all right, I voted yes as well, because I enjoy the site. I too couldn't care less about the added features mentioned, but i do have some other ideas that I'd like to put forward of things I would get a kick out of. and although we've been assured that it is self-sustaining right now I'll say that my no.1 reason I would contribute would be to maintain it in current iteration.

before my suggestions a couple things:
- I have no problem with special badges. I don't want one, I seek no blessings or fans for something like this. BUT I think it should be an option, because guys that exercise it say SO MUCH about themselves.

- depending on how it works out, sometimes memberships have abilities on a forum that non-members don't. I know of one I'm a non-paying member at and the result is I can't search. I think that hurts the given community as a whole. Many new people to our passtime/craft whatever, come here for information, that's why I started here. it would be tragic if this was in any way hampered. I know it was stated it wouldn't be, but I wanted to say it too.

Things I would like to see:
- More razor porn, larger pictures. clubhotrod (OVERLOADED with ads) has a cool gallery at the top that rotates.
- Make Alex, Joe Chandler, Josh Earl, Max etc. post more pics and make more razors!!!!
- a very nice calendar. some of the pictures here are so well composed and shot it surprises me. I think an end of the year submit and vote thing with a calendar to be produced would be great. yes, there are little online build your own calendar things, but they are never the best quality or the best price. Hot pinups WITH razors would be amazing, then I wouldn't need so many different calendars. I'll think of some ways that could work.
- organized get togethers. i.e. the annual conventions held by so many groups. usually in places like vegas or other easy to get to cheaply locals. maybe because we're such a small group it is every two years.
- free poker room? I'd get into some online texas holdum games.

Imagine this for a convention okay:

Small room with lots of tables, displays by vendors (Masecraft, Tony Miller etc), the big guys too (Dovo). Early entry with no selling allowed for x amount of time so we can see everything. or allow sales but you can't pick up until after the first day displaying. Private poker tournament for members that want to play. dinner with raffle. a couple of workshops showing how to do certain things (the custom gunmakers guild for instance exists almost entirely out of the need to pass on the knowledge of fine gunsmithing). Maybe watching somebody make a razor from start to finish, a set of scales, a class on finishing where a list of materials is sent. you bring the stuff, and in a 2 hour or whatever workshop you get to epoxy coat scales for instance.

And drinks, lots of those.

I would like to see extra monies, i.e. if there were a raffle, to go to a fund for guys that want to start shaving but don't have the money. and not the ones that get on here and whine and boohoo, they just bug me. but we make it something that isn't commonly known so when a new person gets on here they don't know they might get a hand. so for instance, a guy comes on here says he's trying to get going with it, bought or got XXX razor and what next? a small rotating committee of members can get together and decide which of these sounds genuine and in need. they pay for the honing from a certain member, get a practice strop from somewhere else.


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