Paying for Sigs

[Batleth]

Originally Posted by icemage

Why should people pay for sigs, bigger sizes, or user pages. Most people are already paying for POTCO why this too? I want a sig to post my info. My parents wouldn't let me buy 2 things... I understand you need money for this site but no one will know anything about me or my IGN (In Game Name) on POTCO. even if it is monthly the donation money should be enough. The first 5000 users get a sig though. That is good but, people should also get sigs or everyone should have sigs. I have never seen a site letting people not make sigs. I still like POF and still think it is a great forum though.

Please take this in to consideration. Thanks
~IceMageWiz

This is a privately owned site. One of several which Nick owns based on Disney's online games. He's very busy and rarely uses the site but trying to fulfill the need for such a thing since Disney doesn't have any of it's own forums. Since we don't have Disney's big bucks backing us up, the money to keep the site running needs to come from some place. It takes quite a bit these days to pay for a server, domain name, bandwidth, etc. to keep a successful site online. So we ask for donations in the form of subscriptions. We get some funds to help cover the cost of everything and the users get an upgrade to their account.

We have years of experience running successful forums. So this won't be one of those sites here one day and gone the next. We have successfully had www.toontowncentral.com running for about 8 years. About the same amount of time the game has been online. We do our best to keep a good family-friendly based community for everyone to enjoy. So your money is going to a good cause.

Whether you wish to donate is entirely up to you. We do host monthly contests to earn things such as casino cash (which can be used on the site's casino) and will soon be giving away subscriptions like a free year of having a sig, extra PM space, and other subscription. This allows for those unable or unwilling to donate to have a chance at having some of these subscription extras to their account. Everyone is free to join in the fun of the contests and eligible to win.

All donations given to this site is used exclusively to keep the site online and running smoothly. Moderation staff isn't paid for their time. All mods/admins volunteer their time to keeping this a nice safe community for everyone to join.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Batleth

We have years of experience running successful forums. So this won't be one of those sites here one day and gone the next. We have successfully had www.toontowncentral.com running for about 8 years. About the same amount of time the game has been online. We do our best to keep a good family-friendly based community for everyone to enjoy. So your money is going to a good cause.

I can back that up these sites have a 99.999999999999999999999999999999% chance of closing anytime soon unless like some crazy pirate crashed his ship into the room where they have the servers these sites arent going anywhere.

And yea it might be $5 a year for a site but forums are much different and TONS more bandwidth gets used and it has to be reliable so it cant just be a $5 a month server. And holy geeze max i knew nicks bill must have been high but not that high O_o i honestly would donate to the site but my parents wont let me .

[Maximvs]

Originally Posted by Chris

I can back that up these sites have a 99.999999999999999999999999999999% chance of closing anytime soon unless like some crazy pirate crashed his ship into the room where they have the servers these sites arent going anywhere.

And yea it might be $5 a year for a site but forums are much different and TONS more bandwidth gets used and it has to be reliable so it cant just be a $5 a month server. And holy geeze max i knew nicks bill must have been high but not that high O_o i honestly would donate to the site but my parents wont let me .

Hey - no worries Chris Nick's sites understand not eveyone has the money - as Bat mentions thats why contests wil be opening up options like winning accounts and the like

AS fot the 20,000 - its a big number which I'm just drawing rough conclusions... if Nick purchases his hosting sites (I doubt he'd use some $5 a month hosting service - so lets say $500) even then your looking up to about 5-10 k... still not cheap