Chat Room NOW!

[FredFogg]

Couple of us in the chat room, come join us!

[cwd56]

Trying to join, but not letting me in confusedd

[FredFogg]

Trying to join, but not letting me in confusedd

Someone told me tonight that Chris has it so only contributing members can get in the Chat Room. I think we need to persuade him to change it so everyone can get in. The chat room is just wasted without all the members having access to it, in my opinion!

[cwd56]

I donated a few minutes before posting that, so i guess I just have to wait til my status is updated.

[tacatanach]

Someone told me tonight that Chris has it so only contributing members can get in the Chat Room. I think we need to persuade him to change it so everyone can get in. The chat room is just wasted without all the members having access to it, in my opinion!

That would be nice. 10 bucks (seem to recall that was the amount asked for) may not sound like a lot but when your in school 10 bucks is not a trivial amount.

[goshawks00]

Maybe so but this thing doesn't run for free and I think it is a good gesture to support the site you use... If you can't afford $10.00 maybe you need to look at whether you can afford falconry.... Life isn't always fair ... maybe we need Barack to investigate so we will have free chat service also, surely that's got to be worth a few votes.
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Barry

[FredFogg]

If you can't afford $10.00 maybe you need to look at whether you can afford falconry....

I don't think most folks think of Falconry Forums as part of their falconry expenses! I think if a forum is going to charge someone to be able to go into the chat room, then they should charge you to join the forum, then everyone would be able to go into the chat room. It should be one way or the other. Donations and advertisements should pay for the forum, not required fees! Just my opinion!

[outhawkn]

Maybe so but this thing doesn't run for free and I think it is a good gesture to support the site you use... If you can't afford $10.00 maybe you need to look at whether you can afford falconry.... Life isn't always fair ... maybe we need Barack to investigate so we will have free chat service also, surely that's got to be worth a few votes.
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Barry


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[tacatanach]

Maybe so but this thing doesn't run for free and I think it is a good gesture to support the site you use... If you can't afford $10.00 maybe you need to look at whether you can afford falconry.... Life isn't always fair ... maybe we need Barack to investigate so we will have free chat service also, surely that's got to be worth a few votes.
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Barry

Your right it doesn't run for free, but I'd like to think that people who are in a place in life where they can contribute money will do so and those that arn't will find their own ways to contribute- be it taking wanta be falconers from the forum out hawking, or buying what they need to purchase from site sponsors.

I also wasn't aware falconry required much money. 10$ is substantially more than I spend on falconry a week- my ponds are about 2 miles from the house, my big start up costs have past (not that those were very large), and I feed pretty much exclusivly birds I trap/kill. I don't think my birds are suffering any because I have no money, they eat every night although I may not, Ive got enough telemetry to double tag the birds, and any time a bird needs a vet visit they get it with no short cuts on anything the vet recommends doing. I'm able to do this by not spending money on extra stuff- like to talk to the same people I can talk for free on AIM or other falconry forums...

[goshawks00]

Geeez you really are on hard times... but maybe this will help... we don't talk about to much on the chat ,though maybe we will nowtoungeout.

Look at it this way it's not $10.00 a week , it once a life time ( at least so far). That's one refundable pop/beer can a day for 100 days.. Three gals. of gas.

Maybe we should start a schlorship for all the poor falconers that can't afford to join us rich affluent aristcrats.... Hmm.... sounds like another piece of chat fodder.
Barry

[Chris L.]

I don't think most folks think of Falconry Forums as part of their falconry expenses! I think if a forum is going to charge someone to be able to go into the chat room, then they should charge you to join the forum, then everyone would be able to go into the chat room. It should be one way or the other. Donations and advertisements should pay for the forum, not required fees! Just my opinion!


Your right it doesn't run for free, but I'd like to think that people who are in a place in life where they can contribute money will do so and those that arn't will find their own ways to contribute- be it taking wanta be falconers from the forum out hawking, or buying what they need to purchase from site sponsors.

I'm able to do this by not spending money on extra stuff- like to talk to the same people I can talk for free on AIM or other falconry forums...




Neither one of you are even close to why I make the chat for the forum supporters. Believe me the money I have received from the donations doesn't come close to the man hours I put into this forum nor the costs of the software and programs I have purchased out of my own money. I do it because I want a great place for falconers come and enjoy themselves..

Which leads me to why I only leave it open for those who contribute. You may not know, but my last forum was hacked through chat.. yes, almost lost everything because of it. All the hard work me, Wes and the members put forth was almost lost because of some idiot who had a thorn up his ass thought it would be a great idea to destroy this forum.

Everyone loved chat but I needed a way to help narrow the suspects down.. So I figured if you gave up some of your hard earned money you would not act like and idiot in chat or try to hack NAFEX. We cant moderate the chat like the forums. It keeps the garbage off of it and helps keep some of the hacking at bay.

So to think "I charge for Chat" to make a dollar is absurd and actually offends me. Neither of you have any idea how much money or time it takes to run a successful forum. I encourage you to start one for yourself... Heck that is the reason I started NAFEX. I was unhappy with what was out there. So there you go.. you want free chat, now you have a reason to start your own.

Enough said about this, Chat is only for supporting members!!!. If you don't want to support NAFEX ( $5- to $?) Then by all means you are not coming into the chat, period.. In fact if you think its absurd or to have a forum that has chat for members who help support the site is wrong, then i recommend you dont type www.nafex.net (http://www.nafex.net) in your address bar. Everyone comes here because they want to be a part of this forum. I only want people here that want to be here. I have stood by that from day one of this site going up.

As I said it has nothing to do with money, it has everything to do with keeping the integrity of this site intact.

Now I will be getting in my Ferrari with a license plate that says NAFEX..ideaa;)




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