Please help, PHP programming needed for this forum

[ursula]

I love all of this nonsense trying to find a way to avoid the death-defying dangers of registration here!
Complications piled on top of complications... absurd....
But, nothing beats those of you geniuses who think that posting your e-mail addresses is somehow 'safe' and registering is not.
Brilliant!

And.... a good one, really.... Contributions to support Gnutella Forums.... Wonderful idea! Of course, none of you would mind establishing an automatic payment system with your banks or ************ companies to guarantee payment of the 'beloved contribution' EVERY month, right?

Get real, gang. It will help when you're older.

[bobomon]

I find the value of this forum 1000 times greater than the amount I am paying for it's use - I do think that flashing red banner ad sucks though. . .

[ursula]

Hey, bobomon, imagine how many times the mods see it!!!!!!
But, it isn't forever, right?

Right?... Please tell me yes!

[tshdos]

The donation system doesn't work unless you have user loyalty.

I think you may be surprised

And.... a good one, really.... Contributions to support Gnutella Forums.... Wonderful idea! Of course, none of you would mind establishing an automatic payment system with your banks or ************ companies to guarantee payment of the 'beloved contribution' EVERY month, right?

Thanks for the description of a paid membership system which has absolutely nothing to do with the original suggestion.

The suggestion was to setup a way so that users could donate to the forum IF they wanted to. They would receive no special treatment or anything. No automatic payments (unless the user set that up themselves). This would obviously have to be done through some type of third party service of which there are many 'good' ones available. If this comes up being equal to the amount gained by banners, maybe CycloCide can drop the banners (on this site).

It couldn't hurt to try it at least. What would be lost... you keep the banners up until you see if it works. If it does great you drop the banners until contributions don't cover the costs anymore. If it doesn't work, nothing lost just keep the banners in place.

Ursula, would you contribute ?

Originally posted by ursula
And.... a good one, really.... Contributions to support Gnutella Forums.... Wonderful idea!

Get real, gang. It will help when you're older.

It is a good idea, the only problem is those "older" people here are technically challenged and thus can't figure out how to copy / paste in a simple pay pal button. Too bad.
All us "younger" people know how, and we even see the potential of this, but "old foagies" that think they are older and wiser are set in their ways. Oh well. Alzheimers is also very common in seniors.
Younger people are superior, faster and better, so you keep your "I'm older" attitude, it doesn't impress me and as a "super mod" here you shouldn't be insulting us with your power trip.

[Gratis]

Stay unregistered if you want but please just write something in the nickname box.

[cultiv8r]

banners fine. read again: bad are popups, blinking banners, registration force

I don't know of anyone that likes the blinking or "earthquake" banners or the popups. But there's not a lot CC can do about them.

He signed up for an advertisement provider, who in turn will provide him with the ads for this site.

He can probably restrict a certain number of ads, but not all of them. Plus, if he doesn't meet a certain "quota" set by the advertising provider, he may loose his account (some set limits such as a minimum of 50,000 ads per month displayed, or 50,000 unique viewers a month, etc, etc.).

If he looses that, he'll have to pay all of the fees associated with this site through his own finances; which may lead to the demise of this site if he can't cover it all.

Please consider that everything costs money. Some people even pay for the sun (solar electricity).

[backmann]

Originally posted by Unregistered
It is a good idea, the only problem is those "older" people here are technically challenged and thus can't figure out how to copy / paste in a simple pay pal button. Too bad.
All us "younger" people know how, and we even see the potential of this, but "old foagies" that think they are older and wiser are set in their ways. Oh well. Alzheimers is also very common in seniors.
Younger people are superior, faster and better, so you keep your "I'm older" attitude, it doesn't impress me and as a "super mod" here you shouldn't be insulting us with your power trip.

Old foagies?????

Hey, last Tuesday was my birthday. I'm 17 now, and a "super mod". No-one judges anyone here by his/her age. I don't consider myself better or worse than anyone for just a simple number.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

Originally posted by cultiv8r
I don't know of anyone that likes the blinking or "earthquake" banners or the popups. But there's not a lot CC can do about them.

Then he needs to accept that users do something against.

simple solution against blinking banners and popups is to block them with webwasher or similar tool. I wouldn't do if webmaster take care about there visitors. But bombarding them with popups and blinking animated banners is a sign "I don't care and please block my banners".

[efield]

Flashing banner only flashes once in IE 5/Mac when you go to Prefs, Web Content, uncheck 'Allow Looping' under 'Animate GIFs'. This affects all sites but you still see the animation the first time. The ad still loads so you aren't cutting short.