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Post by lloyd on Jul 28, 2017 7:30:36 GMT -5
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Post by Samskwatch on Jul 28, 2017 8:13:27 GMT -5
As I read the posts on this thread, I noticed that whatever we will do to fund the new forum, we won't have any problem. Everybody is enthusiast about it. Let's just see the bigger picture and focus on the move ahead!! I'm sure it's clear by now that we will move.
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Post by WillyCKH on Jul 29, 2017 11:43:11 GMT -5
If we are moving to a new site, when should we expect it to be? I like the idea of sponsorship and seed-bank for subscribers. Justin, if you need any help just let me know, I will be less busy in Winter. Cheers, Willy
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Post by amriko on Jul 29, 2017 12:28:35 GMT -5
I think moving to a new site would be awesome! Posting pictures here is so hard that I've just given up. As for the funding I think sponsorship and the auction would be a good idea
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Post by amriko on Jul 29, 2017 12:31:28 GMT -5
Also, how long do you think it will take to set up the new forum? And is Lloyd's post count of 4,294,967,295 slightly exaggerated?
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Post by H2O on Jul 29, 2017 18:32:55 GMT -5
lloyd I love the idea of having a $1-2 request for giveaways, it would also encourage members to put effort into seeds, I've seen some members accept offers and then do nothing with the seeds. For financing everything would be 100% transparent and I would have a dedicated thread that showed all money coming and and all money going out. I'm going to look into the possibility of using a second Paypal on my account, otherwise I would just use my own account to transfer money through. yukondave, I do believe some of our members use it but the main problem is that it is still one more step in posting pictures, which unfortunately deters the vast majority of new members. nelzabe, I think that could work on some forum and it is a great idea but I am 100% set on everything being free on this forum and financed only through donations (money, plants, auctions etc). amanitovirosa I promise to lower taxes!... I mean keep taxes away! (said in my best politician voice) danyoh, me too. grackle, great to see you and thanks for posting your thought! Samantha, I do think we would all love to see daily plant pictures. Justintime, that could be an option we could put forward, I would personally rather see the extra funds go towards some sort of conservation effort but this is something we could all vote on when the time comes. Ray, glad to see you are on board! stevebooth, I think I can speak for our forum and say that we love having you around and hope you continue to post. I very much love your idea of sponsors. It wouldn't be some random ad so seeing a banner would only help new members find other members that sell plants. Also we are all a little Loony Samskwatch, I think you are right, for the most part people seem to be on board but I do want to make sure every members concerns are addressed. There are a fair number of maybe votes and still one no. I hope we can get everyone into the yes section. WillyCKH, if (which looks likely) we move to the new forum I will cover the costs up front and we can start the funraisers on the new forum. I'll have to take a couple evenings to do the FTP and forum setup but I wouldn't imagine it would be more than a week after we come to a conclusion. I also have a friend that said we can use his server for the time being, he is also a tech wizard and will be able to help us with any problems. Regarding a Seed Bank, I love the idea but the last time the OCPS tried that it failed extremely hard and left many people unhappy. The ICPS is the best option in my opinion. This all being said if we find a way to make it work I am happy to implement it and contribute seeds (i am ashamed to say I don't even bother collecting seeds from most of my species) amriko, Thanks for your opinion! Sounds like we're on the same page. I don't know if I can say, it might ruin the mystery that is Lloyd So overall I am leaning towards Auctions/Donations and Sponsors. It does seem many are leaning towards this in one way or another. I truly believe we need to keep the site 100% free for everyone unless they would like to contribute. This puts no pressure on new members (which might hurt membership recruitment) and not giving any extra reasons to move over to FB. For the Maybe and No voters, please post here with any additional thoughts and concerns. If you would like to keep it privet please PM so your thoughts can be address, I want to make sure that no is feeling left behind in this decision. Thank you everyone for your thoughts!
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Post by H2O on Jul 29, 2017 18:37:33 GMT -5
As a side note please vote if you haven't, I would love to see a very high percent in the Yes before moving forward.
I will create a Yes/No vote for the final say this week but before that I will message/email the entire forum and ask them to voice their concerns. I don't want to spam casual lurkers so I will do one email asking them to vote yes or no and a link to this thread to add any comments.
If we move ahead I will then email once more to let everyone know we are moving, this way it is a max of two emails.
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Post by amriko on Jul 29, 2017 22:00:53 GMT -5
Perhaps we could have a donated plants and seeds shop? That way people could contribute to the forum by donating plants and seeds. then other people could buy them and the profits would go to keeping the forum open AND the donatee. That way the donatee wouldn't have the hassle of shipping individual packets everywhere which is expensive, but would just have to ship the stuff to wherever the shop would be. Then the people there could package and ship everything. In the end the donatee would get some money (probably less then if he\she sold it normally, but it'd also take less time and money to ship everything) and the forum would stay open. The excess money could then go to whoever is running the shop because that's hard work
Edit: I just realized this is just regular business with slight differences
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Post by WillyCKH on Jul 29, 2017 23:10:14 GMT -5
I love the idea of having our seed bank too. If everyone trusts me enough, I'd love to take up the responsibility to make it work! I like the transparency idea. It is great! Sounds like we are making lots of progress already! I'm excited! Also we can have t-shirts for sale too, like we have talked about long time ago. Willy
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Post by amriko on Jul 30, 2017 0:34:59 GMT -5
I love the idea of having our seed bank too. If everyone trusts me enough, I'd love to take up the responsibility to make it work! I like the transparency idea. It is great! Sounds like we are making lots of progress already! I'm excited! Also we can have t-shirts for sale too, like we have talked about long time ago. Willy I think you running the seed bank is a great idea! As for the t-shirts, we can do the same thing the Sarracenia forum does.
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Post by WillyCKH on Aug 8, 2017 9:57:47 GMT -5
Maybe we can have a CPSC calendar in the future, with previous plant of the months featuring on it? Just a thought. Willy
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Post by Samskwatch on Aug 8, 2017 10:22:25 GMT -5
Love that idea Willy!! And clothing is a nice idea too. We could have caps and beanies. And I'm sure some of our member are good at artwork. We could feature our members artwork on our gear!! That would be just great to have a thread where people can propose their own artwork!!!
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Post by joeelliott on Aug 11, 2017 21:31:08 GMT -5
I am of two minds on this. The ease of posting pics on a new forum is enticing but I fear valuable information will be lost. There will be threads with random but extremely useful answers that could get missed if we are copying and pasting into the new forum. Not to mention the shear volume of work it would be to browse through every post to find such nuggets.
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Post by porcorosso on Aug 31, 2017 12:20:12 GMT -5
New Forum ! easier photo uploading means I will contribute more which removes the hassle of uploading onto deviantart then linking here botching the link then trying a few times... Fantastic ! I am sure that enough forum people will donate if the crunch is ever on ! Awesome! Thanks Justin !
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Post by WillyCKH on Aug 31, 2017 12:30:57 GMT -5
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