IS NOT GOOD!

[Cain]

I suggest we call this the "fun tax"

[hooplala]

Quotes take up lots of server space?  Really?

[Cain]

Apparently.  There was some kind of dispute over it, and I'm technologically advanced enough to follow, though I could see it, in theory, being the case, given all quotes are also links back to previous quotes and not just a display form which squishes whatever text is inside of it.

Anyway, if you are against the Fun Tax you are against America and threaten international stability. The Fun Tax!  For a more stable tomorrow.

[Faust]

They take up space and make the database a bloated mess (multiple copies of the same message), but they don't contribute to the slowdown we experience other then a fraction of a second loading each page.

A membership fee for the site would kill new membership. But as always people CAN donate, there is a button on the front page for that. Its rare that I don't end up making up the cost each month on top of whatever donations we get.
What I could do is start upping the resources if people contributed more.

I am not so good at making the funny, but there are 5-6 posters here who make me laugh for real life out loud on a regular basis. Sadly, the quote change has taken one of the tools for doing that away and I have not laughed for real life out loud at something on the board for several days.

Generalissimo is right. Is make board less fun.

I don't see it. Care to explain how it makes people any less funny?

[hooplala]

Apparently.  There was some kind of dispute over it, and I'm technologically advanced enough to follow, though I could see it, in theory, being the case, given all quotes are also links back to previous quotes and not just a display form which squishes whatever text is inside of it.

Anyway, if you are against the Fun Tax you are against America and threaten international stability. The Fun Tax!  For a more stable tomorrow.

I'm not against it.  $10 a year is very doable.

It also might cut Poptard out finally.

[Faust]

I'm not against it.  $10 a year is very doable.

It also might cut Poptard out finally.

A few sites under siege had a membership fee of just $1, it pretty much stopped the troll siege, but of course it has to be turned off after a while to encourage new blood.
I wont close registration, that would be upping his level to an actual threat other then a nuisance because we would be losing new members.

[hooplala]

A few sites under siege had a membership fee of just $1, it pretty much stopped the troll siege, but of course it has to be turned off after a while to encourage new blood.
I wont close registration, that would be upping his level to an actual threat other then a nuisance because we would be losing new members.

Wouldn't it really make it so only those who REALLY wanted to join would join?  It seems to me that it would make the new blood actually into what is going on here, rather than cutting new blood altogether.

[LMNO]

For what it's worth, I wouldn't have joined all those years ago if I had to pay $1.

[hooplala]

For what it's worth, I wouldn't have joined all those years ago if I had to pay $1.

Seriously?

[Faust]

For what it's worth, I wouldn't have joined all those years ago if I had to pay $1.

Nor I.

[Cain]

Nor I.

AND MY AXE!

Uh, I mean, me neither. 

[LMNO]

Seriously?

Yup.  I was googling Discordian stuff during work; PD.com popped up as a forum and I wandered in.  If I had to pay a dollar, I would have kept on going.

[hooplala]

Seriously?  Wow.

I think this may be the first thing on this site that has actually shocked me.  I am stunned.

[AFK]

If it was a one time deal, I might've signed up.  But if it was a yearly membership, I probably would've passed. But, I am a notable cheap skate as well as being a Discordian.  

[Cramulus]

I expected to be flamed off the site pretty much immediately -- no way would I have paid a buck for the privilege!