dMw Funds

OldBloke · January 03, 2009, 03:15:02 PM

Dead Men Walking are a non-profit making gaming community. We provide our members and guests with a professional forum, powerful professionally hosted gaming servers as well as LAN servers and switches.

All of these cost the community money and we therefore need to find ways to fund them.

We have three ways for members to help meet the community's ongoing costs and contingency plans.

Annual Subscription

We have a voluntary, low cost annual subscription model that allows us to provide our subscribers with the following benefits:

Supporting Member Award
Forum avatar
Forum signature
Increased PM storage
Reduced LAN attendance fee

To subscribe simply click the 'User CP' link on the forum menu and, under 'Miscellaneous' on the left hand menu, select 'Paid Subscriptions'. Or simply click this link. You will require a PayPal account to complete this transaction. Your 'Supporting Member' badge will be automatically added to your profile but this can take up to one hour to appear. You will be automatically reminded when your subscription is about to expire.

LAN Attendance

We charge everyone who attends one of our LANs a fee. This fee is reduced for attendees who are also subscribers.

Donations

On the left hand side of our forum is a 'PayPal - Donate' section where members and guests can make a voluntary donation to our community funds. This is not to be confused with the annual subscription (see above).

Transparency

We will ensure that the community is made aware of all income and expenditure. To this end we will post this information in open forum at regular intervals.

OldBloke · January 03, 2009, 03:16:16 PM

Another doc to peruse and comment on.

Gandy - can we actually tie avatars/signatures etc. to subscribers?

Anonymous · January 03, 2009, 03:17:35 PM

You can give a direct link to the subscriptions page:

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/payments.php

Penfold · January 03, 2009, 03:42:53 PM

Hey guys - just got back this morning... Typical red-eye flight and got bad laggy thing so this won't be too eloquent...

I got sent this pm ....

Can you please check in to why I didn't get the supporting member award? In october I sent 25 pounds. I even think I saw my initials on some bank statements that Pen posted. ......

Thanks

In real terms he shouldn't get the supporting member tag but my view is that people who 'donated' in the last few months should perhaps be given the opportunity to request it's transferred into being a subscriber if t hey so wish it?

There was a tranche of donations before Christmas as well from several quarters.

What do y'all think?

PEN

OldBloke · January 03, 2009, 04:13:54 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;256908You can give a direct link to the subscriptions page:

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/payments.php

Done

OldBloke · January 03, 2009, 04:21:42 PM

Quote from: Penfold;256909I got sent this pm ....

Can you please check in to why I didn't get the supporting member award? In october I sent 25 pounds. I even think I saw my initials on some bank statements that Pen posted. ......

Thanks

In real terms he shouldn't get the supporting member tag but my view is that people who 'donated' in the last few months should perhaps be given the opportunity to request it's transferred into being a subscriber if t hey so wish it?

There was a tranche of donations before Christmas as well from several quarters.

What do y'all think?

PEN

Welcome back Pen :byebye:

I did wonder why so many people started donating when I posted that we would be introducing a subscription option :doh:

If you can transfer it then do so.

Gandalf · January 03, 2009, 05:58:58 PM

Quote from: OldBloke;256917Welcome back Pen :byebye:

I did wonder why so many people started donating when I posted that we would be introducing a subscription option :doh:

If you can transfer it then do so.

The way to transfer it is to manually set them up as a subscriber. That way they will be automatically awarded the tag icon.

As for sigs, yeah it'd need to be a group permission thing and then new subscribers get added to that group when they subscribe.

Oh, and I added supporting member link to the bottom of the dmw donate box (done that a few weeks ago)

Whitey · January 03, 2009, 11:48:15 PM

I tried it about 5 minutes ago and I still don't have my badge!! :getmecoat:

other than that it's looking good.

OldBloke · January 03, 2009, 11:51:57 PM

Quote from: Whitey;257010I tried it about 5 minutes ago and I still don't have my badge!! :getmecoat:

other than that it's looking good.

Was instant for ne :g:

Gandalf · January 04, 2009, 09:55:47 AM

Quote from: OldBloke;257014Was instant for ne :g:

takes an hour at the most. the script runs at 30 mins past every hour.

OldBloke · January 04, 2009, 10:26:01 AM

Quote from: Gandalf;257043takes an hour at the most. the script runs at 30 mins past every hour.

Thanks G. I'll add that to the info so we don't keep getting asked.

Anonymous · January 04, 2009, 10:47:07 AM

Quote from: OldBloke;257014Was instant for ne :g:

took about 5 mins for me and under 2 for BBB

Penfold · January 04, 2009, 03:05:14 PM

OK I've added Vobler and KKND to the subscription module. They've both sent me PM's with payment details over the last couple of months.

There was a member who gave us Â£60 cash donation at the last LAN - As a courtesy should we add him as a supporting member to show our appreciation?

PEN

PS. Squ0nk has said he'll send me a cheque for his supporting member badge. Once I get that I'll transfer the funds to the account and set him up.

OldBloke · January 04, 2009, 04:37:06 PM

Quote from: Penfold;257135There was a member who gave us Â£60 cash donation at the last LAN - As a courtesy should we add him as a supporting member to show our appreciation?

That was o000o (Ben) and yes please.

Penfold · January 04, 2009, 04:52:55 PM

hehe I know - I didn't name him as he asked to be anonymous. :doh:

hey ho.

PEN