Topic: A small proposal to support the forum team/community. - page 2. (Read 471 times)

Well donations are generally considered a good thing I would think. The issue is, not everyone would feel great about receiving them. Generally, charities are doing it for the poor or those that have experienced misfortune. A donation to a forum is to help aid the running costs usually, and donating to a specific rank, i.e moderators might have good intentions, but those receiving it might not feel great about accepting it.

I don't speak for all moderators or staff users, but I've said personally I'd feel a little weird about receiving a donation for the reasons stated above. However, I don't think I agree with you that donations need to be for a strong reason, there's plenty of examples of people donating Bitcoin for those that have been helpful answering their questions. Albeit, probably much more rare these days, a few years ago a lot of users had donation addresses.

I do think its a great idea in general, but I believe there are far more deserving things to focus on. Obviously, other moderators might be in a total different position to myself, and might actually have a need for the extra money. I appreciate the gesture nonetheless.

Maybe the goal is good, 'donations are given to members who excel in this forum'.

OP, the members here already have enough money for themselves both internally and globally, don't get me wrong about the replies from members here, Donation is not good, if it is not sincere, maybe you want to give, not necessarily other people agree with you, Donations given must have a strong reason, members here have experienced bad things about donations, it is precisely those who receive it who are not entitled to receive it.

However, if you have a kind heart, want to donate, you can donate some Btc to those who deserve it.
You can review below the eligible donations who received it.

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You can make a gift to the Moderators and Global Moderators when you hit the " Report to Moderator button " if you find some Spam , this helps the Forum.

If you really want to donate anything , do the donation to a charity project , there are a few , specialy in the Local boards too.
You can also make something like this if you want as El duderino_ has done it here : GAME game *game* "GAME" QUARTER PREDICTIONS (just an example)

As for the moderators, we get payments periodically from the forum which theymos facilitates. If you want to personally thank a staff user, then you can always contact them, and see if they would be willing to accept a donation. I'd personally feel a little weird though, since we are already given something for our job, and most of us quite like keep the place clean.

There's far better ways to contribute that donating to the staff in my opinion. A one off donation isn't likely to have a great impact on their motivation, however reporting more frequently is something which contributes to the forum overall rather than individuals. At the end of the day, the moderators are mostly handling reports which have been reported by the community. Without the community, the moderators wouldn't be as efficient. So, I'd like to see something that rewards the community overall for contributing. This is why I was in support with the badges which were proposed a while ago, as it would provide a small recognition for those that put in the time, and effort to make this place a little cleaner, without actually cutting out the larger workforce, since it is achievable by anyone, i.e a donation fund for just staff would be not recognizing the hard work some of the community do to report.

  

Donations aren't needed. Theymos has said the forum has enough funds, but if the forum ever needed them they could just add things like more banner ads or more donator VIP ranks etc.

While others in the thread have already covered the most common ways to help the forum, I'll add a few more:

• If you have sMerit left over, merit high quality posts (especially if they were made by someone of a lower rank as that'll help them to rank up).
• If you have something to promote, bid on the forum's monthly ad auction thread. The link to the current auction thread can be found at the top of https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo. You both get to advertise and support the forum.
• If you don't mind ads, disable ad block. If the ad is promoting something that you're interested in, check it out. New paying customers coming in via the ads is a win-win-win for all parties involved: the user finds a service / website he needed, the service / website gets a return on their ad investment and Bitcointalk shows that its ads are effective at attracting customers. Don't randomly click on ads you couldn't care less about though - that helps no one.
• Offer services / goods on the forum. The marketplace boards (both regular and in the altcoin sections) are a big part of Bitcointalk. The more commercial activity there, the more likely business-minded users will choose Bitcointalk as their main platform for commerce.

However, as people have pointed out, there's a reason why Bitcointalk removed its donation address - it doesn't need financial support at the moment. As for mods, if you really want to gift a moderator (or any other user for that matter) some BTC, most moderators have a Bitcoin address in their profile. Click on their username and look for the "Bitcoin address:" field. If you're gonna pick a moderator to gift some BTC to, pick one of the dedicated board mods (who isn't a global moderator or admin).

Forum does not need donations anymore. If copper membership does not still suffice, you can just do just like what dkbit98 said.

There are many threads here in Meta that you can do your "contributions". It isn't always about the money.

• Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed
• [Report] Ban Evasion [Requesting Admin/mod to check those and ban]
• Report Malware and Suspicious Links here so Mods can take Action !

You ask for donations only when you need funds for something.
Simple.

As you can see I have already bought the copper membership. There is always something that you could do beyond that.

If you are so eager to donate to Bitcointalk you can always buy copper membership and pay a small fee for that to show your appreciation.

Like they said:

Dear forum members!

I've registered on Bitcointalk a little more than 1 year ago. During that relatively short period of time I got acquainted with lots of wonderful people. Some of those people became my clients, some of them we've partnered with, and with some of the people we have found to be really like-minded.

Just like Bitcoin the forum is built on principles of decentralization and we can see it operating quite efficiently and flourishing. Besides that I have recently found out that Bitcointalk does not accept any donations (https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html), so I am imbued with even greater respect for it.

However, in order to do something useful for the community, I would like to propose an idea. Thanks to the moderators Bitcointalk does not turn into a spammed trash can. They are doing a great job! What if we organize a donation fund where anyone could make a voluntary donation. The funds will be used to reward the forum team. The funds distribution model is a topic for public discussion: either it will be a regular vote, payments on request, or an equal division between all moderators. I am deeply convinced that there are many worthy veteran (legendary) members on the forum who could be entrusted to hold this fund (possibly a multisig). I am ready to be the first one to make a contribution to this fund.

Thank you for your attention, any critics is welcome.

In de-center we trust!