Thread: Member Donations for Site Maintenance & Hosting Costs

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I think Donation is a greqt idea... Not for any other reason than I know I waste money in a number of ways and if I knew it were possible to throw some dough here all it would take is less waste on my part to get her done.

Wonder if there is a workaround... There may be issues and difficulty in putting SRP as the primary recipient but what about the people or institutions SRP must pay? They certainly wouldn't care from who/where the money came from. Would it be possible to just link whatever account directly to them with a cap?

Say, for instance that there is $1400 that need to be paid to Awesome Website Maintenance (.com) yearly... Link said account directly to them and cap the amount at $1400... Once that amount is reached it cycles off until the next Due Date. No in-between handling of funds and thus no oversight and I doubt any ,com gives a rip from who or where they get paid. I use Namecheap for my site/domain and know I can put in any valid CC# to pay whenever the bill is due. Same idea may be able to be employed to fund a Gift Card and, once full, that card is used to pay the bill... Though that would require some oversight but, obviously, someone is paying the bills currently so may not be much of a change. ??

Seems like every webste I've really enjoyed (Bladeforums back in the 90's, iirc, went through very similar stuff...) has gone through something like this. The willingness to support here at SRP is great and every time I see this topic come up there are overwhelmingly positively supporting posts... I remember a LOT more conflict and heated debate at other places so we have a huge leg up on that already.

Quite obviously we have some very proud, driven and honorable folks driving the bus here at SRP and that is an incredibly positive thing.

Well, there is a lot of stuff involved in this. Just sending money seems to be the easy part. Tracking the funds, tracking it all, dicieding in the use of it, etc. Sounds like a headache to me. To make it a little simpler, maybe, a donate button, a contributor badge for donating and the funds go to the give-away items. But then the funds need tracked and spent right and checked by more than one person. Now were back to PITA again! Wow, this sounds like a lot of work for somebody or somebodys. If it happens id be more than happy the contribute but if it dont, i surely inderstand why!
Merry Christmas all.

I actually don't like the idea of a "contributor badge." I would hope that we wouldn't need to rely on peer pressure to get this to work.

Originally Posted by Utopian

I actually don't like the idea of a "contributor badge." I would hope that we wouldn't need to rely on peer pressure to get this to work.

I see what you mean about the badge. Hadn't thought of it that way. I withdraw my request of a badge! Wouldn't want people to think the needed to do this. :

Many sites have contributor badges. Many even tier the badges, the more you contribute the badge changes to show that like bronze level and silver level and gold level.