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Klyith posted:I'd eat a $5 cookie, but not $70 worth of $5 cookies This person gets it. Johnny Walker Blue is nice, but it’s not a daily drinker.
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apatheticman posted:Is there an option to not show the spine fund badges? If you donate again after the handover the badge changes colour.
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I feel like if the Patreon rewards are free access to poo poo that you already have to pay for, it might wind up being revenue neutral or worse
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I think it's pretty clear from this thread that a ton of people would pony up for a patreon out of love if the website, i don't think you need to tie it to any reward. A lot of us feel that we get a lot of value out of this website and could afford to help support it but don't particularly feel like we need to buy a new av every month. Some other posters can't afford it and deserve to keep getting the most of their original  . But I'm not an e biz mastermind so who knows.
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I signed up for Lowtax's patreon to support the forums, because I sure as poo poo wasn't watching Gaming Garbage. I'd sign up for another one that was actually keeping the place afloat I gotta say too that a membership option does give a certain air of sophistication and exclusivity to the place, don't you think? 
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Jan 28, 2021 04:59
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You should put all the revenue into GME
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Jeffery: Here are the forums finances, as you can see, the forums are in the black, generating ~$4000 in profit per month. Goons: HOW CAN I GIVE MONEY???
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alnilam posted:I think it's pretty clear from this thread that a ton of people would pony up for a patreon out of love if the website, i don't think you need to tie it to any reward. A lot of us feel that we get a lot of value out of this website and could afford to help support it but don't particularly feel like we need to buy a new av every month. Some other posters can't afford it and deserve to keep getting the most of their original Yeah I'm not really the type of person who buys avatars or whatever all the time but I'd be happy to sub to a patreon that went to improving the forums/keeping them afloat. That's why I subbed to Lowtax's patreon before it turned out he was a huge piece of poo poo liar-abuser. lol that he never seemed to realize people wanted to give him money just for the sake of the forums and not because of Gaming Garbage which was in fact garbage.
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I can't afford much but would do a patreon - I don't need a reward, this is one of my favourite places on the internet with the 'curated' news from the particular threads I haunt. I'm a skint oldie  so was paying $2.99 - not sure how much of that was going to Lowtax / tax / patreon. (My av changes and platinum privs were donated by anonymous persons.)Advantage of patreon is if you are doing several, it just comes off in one monthly hit instead of having yet another outgoings pot to think about. Front page? I think I went on it twice. I found this whole site by googling a particular incident in British politics and landing in one of the threads so definitely agree it should be low priority.
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if y'all want to give money away i'll take some
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I'm sorry for my comments. Jeffery is a good person and I wish him well on his ventures. I will donate all my savings of $5 million to this site
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Ork of Fiction posted:Jeffery: Here are the forums finances, as you can see, the forums are in the black, generating ~$4000 in profit per month. These forums are exceptionally important for a lot of people, past and present. 20 bucks a month for the entire time I've been registered wouldn't really be enough to pay back what these dead gay forums have given me.
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Hi I like somethingawful.com I have been posting here for nearly 15 years and if anything, I’m worse than when I started.
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Wait I have an idea: Require a credit card tied to your account and every post charges a nickel Bada bing bada boom
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Wait I have an idea: So if you post in FYAD you make money?
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ChubbyChecker posted:lmao at how much lowtax lied Are you going to get back in touch with the front page writing staff and bring them back on?
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I intend to be proactive in growing this place, be it be enticing old users to return How much would it cost me in patreons to get permabanned user "bring back old gbs" aka "32 MB OF ESRAM" unbanned?
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Jan 28, 2021 05:45
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This borders on competence and I am not used to it
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Ork of Fiction posted:Jeffery: Here are the forums finances, as you can see, the forums are in the black, generating ~$4000 in profit per month. I think it's a pretty easy call that the first couple months of jeffrey's ownership would have an unusually high amount of avs bought, returning regs, and other forms of  to celebrate. Monthly revenue will probably not be that high in the future. And if he's thinking of spending more on hosting and paying to improve the SA code, it'll leave the black real quick.People donated thousands a month to Lowtax, and the main reason was because we thought that if he was too broke the forums would go away. Plus a whole heap of emotional manipulation and lying, but mostly the forums. Also, Jeffrey's said he's not looking to make money from this, but if he wanted to pay himself back I think that would be totally cool with most people. Maybe the patreon reward tier can be shares in GBS LLC, and we eventually transition into a poster-owned cooperative.
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Ork of Fiction posted:Jeffery: Here are the forums finances, as you can see, the forums are in the black, generating ~$4000 in profit per month. Oh you just skimmed the numbers and didn’t read the post then, huh?
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I would do a patreon but I would have to mail you the cash each month. LMK
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Jan 28, 2021 06:27
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jesus christ lowtax was lying out of his rear end on how much this site costs to just clear basic operations. you could probably cherry pick 5-10 people here probably put that much money into their own discord servers monthly
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beep by grandpa posted:jesus christ lowtax was lying out of his rear end on how much this site costs to just clear basic operations. you could probably cherry pick 5-10 people here probably put that much money into their own discord servers monthly He wasn't lying its just that nobody bundled in the website-owned Nissan GTR lease payments and its need for premium gas, fluids, tires, tickets and insurance premiums. Just wait till this website gets its NISMO 370Z
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Jan 28, 2021 06:55
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Just tell me an address and I will place a stamp on a $5 bill once a month to save Patreon fees.
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Hahahaaha holy crap congrats to Skyl3lazer. Also I’d patreon gladly.
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I was subscribed to the old patreon until poo poo went down, I'd subscribe to the new one. I don't want to use the donation link because I have the best tag right now
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I would like to congratulate Skyl3lazer for spending the most the first month - he will get to permaban lowtax! He spent enough to pay for an entire month of hosting costs, super cool. Hell yeah, dude. I know him from: Path of Exile Goons and #poligoon on synIRC!
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But the real question is how many Audi’s can you lease a month with the forums income ? Maybe we can do like a ride share deal where everyone gets the car for a day
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Down for a few bucks/month to keep the corpse of this dead gay forum twitching.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:did anyone mention using Google Pay or Amazon Pay or PayPal (if they haven't unblacklisted SA yet lol) as payment processing yet? idk how much that would help reduce credit card transaction fees I was going to post something very similar. I admit I'm in Canada land, where I don't have to pay for healthcare and my government The catch I guess is you'd need a processor plugin that would work with whatever electric-hamster based architecture is actually running the forums store. This is also predicated on the forums store remaining extant, which may or may not be the case. I admit, my experience is dealing with different a market segment, not people buying 5$ memes for each other, but I am curious who is providing our merchant account? If we've a variable rate depending on customer cards it sounds like they're not an aggregator, ie maybe not a very big outfit and we potentially could do much better elsewhere.
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ChubbyChecker posted:perhaps the patreon folks should give their extra money to some charities instead This isn't really the same equivalence, it's more like a subscription to support a service that I enjoy, two different categories of spending. Plus without knowing the numbers I think Jeffrey deserves some recompense whatever cash he outlaid to basically save this place -- someone mentioned resetera and if you know what happened with neogaf this place was on a similar trajectory, preventing that type of implosion was pretty clutch
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So we aren’t about to have our next Fred Sanfordesque “big one”?
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Freakazoid_ posted:I'm still curious to know how much Lowtax was paid for the assets. at 4x those margins about $200k but who knows
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Forums tech has been progressing nicely. I am still in the process of doing the legal legwork to hire Astral (it is more onerous than I ever realized to do this right.) We have some big improvements planned even if many of them are under the hood. There is a tech forum now that I expect will get much more active over the coming year as more stuff changes.
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*Jeff enters SA fixer upper after purchasing it from Lowtax* "A doom forum?!"
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Just to chime in, please set up a new patreon. These forums have provided me with entertainment and information for a long time now, and I will gladly support them again. I gave to the Gaming Garbage patreon not because of Lowtax, but because I thought I was helping keep this site around. I would give money again to whatever patreon replaces it. Thank you for taking care of this place.
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