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This summer I have set a Goal to buy 28 memberships starting with all my non member friends on my pager
and moveing on to random byonders. This will make a grand total of $504.00 So far i have bought 1 membership for my friend Goldfox so only 27 left to go wish me luck.

Also 10 of the memberships will be given away in a contest but i am waiting till I have the money to buy them before i hold said contest.
Sounds fun! (:
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Why not give all of them away through contests?
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Yeah, if you could do some contests to award those memberships to DESERVING people that would be swell.
Akriloth wrote:
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What he said. ^_~
Duelmaster409 wrote:
Yeah, if you could do some contests to award those memberships to DESERVING people that would be swell.

I agree with this. Don't give them away to random people that don't deserve them.

I personally think this is just the biggest waste of $500. Anyone who actually wants a Byond membership enough has one and most random people wouldn't even know what to do with one if they had it.

I'm totally failing to see any purpose to this. Is it like a popularity stunt or something?
Direct donations towards BYOND would be better than to give memberships to random people.

I'm not going to say that the members page has always been a great place to visit- there's been quite a few immature trolls since it's inception. But in recent years way too many random anime kids run amok on here because of other benefactors who have done exactly what you're planning to do.

The revenue is nice for BYOND, but no decent developers take the site seriously when all they see is 12 year olds posting inane drama. I'll bet that this has driven away more than a few of the great developers who used to frequent the site(I know it was a big factor in me rarely renewing my own membership). Thank God we have better front page moderation in place now- but I consider it too little too late.
Pretty much, Jared.

I'd love to be able to really whip the section into shape, but I have a bunch of issues with it.

1. How significant should the posts be to be allowed?

This is mostly just to get around the "derp I went to school today" problem. I have hit these alright in the past, with fairly minimal fuss, but it's always an iffy one.

2. Do I let ads through or not?

Probably should, if they are of any quality. But you can bet your ass I'll collect complaints like they are GTA kill-tallies for doing so, particularly as I'm shoving copyright based ads around at the moment.

Having just talked through it, maybe I just do that.
I imagine it feels like trying to put out a forest fire with a single pail of water, eh Stephen?
It feels like punching 5 year olds to get them to act out a Shakespearean play, actually. I can do it, but the performance won't be great and I'll have a lot of crying kids.
Stephen001 wrote:
It feels like punching 5 year olds to get them to act out a Shakespearean play, actually. I can do it, but the performance won't be great and I'll have a lot of crying kids.

You'd like to punch 5 year olds, wouldn't you?
...didn't you recently say you were being kicked out of your home and that you were working three jobs to support yourself? Blowing $500 on memberships probably isn't the best option for you right now.
EmpirezTeam wrote:
You'd like to punch 5 year olds, wouldn't you?

Why do you think I took the job? It's for a better society, okay.
LordAndrew wrote:
...didn't you recently say you were being kicked out of your home and that you were working three jobs to support yourself? Blowing $500 on memberships probably isn't the best option for you right now.

Few things i would like to address

1 I have already found and moved into a new place whitch is 10x better and lot cheaper rent

2 I am working 3 jobs atm but like i said this will happen this summer i puting a little money back to meet this goal and i have been working 2 jobs this whole time so this is nothing new.

3 This is not a popularity stunt I donate 500 dollar's every summer to other things like red cross and other charity's This year i have decided that byond would get this years donation

4 Why am I giving some memberships to random user dont get confused here The randoms are just people idk i wont just pull names out a hat i will find random ppl i think deserve it.

Lastly I am just a giver and thats what i like doing
Well, I suggest doing a few various contests. Some programming, some pixel art, maybe some home-made illustrations or short-stories.

Do a variety, so a variety of deserving people get memberships.
Now you have to deserve it. Poor people surely work hard to get free clothing and or food. Not trying to be an asshole, but if the man likes giving why should it matter who it goes to? We don't say "If this poor man works for it I'll give it to him..", no, we provide it for him because there is such a kindness deep down in some of our hearts. I.e; DungeonDan

Anyways, a few contests to get 16 - 20 of them off wouldn't hurt. 7 - 11 spares, give-aways.
it would be great if you could get us a membership.
we are a development team and we are working on some games atm. so a membership would be a great add for us...
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