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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 475964" data-attributes="member: 1">I don't.  When the boards changed hands, we had a very limited time to raise money and buy the messageboard software etc (a matter of days, in fact).  So I passed the hat round and asked people to contribute what they could.The only thing I said was that I'd be grateful for the help at the time, but that if it was given it was understood to be voluntary and that people should not expect to be owed anything in return for it (other than that I would use the money to buy the messageboard software etc.). That was solely to protect myself from people coming back later after being edited, banned or whatever for profanity, pornography etc. and saying "Hey, I paid - I can do what I want".  It certainly didn't exclude the possibilty of me giving someone privilages; it just ensured that people woud not expect them. Anyone who was not comfortable with that was advised not to donate anything.  I remember it well, because I made a point of making that very clear indeed - it was an important issue given the circumstances.Luckily for you, though, chatdemon, despite the fact that no such promise was made, nobody who donated to buy that software etc. got any special privilages, features or anything else.   So, nothing for you to be upset about here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think you may be confusing two different things - the community supporter accounts came much later and were entirely unconnected with that initial whip-round; they were about server hosting when traffic increased to the point that it got very, very expensive.</blockquote>

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