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The volume of posts seems to be rapidly declining across the site from what I've seen. You can almost see Boards dying in real time. Tragic.

I don't regret subbing. If Boards closes up so be it. When the request came out for subs I thought it would be everyone give what funds allow and see how it goes. Never entered my mind to differentiate between subbed v not subbed.

However Ive been thinking about it since this morning. To be called a "beggar" for having a link to the subscription page in my signature by gurners demanding all their petty grievances are met before they've even given up a penny does stick in the craw. Its like a weird reverse shamefest from feckers who probably arent going to give anything anyway. No wonder theyre banned from some forum with logic like that. They can eat a ball of their own shyite.

If I get banned for this post that's fair enough. I'll take it on the chin. What wont happen is me going to some other part of Boards to demand (some might even say BEG) I get unbanned before I'll sub again.

You're not wrong. The amount of negativity oozing from a lot of posters on this thread is impressive. I've always believed that Boards is a truer reflection of the individual than the person in the flesh. The perceived anonymity means that a lot of people drop the masks and let Mr Hyde off the leash on here. Which means there's a lot more miserable bast*ds out there in society than one would imagine.

What's surprising or maybe shouldn't be surprising for me, are the posters over on the motors forum. I would have thought that anyone buying a new car would be able to afford the €50. At this stage, most boardsies are aware subs are needed to keep the site going. But no, most of the posters over there haven't subscribed, including many with thousands of posts. Maybe the new cars are just a PCP illusion of having some disposable income. Or maybe they think subscribing is something the rest of us can do for them. Or maybe they think subscribing is for idiots. Dunno…

A site that has been flickering away for 9 months..what will we do to get subs? Saturate it with ads.

You click through ads, hold the phone for 10 seconds till the flickering stops. You'd have more pleasure playing snake on your Nokia 3310 in 2003.

Christ you couldn't make it up😅

If it was myself coordinating subs I'd probably try this.

Right we're at 600 paid subs. I'd message the main mods across boards. Ask them to have a look at their threads and identify good solid posters, they're familiar with, who haven't subscribed.

PM them and tell them they're valued members, their contributions are always excellent. Ask them would they consider signing up. Outline clearly where the sub would go and future site plans.

If 100 mods messaged 15 posters and got 5 to subscribe, you'd have 500 subs. The message could be pretty generic with a username change. But getting a PM makes it.. personal.

I post in Weather, Dorcarch and Meteorite are mods who I'd interact with. Shembuc in GAA etc. The mods of sites would interact with several posters.

Thanks. I'm seeing that too with posters. They're not on this thread.

And key is what your sub will do, where it'll go and what's the overall plan, transparency.