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[Redjack]

In the past, the board has solicited donations from the member community to offset hosting and software costs. The board is user supported and ran. All admins and moderators are volunteers. All costs are currently paid out of pocket. We are asking for your support to covering hosting costs and allow us to upgrade our board software. Several questions surely come to mind:

1) What about moving to a cheaper hosting service?
Our current hosting service is pretty cheap for what we get. We are happy with the stability provided at this new host as well as the security afforded. Any reduction in costs there would sacrifice some stability &/or security. We have elected against this.

2) What about changing to free software?
All the software we use is free except the forum software itself. Given the small size of the administration and moderation staff, we are resistant to that. Given the options, the current software is paid for and we are not seeing security/stability issues on this version so we would just stay status quo.

3) So what are you asking?
Several members have said that a $20 donation per user to get "Dumpshocked" is fair. We are running with that.
Paypal = redjack (at) dumpshock.com

4) What about ads?
Dumpshock is an ad-free board and we are committed to remaining so if possible. I guess we could consider this a last resort option.

5) So what is Dumpshocked?
a) Your group changes from "members" to "Dumpshocked" announcing to the world that you are a committed supporter.
b) Dumpshocked members can email a moderator a custom avatar to be linked to their account. [PG-13 friendly]
c) Did I mention the prestige of being in the "Dumpshocked" group?