Congrats, SpursTalk!!!

Yea, gotta agree with people in here. This has become probably my most visited site and it's nice as hell to have a place to talk to spurs fans who are knowledgeable and passionate (things i've been deprived of most my life). I gotta say it's very telling of yalls character to keep up and maintain a site that has grown to quite a large size without really getting anything in return. I was an admin on a site for awhile that was very small in proportion to this site and it was a pain in the ass. Just responding to pm's, complaints, and limiting trolls takes awhile by itself. Can't even imagine the time st takes up. I'm sure quite a few people here would look to help out with the site for all the time yall put in here whenever you figure how you want to do that. As for ads, of course throwing them everywhere would be shitty, but a few here and there that don't pop up every damn place wouldn't be awful. And if they were say adds relating to spurs/nba/sports apparel/shoes/stuff like that, I don't think that would be bad at all.

Well If you make some kind of application that will enable users to donate money I am sure many will do it.

I spent hundreds of hours here since 2003 (Rasho signing) and there are thousands of people that are even more here than I am :)

A couple of $ for such a great add/popup free forum is more than worth it.

Vbookie! Let us buy Vbookie $$$ using paypal, money from this could fund the site!

Make all users without black coloured usernames pay a fee :hat

1 dollar a month for a premium account with 1000vBookie daily? :)

We should create a brainstorming thread to see how you could start making some cash without trashing the site with banners...

paypal donation or even sellin spurstalk tshirts/merchandise....could help

or use the proceeds to charity donation, at leasts kori can claim the funds donated to charity as deduction to offset the server hosts fees thats tax non-deductible...

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Originally Posted by hsxvvd

Vbookie! Let us buy Vbookie $$$ using paypal, money from this could fund the site!

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Its against the law to deal vbookie money in real cash.

One banner ad across the top next to the logo, and one across the bottom next to the posting rules. It would not be that intrusive at all, and you guys deserve the income.

Just as Peter Holt has ponied-up and people should buy tickets, you guys have done this for a long time out of your own pockets and people should gladly ignore a couple of ads.

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Originally Posted by Kori Ellis

Yeah the traffic is to the point, we could make some serious money off it, if we put up ads. But I really hate the forums with ads everywhere, so I have always avoided it. I can't deny though that it would be nice to even come close to breaking even on the forums by earning some kind of money.

People always ask me if there is a way to contribute. Maybe we'll come up with something before the season starts. But I'm never going to litter the forum with a bunch of ads (well, at least not the Spurs section ;) )

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Litter the troll section with it.

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Originally Posted by Kori Ellis

Yeah the traffic is to the point, we could make some serious money off it, if we put up ads. But I really hate the forums with ads everywhere, so I have always avoided it. I can't deny though that it would be nice to even come close to breaking even on the forums by earning some kind of money.

People always ask me if there is a way to contribute. Maybe we'll come up with something before the season starts. But I'm never going to litter the forum with a bunch of ads (well, at least not the Spurs section ;) )

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If it ever came to that I would be willing to pay to keep those damn annoying ads off of here. I would be willing to contribute though. No problem!

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Originally Posted by Kori Ellis

It's currently funded from our bank account :lol and has been for 6 years. We bought two servers a couple years back and it's run on a dual-server system (only real way to handle all the traffic without lag or downtime).

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I think you should charge the Mav & Lakers fans to post here. IMO :wakeup

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Originally Posted by PandaSpur

I think you should charge the Mav & Lakers fans to post here. IMO :wakeup

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Winner!

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Originally Posted by zepn

winner!

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I think you should charge the Mav & Lakers fans to post here. IMO :wakeup

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That would definitely cut down on the douchebags and trolls.

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Originally Posted by TDMVPDPOY

paypal donation or even sellin spurstalk tshirts/merchandise....could help

or use the proceeds to charity donation, at leasts kori can claim the funds donated to charity as deduction to offset the server hosts fees thats tax non-deductible...

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they canr sell merch. Wirh spurs in the title iirc

Im not quite sure how ads work, but my suggestion is to put them in the mod's sigs. everyone is used to seeing some annoying sigs anyways.

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Make all users without black coloured usernames pay a fee :hat

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:depressed :lol

BTW someone can tell me what is the criteria for the black coloured usernames ? I know I know you are going to say :wgaf: but it's just a curiosity.

Nmber of posts don't seem to be the criteria maybe seniority on the site but it seems to be different for NBA section ?

For the rest I'm not against ad if w/o pop ups crazy animations and if it's a limited number.

I'd actually feel better now if Kori put up some ads..you guys should be making some $ off this..ads don't really matter to me, as long as they aren't pop-ups..

another sign of class from Spurs fans..

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Originally Posted by DAF86

Just have some ads that stay in one place and don't move, I don't mind mind those. for example: in the forum index, one at the top of the page, one in one side other in the bottom, things like that. I hate that ads that pop up every time you go to a new window.

P/S: I don't know if I make my self clear is very tough to try to express yourself in your second lenguage while beign slightly drunk.

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I only hate ads in between posts. I wouldn't mind a top or bottom banner.

Ads wouldn't bother me at all...I would also donate...This is a great site, but you guys should definitely at least break even on it..you put a lot of work into it.

side banners and Charging Mav and Laker fans FTW

If you were to put ads on SpursTalk, there's an easy fix for us Firefox users, AdBlock Plus. Blocks every ad on every website and it's free!

with the time kori and timvp spend here to make this place great, i don't think it should cost them money.

i don't have any doubt that a paypal donation system to share the cost of this site would work very well.

not to make money with this forum is a thing, to lose some shouldn't happen.

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If you were to put ads on SpursTalk, there's an easy fix for us Firefox users, AdBlock Plus. Blocks every ad on every website and it's free!

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That add-on works great! I have been using it for awhile now.