Quote Originally Posted by thebigspendur View Post
I don't like this special badge identifying who gave what and special areas and perks for contributers because that just makes second class citizens out of the others.

I also think if any site starts accepting funds from members that essentially changes things and the site has a responsibility to let the contributers know how those funds are being spent.
Just my 2 cents.
I agree on not making a difference in what people can access. Fwiw they have this over at martialtalk, but it's pretty much dead or dormant.
And we would keep an open ledger. This is not going to be a Lynn and Don vacation plan. Unless they cut me in of course Not.

Quote Originally Posted by randydance062449 View Post
What I would really like to see is that backups are performed religiously.
A great deal of information/knowledge has been accumulated here and it would be a shame to lose it simply because of a lack of funds.
David assures me they are. The entire database is backed up daily.
This is one lesson we learned after the 2008 server crash.

Quote Originally Posted by loueedacat View Post
I would contribute just because this site is great. I think it would be ok if contributors got more photo space etc, but I don't like the idea of their being certain content that only contributors can see. So as long as we keep the whole site open to everyone, I think a lot of us would be happy to contribute [and I second JimmyHADs point about not ranking contributions].
Everything will be visible. The money would go to other stuff. For example, people could start a blog. Everybody will be able to view those blogs and post comments and stuff. But only paying members can start their own blog. Things like that.

The forum itself will still be the place of equals, the same way it is now.