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Post by Admin on Aug 10, 2017 7:37:36 GMT -5
What say you? If there is enough interest in doing this, we can increase the storage space and allow for more attachments.
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Post by bigbarney on Aug 10, 2017 10:40:29 GMT -5
I am fairly open minded about this.
How would the monthly fee be collected?
Would you expect all members to set up a direct debit from their bank?
I am in the UK so exchange rates would affect me.
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Post by jholland1964 on Aug 10, 2017 11:29:17 GMT -5
I am fairly open minded about this. How would the monthly fee be collected? Would you expect all members to set up a direct debit from their bank? I am in the UK so exchange rates would affect me. This certainly is Not something that can be decided if only 10 or 12 people respond and vote and voting is necessary. All of this would have to be worked out if the majority of members agreed. At the present time the membership sits at 98, so 50 people would have to approve to have a simple majority. There would have to be an amount money determined, a way of collection approved, some body appointed to be in charge of this to be sure that members due in fact pay because payment would be required from NWT to Proboards. Many other things need to be considered too. Would those electing not to take a paid membership then be removed from membership or could they remain but with limited benefits? What if a person elected to pay but then decide to leave, would he/she get a refund? This will definitely Not be a simple decision or something easy to accomplish either. And is the extra space even needed? If persons limit their attachments and the size to those truly needed then the space we have is likely be enough. |
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Post by bigbarney on Aug 10, 2017 12:05:09 GMT -5
I am fairly open minded about this. How would the monthly fee be collected? Would you expect all members to set up a direct debit from their bank? I am in the UK so exchange rates would affect me. This certainly is Not something that can be decided if only 10 or 12 people respond and vote and voting is necessary. All of this would have to be worked out if the majority of members agreed. At the present time the membership sits at 98, so 50 people would have to approve to have a simple majority. There would have to be an amount money determined, a way of collection approved, some body appointed to be in charge of this to be sure that members due in fact pay because payment would be required from NWT to Proboards. Many other things need to be considered too. Would those electing not to take a paid membership then be removed from membership or could they remain but with limited benefits? What if a person elected to pay but then decide to leave, would he/she get a refund? This will definitely Not be a simple decision or something easy to accomplish either. And is the extra space even needed? If persons limit their attachments and the size to those truly needed then the space we have is likely be enough. I agree with this 100% As far as posting photos is concerned, most of my photos these days are stored in Google Photos, so I can post a link instead of the actual photo. For example goo.gl/photos/yTMMkTLhr61EPTUj9 |
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Post by jholland1964 on Aug 10, 2017 12:21:19 GMT -5
This certainly is Not something that can be decided if only 10 or 12 people respond and vote and voting is necessary. All of this would have to be worked out if the majority of members agreed. At the present time the membership sits at 98, so 50 people would have to approve to have a simple majority. There would have to be an amount money determined, a way of collection approved, some body appointed to be in charge of this to be sure that members due in fact pay because payment would be required from NWT to Proboards. Many other things need to be considered too. Would those electing not to take a paid membership then be removed from membership or could they remain but with limited benefits? What if a person elected to pay but then decide to leave, would he/she get a refund? This will definitely Not be a simple decision or something easy to accomplish either. And is the extra space even needed? If persons limit their attachments and the size to those truly needed then the space we have is likely be enough. I agree with this 100% As far as posting photos is concerned, most of my photos these days are stored in Google Photos, so I can post a link instead of the actual photo. For example goo.gl/photos/yTMMkTLhr61EPTUj9She is so cute! Eve has suggest using tinypic to embed the pictures in the thread that way the picture can be posted but hosted elsewhere. This would apply only to members personal pictures of course, not the ones noted by Crash in his Attachments thread: |
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Post by bigbarney on Aug 10, 2017 12:36:01 GMT -5
I used Photobucket for years to host pictures but they now want paid to host pictures.
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Post by jholland1964 on Aug 10, 2017 12:47:05 GMT -5
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Post by wuggy23 on Aug 10, 2017 16:13:24 GMT -5
I'm more than happy to contribute whatever is asked, just provide a payment method and I'll chip in an annual contribution. Having said that I would think such payments should be optional. Not everyone would want to make such a contribution but I don't think we should have any 2 tier membership arrangements. Whether a member contributes or not should make no difference.
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Post by Everton on Aug 10, 2017 16:37:36 GMT -5
I beLong to a photo site where there is a charge of $3 (US) per month. The payment is through PayPal and is optional.. those who contribute get extra uploading rights ie 2 images daily as opposed to one.
As this is not a photo site I don't believe it is really necessary but maybe it could prove to be necessary. I also don't like the concept of a two tier membership but also dont like the idea of a few subsidising the whole. The idea of contributions is to allow extra space for images so theoretically it should be those posting the images paying for them. Maybe after a trial period it could be looked at again when a better idea of how the free allocated space is working out.
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Post by jholland1964 on Aug 10, 2017 16:51:05 GMT -5
I beLong to a photo site where there is a charge of $3 (US) per month. The payment is through PayPal and is optional.. those who contribute get extra uploading rights ie 2 images daily as opposed to one. As this is not a photo site I don't believe it is really necessary but maybe it could prove to be necessary. I also don't like the concept of a two tier membership but also dont like the idea of a few subsidising the whole. The idea of contributions is to allow extra space for images so theoretically it should be those posting the images paying for them. Maybe after a trial period it could be looked at again when a better idea of how the free allocated space is working out. Unless a majority of members, 50 as of now, vote to do this then I do not agree with it at all. All for the sake of an additional amount of space so people can post tons of pictures is just not worth it to me. As you said, this isn't a Photo site it is a computer site. I sure wouldn't want to be the guy in charge of making sure everybody makes their monthly payment either. Just my opinion of course. |
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Post by Admin on Aug 10, 2017 20:54:52 GMT -5
And since the one who would need to keep track of who paid and what not would be me, I would be the bad guy that everyone hated to hear from. LOL
Since NWT is not an entity in and of itself, payments would need to go to an individual and I would not want to put anyone in the position of potentially being accused of keeping the money submitted. Not saying anyone here would do that, but who is to say someone down the road with less than honorable (or honourable if you will) intentions wouldn't do such a thing...
After pondering over this all day, I think the best alternative is to stay with what we have and monitor the attachments. When the time comes to address space issues, the oldest attachments are the first to go.
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Post by bigbarney on Aug 10, 2017 23:10:22 GMT -5
Agreed.
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Post by cricketm on Aug 10, 2017 23:46:18 GMT -5
I agree with JHolland1964's comment! It is a Computer Site not a Photo Site....I really don't need another Photo Storage Site....Only my opinion...
"Unless a majority of members, 50 as of now, vote to do this then I do not agree with it at all. All for the sake of an additional amount of space so people can post tons of pictures is just not worth it to me. As you said, this isn't a Photo site it is a computer site. I sure wouldn't want to be the guy in charge of making sure everybody makes their monthly payment either.
Just my opinion of course." JHolland1964
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Post by Everton on Aug 11, 2017 1:21:46 GMT -5
And since the one who would need to keep track of who paid and what not would be me, I would be the bad guy that everyone hated to hear from. LOL Since NWT is not an entity in and of itself, payments would need to go to an individual and I would not want to put anyone in the position of potentially being accused of keeping the money submitted. Not saying anyone here would do that, but who is to say someone down the road with less than honorable (or honourable if you will) intentions wouldn't do such a thing... After pondering over this all day, I think the best alternative is to stay with what we have and monitor the attachments. When the time comes to address space issues, the oldest attachments are the first to go. Agreed 100% |
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Post by jholland1964 on Aug 11, 2017 13:11:02 GMT -5
After pondering over this all day, I think the best alternative is to stay with what we have and monitor the attachments. When the time comes to address space issues, the oldest attachments are the first to go. I think this is the best way to handle this. We have a forum for free and our space is limited because of that. We will not know for awhile how we will need to limit the amount of attached photographs and or print screens. My feeling is that we limit pictures to those personal photographs in Digital Imaging, resized of course to adhere to size constraints. Those should be personal pictures for others to enjoy and pictures needing editing assistance, just like that section was at WS. Print screens that are necessary to give instructions on tool use or so members can show exactly what they are seeing on their computers when asking for help. Those print screens especially are generally small anyway and shouldn't cause problems. Other than those I think other types should not be posted here, there are other forums for various things that would not apply at all to asking for help about a computer or other device. Also strictly following ProBoards rules concerning posting of images found off the internet, and/or copyrighted images, not being permitted at all will certainly help keep our storage usage under control. Here is the actual policy directly from ProBoards; We will be keeping a very strict eye on this and those images in violation will be removed. |
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Post by wizardlord on Aug 14, 2017 20:24:13 GMT -5
I think the monthly fee can be thought about but its a big disadvantage to start out with it when the forum is much smaller because attracting members will be much more difficult. Once you have more users, then it is easier to allow for donations and maybe implementing rewards to encourage donations or subscriptions of sorts.
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Post by jholland1964 on Aug 14, 2017 21:13:14 GMT -5
After pondering over this all day, I think the best alternative is to stay with what we have and monitor the attachments. When the time comes to address space issues, the oldest attachments are the first to go. I think the monthly fee can be thought about but its a big disadvantage to start out with it when the forum is much smaller because attracting members will be much more difficult. Once you have more users, then it is easier to allow for donations and maybe implementing rewards to encourage donations or subscriptions of sorts. If you note the quoted post above, this issue has been decided and there will be no monthly fees to use this forum. When space issues occur the oldest attachments will be removed. |
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