Donations (domain name)

ok, is it me ? has something gone horribly wrong with my PC but, Im seeing Ads at the top of the page, just under the banner

{{Nope your not going mad Azriel- I dont see the ads, my adblocker is taking care of that- but I do have large white spaces where they should be. Guessing its time to cough up the rent to the Admin!! Amarie!!!! Its tax collecting time!   How much do we need to pony up? }}}

Lots and lots and LOTS!!!!

remind us how to do it.

{{Yup a step-by-step idiots guide ideally for me! }}}

yep Dummies

When I tried, the system was too wonky to work. So I gave up on it.

A for effort, Forest.

http://www.hobbitmovieforum.com/buy-credits

Amarië wrote:2000 Credits costs  23.70 USD or 19.80 EUR (according to the skrill system-option)

Approx 85credits /USD and 101 credits/euro

ok, happy to donate, How much per head & is it to be sent as Euros or Dollars ? Do we chuck in what we can afford or is it a set rate ?

It's as much as you want, if you want to.

Seems the skrill option has preset choices with the lowest being ~6 euros for 500credits (one year adfree is 2000). Hipay also have the option to type an amount you want to donate.

Hmmmff.... seems the option to pay to be ad free has vanished and now I really do have to get a package instead.

I have to buy the 'advanced pack' for 5260 credits a year to remove ads (but we get ssl which is nice I suppose)

The domain name part is currently free because we talk a lot, but that come ontop of everything if we start having to pay for that as well. Removing ads was 2000credits a year.

Meh. Not that I cant afford it or refuse to pay, it's just annoying and I want to complain.

I know you will keep us up to date.

{{So they are wanting about $50 a year to remove ads? Cheeky bastards!  Ah well at least its nearly payday! }}

Hmm...now that they've got their hooks in they want to make money.  Hard to blame them, but annoying.

Edit: Petty - more like 60 Euro or $75. Have to stew on it a bit.

{{And speaking of the domain name- Forumshire obviously is unassailable- but 'hobbit movie forum?' especially in light of that film being utter shite, and if we are to attract any newbies it will most likely be because of the upcoming Amazon farce. Maybe time to vote on dropping the Hobbit movie bit? }}

Yeah, need to drop that, if we can. Just The Hobbit Forum? Or change that to ForumShire as well?

But will the new Amazon fans/trolls come our way with that name? Tolkien Media Forum would cover it but is about as unsexy as it gets.

cant you use Tolkien in the name? or Middle Earth? something without Hobbit in it?

CrabbitfansofTolkien.com

How does it work of we all donate a bit and it went over the years figure? Does it automatically give you more or does some cheeky system just take it and not tell you nothing extra counts?

Lance - it accumulates forward.

Cool.

Also... is there anything else that we could enable by contributing something else.... some special, cutting edge forum tech?

amarie had mentioned SSL but I don't know what that is.

just paid for 1000 credits.