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You get rep points when people use certain smiley faces on your content. There are certain widgets on the front page that keep track of who gets the most points and who wins the week/month/etc (for example it says animationfan is the current winner of this week and month and buddy is the current leader of all time). We don't have any features that rep points tie into, but that could always be an option if something comes up that is compelling enough. The tl;dr of it all is that rep points are internet points.

Also to everyone generally: LET ME KNOW IF YOU DONATE/POINT ME TO YOUR DONATION IF ANONYMOUS, AND WHAT REWARD YOU WANT Thank you everyone!

I suppose you could say I was inartfully trying to avoid opening cans of worms that may or may not even exist. DMA has got the fundamental idea down though: donations = shitposting into the future, and you can get a colored rank or points for being a team player! Donations pay for server/software expenses, no one pockets any money, and it's not a refundable transaction if you screw up and get banned.

What I mean is you are not buying a rank or rep points or whatever else we do down the road. You are donating to the server fund purely out of the generosity of your heart and we are thanking you from the bottom of our own with a complimentary reward.

it is tight between him and ghostrek2

i feel like incel is one of those things you'd learn quicker by spending more time online rather than getting out. unless by "get out more" you mean "leave this message board"

it took me until poof's post to figure out what "incel" meant and then it all clicked

happy birthday ghostrek1

happy birthday ghostrek2

That was definitely real sympathy emoji. I am sympathing so much for you right now you have no idea.

To my knowledge, not with the default tools I have.

Thanksl you for the input. The basic idea I was going to announce was to do something like $20 for a year/$10 for 6 months/$5 for 3 months/$2 for a month. I do like that idea of a max donation unlock making it permanent, if we still go that route. The plan is to come up with additional incentives down the road too once we have some sort of system in place. It's all a bit tricky once you try to incorporate actual dollar values into the mix, you have to make the values fair and it's a very touchy subject.

Still hidden/deleted. The problem is that if hiding or deleting is turned on, you can make a thread, get 100 re replies, and then kill the whole thing.

I take very seriously complaints about donors getting preferential treatment in mod actions. And if I appear to be favoring certain users over others, that'd be great for me to know. But that is different than users getting a cosmetic perk (ie. rank color of their choice) for a year for donating $20 or whatever, in that the rank confers no extra benefits other color. In fact, I think it would show preferential treatment if we let the half-dozen users who received custom colors on the previous iteration just for funsies keep them forever while at the same time only awarding the cosmetic perk to everyone else as a thank you for donating. Hosting the site costs money and we can't keep paying out of pocket. So we're looking for fun ways to incentivize donations (while we come up with other avenues of making the site self-sufficient) without penalizing people who don't or can't donate. There is a gap that needs to be bridged here. If you've got better ideas, I am all ears.

As of right now, guests can post on this board: https://unevenedge.com/forum/32-uemb-password-recovery-and-mod-support/

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the password recovery and mod support board supports guests posting unless you mean you want to discuss things in private

^what he said

I was fiddling with ranks last night. We are going to implement custom ranks as a donation incentive like I have been mentioning doing it for several months now. I will make an announcement thread later when I am at my computer. But basically custom ranks will be rewarded for donations, on an $X for Y months basis, or as a prize in contests. People who have already donated will be entitled to cash in and people who already have customs right now will get another three months no-questions-asked (though I have to go back in and restore some people obviously). Given that it is a reward for donating actual human dollars for keeping the lights on for all of us, I'm in a bit of a bind where I can't in fairness grandfather in certain folks in perpetuity or give special treatment. So the tl;dr moral of the story is that as soon as I am at my PC I will fix it for you, (and all the other stuff I said).

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