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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 4422123" data-attributes="member: 115">Sorry, I didn't mean to come off so rude, though I am highly opposed to denying people access to the site - I think that's completely the wrong way to go.I don't think there's a particular problem with people not supporting the site.  I think it might be prudent to do fund-raisers more often (maybe every three or four months), but otherwise when we are told there are problems, people step up.  Looking at the totals on top of the page, $1100 has already been raised, and to my memory this is not an uncommonly high number.  I don't know how long this supports the site - my guess is not long - but possibly two to three months.  Hence having fundraisers more often.Really, everything that can be done and more from a site-management end has been done.  The CS accounts bring in some revenue, and donation drives bring in a lot.  These are sweetened by special sales, and often publishers will jump in and offer free stuff as well.  I'm honestly not sure what more could be done.  There's always going to be a percentage of people who won't donate or support for one reason or another.  I don't know what can be done more to increase that number.I don't know if the Marketplace or future Reviews sections are for CS-only.  Perhaps since they take up bandwidth, you would need to grab a CS account (or individually purchase access) to buy/sell and to post reviews (reading reviews should be free).I would suggest applying the Gleemax mentality to the boards - allowing people to link characters and such to their profiles... but that's development time that's not available, and more importantly likely to upset WotC.  They could develop integrated PbP tools and charge for access, but again, that's edging on WotC territory and Michael is rather overworked as it is (plus starting a new job, yay Michael!).</blockquote>

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