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Old 08-28-2010, 03:03 PM
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Tell me, why are we advertising on our pages?
I have bills to pay. The site runs ~$1,000 per month in expenses and that number is always growing. Advertising has never covered the costs - I have always run this site at a personal expense to myself.
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Old 08-28-2010, 03:07 PM
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Yesh. That's a lot of money for a site like this. Think we should start a donation fund?
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Old 08-28-2010, 05:09 PM
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Yesh. That's a lot of money for a site like this. Think we should start a donation fund?
I appreciate the sentiment but totally not necessary. I'd much rather implement some advertising than harass the membership for money. God Bless America.
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Old 08-28-2010, 05:10 PM
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Yesh. That's a lot of money for a site like this. Think we should start a donation fund?
What are you, some kind of communist? This isn't PBS.
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Old 08-28-2010, 05:39 PM
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What are you, some kind of communist? This isn't PBS.
Offer to help with expenses isn't Communist! Mister Moustache! Communist would be FORCING the membership to give 10% of their household income to Bunni. Now considering how many members are kids with no jobs (well, no income is a better word) that concept would not be clear to them.
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Old 08-28-2010, 11:16 PM
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What are you, some kind of communist? This isn't PBS.
Hey, just because I'm Chinese, and born and raised in Chicago, doesn't make me a Communist.



And thanks for reminding me MPM. I need to delete the old talk sections on my talk page.
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Old 08-29-2010, 01:29 AM
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Let's have Ten Nugent donate a shitload of money to us.
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Old 08-29-2010, 05:14 AM
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Well, for one thing, the Modern Warfare 2 discussion page could be trimmed down. It's quite large with a lot of old pre-release discussion on it.

I was also thinking a good way to trim down the video game section might be to appoint some trustworthy editors as temporary admins and give each one a letter category to do (e.g., admin 1 cleans out A section, admin 2 cleans out B section, etc..).
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Old 08-29-2010, 05:46 AM
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Recently I've deleted all the talk sections on my talk pages because all of the discussions are over.
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Old 08-28-2010, 05:48 PM
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I have bills to pay. The site runs ~$1,000 per month in expenses and that number is always growing. Advertising has never covered the costs - I have always run this site at a personal expense to myself.
A large part of that is people CRAMMING the servers full of crap that the site doesn't need.

My suggestions to help with this:

1) Continue the policy of limiting screenshots. We don't need 36 screenshots of one gun (I've talked to Kin93 about this already).

2) We are pretty good now at policing guys who put up PNGs. Ben41 has been especially good about warning new members about this. I once deleted PNGs which were 2.57 Megabytes just for ONE PICTURE!!!!! But a lot of them are just 700K-1.4 MB, which is STILL TOO MUCH.

3) I am still against people putting up endless pages of stuff which are of questionable use' to anyone wishing to use IMFDB as a research resource.

4) Start DELETING crap on your talk pages that are old business. You can keep memorable quotes or conversations. But questions back and forth that are ultimately settled. Why keep them? I'm gonna start editing all my OWN stuff that that is just dead weight on Bunni's servers.

5) We do have a rule against members mass deleting any conversation or discussion that is not created solely by them, but us MODS should start cleaning things up. I see tons of discussions on discussion pages about questions or mysteries that are eventually "cleared up" and are no longer relevant, so we can either clear the discussion page or delete it entirely until someone has something new to say.

Again, I wrote too much again, but heck. I am procastinating from cleaning guns...
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