They should have just sent up a donation page and call it a day. The group of people who don’t want ads will just use Adblock. The group of people who genuinely want to help the site was just limited to giving $4 a month. It’s terrible for everyone involved
I PMed similar suggestions to admins months ago, including just a donation cork board where you pay what you want to have an image be posted on a virtual cork board for a week to make things fun. They asked for them, they asked for PMs, but I didn’t even get a reply.
Like the monthly plan is Reddit Gold pricing, and maybe that’s acceptable as a proven forum, but going for that tier from the start limits them and makes little sense.
I even suggested a java bitcoin minor like some sites use, as an opt-in option. 2 mods I talked to, one who no longer is a mod, thought they were great ideas, but I still never got a reply back from an admin.
I’ll see what happens later in February. I always want to give people the benefit of the doubt, at least I try to. The truth of the matter is, there are a lot of good people on that community.