21-04-2002 17:43									#1
	Nosy About Funding Suffering from ads?

I have been to many vBulletin sites.

I recently joined one about the film 'Gladiator' which had all kinds Russell Crowe information.

It is

http://dreamworksfansite.com/gladbb....php?forumid=12

I've never posted there, but the moderator said:

Dear G-Fans, Originally, I was suppose to make an announcement last week about pop-ups and power ads returning to the board for some months. However, the need became less within days which lead me not to make no announcement on that.

However, once again, the board needs your help. The board is a License product by VBulletin. And they ask for fixed dollars to renew the License every year. Since there have been some problems recently, this time they are asking for a higher number in US Dollars. All I ask are small donations from each of you that equals to that amount.

You can either paypal it to me or send an international money order to the following address

Jawad Mir
31 Adelaide Street
P.O.Box 304
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5C 2J4

Hope you understand and I am certain you guys will come out to help. Thanks.

Jawad

I ain't paying, I read one tiny Ed Harris article and I'm not paying $10 for that privallege.

Does Apolyton request such donations? I have a 'spare' kidney.
And how come you aren't as up front as the Jawad person?
And what is this ever rising 'fixed' sum vBulletin requests?
And have you ever considered turning Off-Topic into a gay man dating agency?

Alynzia.

	21-04-2002 18:13									#2
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Don't worry - you won't be asked for money here - this site is fully funded by the aluminati.

	21-04-2002 18:20									#3
	Full PM-box? Change here!

1) thank you, but we're not in the position to need to ask for donations
2) there are two ways to have vBulletin
- lease it for $85/year
- buy it for $160

	21-04-2002 20:27									#4
	Increase the size of your Attachments

If you lease it, do you automatically receive upgrades?

	21-04-2002 20:49									#5
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

yes, if you lease it, you get all the upgrades
if you buy it, you can get upgrades for 30$/year

	21-04-2002 21:40									#6
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

Markos, I can remember you telling that Apolyton will NEVER be a pay site... do *you* remember?

	21-04-2002 21:46									#7
	Inflate your Upload Space

what makes you wonder if i remember or not?

	21-04-2002 21:55									#8
	Remove this text

Let's call it curiosity .

If you forget the words, you might actually make us pay someday .

	21-04-2002 22:08									#9
	Got spare money?

if you have no reason to wonder about it then i'd like you not to question my memory. thanks.

	21-04-2002 22:14									#10
	Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

quote: Originally posted by MarkG 1) thank you, but we're not in the position to need to ask for donations 2) there are two ways to have vBulletin - lease it for $85/year - buy it for $160 yes, if you lease it, you get all the upgrades if you buy it, you can get upgrades for 30$/year

I take you plan on having vBulletin for less than 3 more years.

	21-04-2002 22:17									#11
	Increase Your PM Length

actually, we own a vb license, we dont lease it.

	21-04-2002 22:19									#12
	Ooops Tired of ads?

Change "less" with "more" in the other post.

I guess you would have recouped your cost by now. Fourth anniversary this summer isn't it.

	21-04-2002 23:53									#13
	Put an end to popups!

quote: Originally posted by Solver Let's call it curiosity . If you forget the words, you might actually make us pay someday .

The operative word here is <I>make</I>, which naturally implies that we are talking about a pay-<I>only</I> site. That is not and will not be the case with Apolyton -- we are continuing to stick to the promise we made long ago along these lines. Payment would only be, if/when implemented, <I>optional</I>. All of the content would still be <U>free</U>. As for what you would get with payment, we are still exploring "feature lists" options as well as if, when and how to implement such a payment structure.

-----------------
Dan; Apolyton CS

	22-04-2002 00:02									#14
	Re: Ooops Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin I guess you would have recouped your cost by now. Fourth anniversary this summer isn't it.

Err, we're only using vBB since May or something last year...so there's still a while to go

	22-04-2002 00:11									#15
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Isn't it part of the same licence, is the vbb completely different to the old system? I thought it was an upgrade of version, hence covered by the upgrade costs Mark was talking about. I'm not a web tekkie, and have a poor memory on the issue, so you are probably right.

	22-04-2002 00:17									#16
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

vB is totally different from UBB, in fact it's made by a different company

	22-04-2002 00:50									#17
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

IIRC, Infopop had a pretty decent PHP board that they took over from wwwthreads. I used to goof around with wwwthreads, vBB and phpBB as well...gotta love them PHP boards

	22-04-2002 03:20									#18
	Increase Your PM Length

Just get Ming to slip some ad business to you. Or have Lefty fund the whole thing out of Masonic funds.

	22-04-2002 05:58									#19
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

...I see the ads have returned
But thankfully no popups

Thank you for keeping Apolyton a free site- If I buy a game through the internet, I'll buy it through a link from this site!

	22-04-2002 09:17									#20
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

I think Firaxis should be paying us for our efforts

	22-04-2002 09:38									#21
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

You haven't visited the Civ 3 forum for a while, have you UR?
Firaxis paying us for the stuff that was written in that forum...

	23-04-2002 05:31									#22
	Inflate your Upload Space

quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger I think Firaxis should be paying us for our efforts

I can see it in the headlines tomorrow - Firaxis to pay each active Apolytoner 10 cents US!