Hi Dave, sorry about that... got sidetracked.
I thought it might be better on a new thread, but I may as well keep going.
The scenario: this is a free forum; you pay out of your own/business's pocket to host, build and maintain the forum; then the admin team and moderator's give a huge amount of their time, resources and expertise....
What about having a mechanism for users to make voluntary contributions towards the running of the forum? Once-off or regular if wanted. (It would certainly come in cheaper than us hiring a consultant to give us the info we can gain from regular use of this forum!)
I'm not sure how much of a mission this would be to organise as it would rather defeat the purpose if say the fees for a new bank account are more than any contributions made.
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