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Looking for feedback on this idea to pay for ICMAG to stay here....
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tenfeetofganja
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I have a jar full of 3000-7000 seeds. Theyre mostly mexican land race I extracted through bricks of stress. You want them too?
plantbeaners
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put the kryptoberrys up as buy it nows for twenty bucks a pack that should pay a bill or two, and that would make my chances of getting go up
While I am not very active on these boards, I have in the past been very involved in other online forums. Many of which I have seen transition from small forum only sites to expensive to run, all encompassing forums with galleries, chat etc. These are my opinions:
Sending in seeds for auctions isn't viable. How can you gaurantee that what you are bidding on from a member contribution is going to be what you get? I would like to think that everyone here is honest, but we know that isn't the case and can't be with the number of members. Their is already enough heated discussion about the lineage of seeds from REPUTABLE companies.
While I like the communal aspect of the idea, I believe that the security issues would simply be too great. I have too much to lose to send seeds across the pond just to be a member of a website.
This brings us to how can we bring in revenue to keep the site running? I don't have that big of an issue with the site being run for a modest profit, it does take work.
If seed sales through the various IC related venues are'nt enough to keep us up, what options does this lead us to?
Instead of making it a pay site, which diminishes our input and the free trade of information, I support the privitization of certain aspects of our site. For example, all users may have 10 pictures, but only Supporting Members would have access to chat, and their gallery space would be bigger. To be a Supporting Member, the fee would be nominal, say $20/yr or $50 for life.
Thats all folks.
Sending in seeds for auctions isn't viable. How can you gaurantee that what you are bidding on from a member contribution is going to be what you get? I would like to think that everyone here is honest, but we know that isn't the case and can't be with the number of members. Their is already enough heated discussion about the lineage of seeds from REPUTABLE companies.
While I like the communal aspect of the idea, I believe that the security issues would simply be too great. I have too much to lose to send seeds across the pond just to be a member of a website.
This brings us to how can we bring in revenue to keep the site running? I don't have that big of an issue with the site being run for a modest profit, it does take work.
If seed sales through the various IC related venues are'nt enough to keep us up, what options does this lead us to?
Instead of making it a pay site, which diminishes our input and the free trade of information, I support the privitization of certain aspects of our site. For example, all users may have 10 pictures, but only Supporting Members would have access to chat, and their gallery space would be bigger. To be a Supporting Member, the fee would be nominal, say $20/yr or $50 for life.
Thats all folks.
Surely a yr's supporting membership online should cost approx. the same as a yr's sub (12 monthly issues) to the printed IC magazine?
Just an idea, although submitted a tad late...
Peace
Just an idea, although submitted a tad late...
Peace
Just in case anyone missed the final decision: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=82663
G
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I think its a great idea, but I have a little bit of a twist on your idea. Since not everyone has worthwhile let alone known genetics to donate, I think members should have a few options as follows.
1. Donate a pack of seeds for auction ever so often which you of coarse would decide how often a pack needs to be donated in order to stay a paying member.
2. A monthly, 3 month, 6 month, 12 month paying memberships, with the prices being perhaps. $9.99, $24.99, $39.99, $64.99 maybe even a lifetime membership for lets say $250.00
I think there should still be limited access for free so people can get an idea of what the site has to offer before joining, also paying and/or seed donating members should be allowed to have an avatar thats more along the lines of 200 x 200 and 100, 150 kb memory wise.
1. Donate a pack of seeds for auction ever so often which you of coarse would decide how often a pack needs to be donated in order to stay a paying member.
2. A monthly, 3 month, 6 month, 12 month paying memberships, with the prices being perhaps. $9.99, $24.99, $39.99, $64.99 maybe even a lifetime membership for lets say $250.00
I think there should still be limited access for free so people can get an idea of what the site has to offer before joining, also paying and/or seed donating members should be allowed to have an avatar thats more along the lines of 200 x 200 and 100, 150 kb memory wise.
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REZDOG said:
Perhaps your first being an F1 Apollo 11 and/or Genius which I believe the original F1 Apollo 11 is Genius X Cinderella 99.
Correct me if Im wrong on the genetic make up of the real deal Apollo 11.
supahdupah
Member
as a poor stoner that does´nt grow and have no beans for the moment i would have to leave this great community!
yes as JJ says.......subscribing is not obligatory......it is just a matter of voluntary choice....
sunnyside said:
This is my favorite so far.
I have a few points of my own, pics are a valuable tool on this server even though I don`t have any lol.
JJScorpio is right, as usual, pictures take alot of bandwith, I would think setting a maximum sized gallery for new members and a full gallery and special forum priviledge for those who donate seeds or buy branded IC logo stuff or pay a donation.
The troll factor is why I like the segregated forum, it won`t penalize the broke memebers because they can still post some pics, just not a 50 pages gallery like some.
Also there are tons of useless repeat threads that each mod could file and filter to lighten the server load, I would be happy to participate at making that a reality.
I think the elemntal part of this project is A to fund this SAFE refuge GN and DG has provided us with, safe is sooooo important as we have seen with OG.
Second we can take it as an opportunity to weed out the useless multiple user name having trolls from the peeps here to grow, GROW being the operative word,
Peace
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I'd be happy to buy in.
http://www.oaklandnorml.org/cms/index.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=9&pos=1
I want to put this up for sale here. How do I do that?
I could pay per hit/view/purchase whatever.
Anyone help with that?
thanks
http://www.oaklandnorml.org/cms/index.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=9&pos=1
I want to put this up for sale here. How do I do that?
I could pay per hit/view/purchase whatever.
Anyone help with that?
thanks
G
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KharmaGirl said:
Yep! I missed it!
thanks for that KG
swampdank plans to donate just as soon as the funds are available from my financial aid check. how bout that? the u.s. govt donating to support as well. LOL! checks are issued in july, my donation will follow asap. i cant wait to have the logo under my name. good idea guys. just make sure ample time is allowed for everybody to round up the cash. im in. i love the idea of a serious forum for only supporters. i also think rez has a good idea with sbay priviledges going to supporters before the gen pub. back scratching works in all businesses.
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