Awaiting feedback stages and brainstorming donations ideas from the article and poll below...
Please take a moment to read our article, Okinawa.Org Revenue Drop.
We are going to stay true to an ad-free experience for all members. The ads for members will be less intrusive and can be adjusted as we progress with different placements that aren't in your face—one thing is for certain though, members choosing to opt-in will only see 1-2 ads while visitors will see 5-7. By default, all members will be shown ads. However, they will be able to turn them off in user preferences. New registrations will have the option to enable or disable them.
Expanding On Donations
We will have 3 donation packages with 2 reoccurring of monthly and yearly and 1 permanent (pricing TBA) for as long as your account exists on the forum. The charges will be from PAYPAL OKINAWAORG until canceled. For now, it will show a banner of "Donor" on your posts and profile until the package expires (unless your purchase the permanent donor package).
We are open to all ideas that donors can receive above those that just turn on ads (you can also be a donor and turn on ads). Many site features are disabled or limited to prevent spam, but we highly doubt that anyone would exploit these settings after having paid for an upgrade.
A Preview OF What We Do
We are here to help Okinawa in any way possible, in baby steps.
If this sounds good to the majority, we can skip the three-day voting process and get things moving so that we don't need to continue keeping our stock in arrears (debt until the checks come in).
Please take a moment to read our article, Okinawa.Org Revenue Drop.
We are going to stay true to an ad-free experience for all members. The ads for members will be less intrusive and can be adjusted as we progress with different placements that aren't in your face—one thing is for certain though, members choosing to opt-in will only see 1-2 ads while visitors will see 5-7. By default, all members will be shown ads. However, they will be able to turn them off in user preferences. New registrations will have the option to enable or disable them.
Expanding On Donations
We will have 3 donation packages with 2 reoccurring of monthly and yearly and 1 permanent (pricing TBA) for as long as your account exists on the forum. The charges will be from PAYPAL OKINAWAORG until canceled. For now, it will show a banner of "Donor" on your posts and profile until the package expires (unless your purchase the permanent donor package).
We are open to all ideas that donors can receive above those that just turn on ads (you can also be a donor and turn on ads). Many site features are disabled or limited to prevent spam, but we highly doubt that anyone would exploit these settings after having paid for an upgrade.
A Preview OF What We Do
We are here to help Okinawa in any way possible, in baby steps.
Hand sanitizer and masks are like gold right now.
This was a small purchase (estimated $40, but some products were donated by generous people) to be distributed to those in need. We will also be donating Lysol wipes and other cleaning products to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Okinawa.
Like we say, everything above and beyond overhead is literally given back to our community, Okinawa, at this point.
It's Sunday, so they won't go out to respective places until tomorrow. We're merely just showing a preview of what a difference we're attempting to make around Okinawa with our ad revenue.
Stockpiles of food will also be donated to shelters, once inventoried.
We will be as open as we can about recipients and amounts, but are not taking receipts for any sort of tax write-off.
If this sounds good to the majority, we can skip the three-day voting process and get things moving so that we don't need to continue keeping our stock in arrears (debt until the checks come in).
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