Donations Options

[Antje]

To be honest, I don't think the giveaway thing is a good idea. And this is coming from someone who would be the first to donate if you could. If you make the donators "exclusive" like most sites do, it would give an unfair incentive to donate, and the people who couldn't donate for reasons beyond their control, even though they wanted to, would be left out. To be honest, I'd be the happiest if nothing changes when you donate about yourself, or perhaps you get a custom title or your forum name in blue or something like that, but nothing too big. I know, this sounds strange, and most people probably think it's a good idea, but to me, I don't want to cheapen something like donating. Or perhaps I'm wrong and just taking things too seriously. Who knows.
Just my two cents.

Yes, I totally agree!!!

[Ree]

The way i see it you should have a link for whoever wants to donate.

Have a little breakdown of how the donatations are used. Have no extra incentives for donaters, people can donate out of the own goodness of their hearts lol. just see how well this goes down and if you ever need to then have a few incentives in the future?

im just wondering how come all the staff seem to be against using ads?

[Revolution1985]

I will donate as soon as there is a link for me to do so.

[linkin_boss]

I totally support this idea and I'd love to donate. But also why not throw some unobtrusive Google Ads on the page? As long as it doesn't cause any problems I don't see why not?

The way i see it you should have a link for whoever wants to donate.

Have a little breakdown of how the donatations are used. Have no extra incentives for donaters, people can donate out of the own goodness of their hearts lol. just see how well this goes down and if you ever need to then have a few incentives in the future?

im just wondering how come all the staff seem to be against using ads?

i also think the ads thing is a good idea depending of what kind of ads. as a example google ads, it's good and dont bother too much when you open a website the only thing that you need to win money is getting the links clicked. a los of people would do it every day for the site ^^

[Dmitry]

Ads are not on the table at this time.

[wiiesel]

just put a little "Donations" Button on the site and/or the forum. I don't see any disadvantage in doing this. Who wants to donate can do it.
You don't have to ask for it.

[Astat]

throw the mid sized stuff (<1gb) up on rapidshare. apart from what a certain person had to moan about it, it's very fast and with an account even faster! many sites with bandwidth issues use it and it might save a lot of money.

people should rather invest in an rapidshare account (about 10$ a month) than spending it to the site. it will take of a good bit of weight from your pockets and might solve the problem. plus, when lplive uses an account to upload stuff, the more people download files off of it, so you get points that you can use to extend the sites account.

I wish I would have had Internet while I was on vacation so I didn't have to reply to a week-old post like this, but whatever.

Do you work for Rapidshare or something? I can't believe you actually expect people to pay money for the same kind of service they can get from Megaupload or 4shared completely free. I don't have anything personal against Rapidshare, but I still don't see any benefit of using it over any other public download/filesharing service of its type. And in terms of the free version of Rapidshare's service, it's hands down at the bottom of the barrel compared to its competitors because of the ridiculous limit of 10 downloads per file. No other service of its type has anything remotely close to that kind of restriction on its free service, so why bother with it?

You don't get anything good out of Rapidshare without spending money on it, but you can get good results from some of its competitors without spending a dime, is the point I'm trying to make.

[Papelbon]

Or people can man up and use torrents... I mean, is it really that hard???