A nice guideline for next year's voters.

[chernobylwraiths]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

Why? What's your reason(s) not to...
is it wrong to raise money for the site?

Well, it is exclusionary and that is what we want to avoid. I think the registration process was a good idea. Maybe next year we could actually have two major parties and have primaries for each.

I also think not having admins and mods running the campaign is a good idea as well.

[mybills]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

If the voters donate, they're not excluded.
And if "exclusion" is what we're trying to avoid, why do people want to exclude admins and mods?
Excluding them doesn't help the site, but donations do.

[YardRat]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

If the voters donate, they're not excluded.
And if "exclusion" is what we're trying to avoid, why do people want to exclude admins and mods?
Excluding them doesn't help the site, but donations do.

People aren't going to donate just so they can vote.

Staff are here for the support of the membership, not their own personal gain. Comes with the territory. The greater number of awards, prizes, accolades you bestow upon the regular members, the more likely they are to stick around, and maybe even donate. The greater number that go to the staff, the more likely a regular member is going to go elsewhere for their entertainment.

It's pretty common, almost universal actually, in the real world that any organization or business that sponsors a contest excludes their employees and their family members from winning and/or participating. Why do you think that is?

[shelby]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

That is a very good point.

[Bling]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

Ever heard of a poll tax, mybills?

[mybills]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

So are ya'll saying Playa only won cuz he had mods & admins on his team?

[Mitchy moo]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

If the zone took Visa / MC, I'd suspect more people would be apt to donate. I knew about Paypal and the bank draining potential and it's not appealing to me.

So, if your going to deny people that haven't paid you should equally expand the ability to pay easier. You can use Visa / MC at MCdonald's for gods sake, why not here?

[shelby]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

Skoobs, you can donate using a credit card.

[YardRat]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

Skoobs, you can donate using a credit card.

I knew about Paypal and the bank draining potential and it's not appealing to me.

[Dude]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

Skooby, if you want to pay the processing fees for us (permanently), we'll take your credit card donation.

Otherwise you can use the PayPal option.

Thanks for your support.

[LtFinFan66]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

People aren't going to donate just so they can vote.

Staff are here for the support of the membership, not their own personal gain. Comes with the territory. The greater number of awards, prizes, accolades you bestow upon the regular members, the more likely they are to stick around, and maybe even donate. The greater number that go to the staff, the more likely a regular member is going to go elsewhere for their entertainment.

It's pretty common, almost universal actually, in the real world that any organization or business that sponsors a contest excludes their employees and their family members from winning and/or participating. Why do you think that is?

Then you could have parties buy a months donor status for people if they vote for them

[YardRat]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.

Then you could have parties buy a months donor status for people if they vote for them

You can tell you're employed by the government.

[mybills]

Re: A nice guideline for next year's voters.