Others forums have trolls removed and banned.
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