nick  12/04/2006 - 08:17   

Guilders & Joining the Guild

If you want to financially support the forums/the site and help keeping it alive, please join the Guild.
To take a look at the different subscription options or your running subscriptions, use the link above or the one to the Paid Subscriptions section in your User CP.

While we are working on different goodies to make joining the Guild more interesting, the main aspect still remains to keep the site alive and help paying the bills. Once the server contract runs out, it'll only be refreshed if we have the money to pay for it. In advance we'd like to thank you for your support.

A list of Guilders/subscribers can be seen here (right underneath the lists of admins/mods).
On the forums guilders can be identified by a silver star (*) in front of their name.

Note that it takes a bit of time until your account gets automatically added to the subscribers/guilders usergroup and the star is displayed in front of your username. The money needs to be send from one account to the other and the system needs to update your account. All this is time consuming.
In case you have to experience a unusual long amount of time waiting for your subscription/star to be activated (say, more than 24 hours), please contact one of the admins and we'll take a look at it.

Please note that donating money to the site does not protect you in any way from getting warned or banned from the forums if you break the Forum Rules. No refund of donated money will be given if you get temporarily/permanently banned.

For now, all guildership fees have to be paid in ?. It's a lot easier this way. Prevents adjusting the fees manually all the time a currency exchange rate changes and all that. This way everyone pays pretty much the same (ignoring the smallish exchange rate here) and there are no huge differences like before where we set the fees manually. As PayPal should do the money changing thing, there shouldn't be much trouble.

If you want to make a payment for another user you can use the option below. This is currently a manual process so it can take a couple of days to complete.

Give 6 Month Subscription (?10) to User

 

Donations

If you can't/don't want to subscribe and join the Guild there's another option how you can help with the bills:

If you have some money left at the end of a month and no idea how to spend it, feel free to take a look at the Donation button at the top of the site.

Using Paypal (works with credit cards and bank accounts nowadays) you can submit a donation to us. In advance we'd like to thank you for your support.

The first batch of users who stepped forward and donated money to rescue the forums from getting shut down can be seen here.

Please note that donating money to the site does not protect you in anyway from getting warned or banned from the forums if you break the Forum Rules. No refund of donated money will be given if you get temporarily/permanently banned.