Posted by jane d on April 21, 2003, at 11:49:15
In reply to Re: financial hit, posted by Dr. Bob on April 21, 2003, at 6:36:29
> I've really appreciated the donations, but as some of you may remember, I've also wondered about a membership fee...
>
> BobBob,
Would you consider something in between? Perhaps add a little bit of coercion to the "voluntary". What if you had members but didn't require people to be members to post. You could just indicate next to the posters name at the top of the post "member". Then whenever I read a post by Phinstegg or Judy1 (the first 2 names I recognized off the list of donors) I would be reminded that I get as much from it as they do and really ought to try to scrape the money up to join. Guilt as motivation. Or, more precisely, a constant low key reminder. Plus I know I have a very positive feeling towards many of the posters here and I think seeing them labeled as members would spillover to positive feelings about membership and supporting the board in general. And I know many of those posters would be among the first to join.I don't know if this would raise enough money but it would be great if the site could be kept open to people who can't pay. I'd also hope that you could have a very low membership cost and more members instead of the other way around too.
Jane,
who needs to move this site from the "can't afford to pay" to the "can't afford not to have" category in her head. A shame those aren't always mutually exclusive.
poster:jane d
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