1000 posts and still not Red?

[Stoo]

By be us being prodigious posters, that increases your ad revenue, right? If not, yer doing it wrong!

 

[admikar]

Anyway, seriously what happens with contributions? What happens with ad revenue or possible other revenue? What kind of business entity (ScubaBoard is a business - or am I thinking quite wrong there? (I know that I am good at that at least) would one be contributing to?

Who cares? If I want to watch a movie, I have to pay. Who gets the money? I don't know and I don't care. I pay for something I find valuable.
The same thing is with Scubaboard. I am spending more of my time here, than all of the rest of the web combined. So, it is valuable to me and therefore I am paying to help keep it going.

 

[The Chairman]

If not, yer doing it wrong!

People tell me how to run SB all the time. I appreciate the feedback and it may or may not be applicable. Most of the internet runs not on ad views but on ad clicks. We do both.

 

[The Chairman]

It was pointed out to me in a PM that I should tell you the difference between being a supporting member and Going Red.

There isn't any. If you see "Go Red", it's the same as becoming a supporting member. So you don't have to go around looking, here's a link: https://www.scubaboard.com/community/account/upgrades

Again, thanks for this thread. Thanks to those who support SB in any way, including those who merely show up and read. We are a community that supports its own and I like that. I am arguably one of the most blessed peeps on this planet. I thank all of you for that.

 

[Snoweman]

I don't have an extravagant life style.

But you do have a boat-load of dive computers!

 

[Dish]

Done. Thanks for the gentle reminder @flyboy08

 

[rhwestfall]

@flyboy08 - following the principals of Newtonian Physics - nope - you push, I push back.....

(and only because you "push")

FWIW - I have been a voice involved in various "solicitations", including some being as simple as asking each member to pledge $1.00 to a significant charity a forum had as their adopted charity (St. Judes)......

 

[The Chairman]

But you do have a boat-load of dive computers!

Yes, I do. Some are for students. I also have six student Express Tech BCs, six student Deep 6 regs and so forth. I love to teach and it's good to have the gear to do so.

 

[flyboy08]

@flyboy08 - following the principals of Newtonian Physics - nope - you push, I push back.....

(and only because you "push")
....

That’s sad...10,000 plus posts and I assume you must get something positive out of being here?

 

[Altamira]

That’s sad...10,000 plus posts and I assume you must get something positive out of being here?[/QUOTE
and @rhwestfall.

There are many ways divers can contribute to the heath and vitality of SB. Donating money is only one way, and quite frankly, the easiest, but perhaps not the most valuable way. When I came to SB nine years ago, it was not a "sea of red" banners on divers' posts that hooked me from day one. Rather, it was the vast wealth of information that a wide experience base of divers chose to give us the gift of their personal time and effort to share experiences that would take any of us several lifetimes to accumulate. I am far more impressed by someone willing to donate their time, sharing their experiences, even at the cost of some serious pushback and criticism at times, than merely making a cash donation. There are many posters still here, and many who have left SB, whose posts I will always cherish, and have enriched my diving education despite never having met them. To those divers who have make one, or ten thousand, valuable posts, I salute you, whether or not you have a red banner. Donating knowledge and experience is priceless.