Core and Elite guru membership

Mentalist is certainly all right to ask. I said there were no promises, not that we didn't have something in the works. It's a natural conclusion that of course the money is going to fund the site, and it is. I just can't deliver any guarantees yet so stating something would be extremely bold before I had confirmation. And Mentalist, no one gets out of a ban or get's on my "good side" by subscribing. I assure you. They have my appreciation and my thanks that they would contribute to support us, we have tried to accomodate and give those supporters their additional features and contests as way of acutally getting on their "good side" versus the other way around.

Just to clarify, all of the subscription options are non-recurring?

I would rather manually renew than have a recurring charge lingering out there.

The paypal options opts to use PayPals subscription system to manage recurring subscriptions, you have the option to cancel this in your PayPal account at any time and choose to renew manually. Credit Card subscriptions are not recurring and we do not store your credit card #'s.

As for server speed. Subscriptions ofcourse go to the benefit of the site in many ways, shapes and forms. It does not gurantee an increased speed boost except in the fact that no ads are loaded if you choose so. It will enable us better to purchase servers and hardware for the website so that speeds are improved but in no makes such a purchase necessary or instant. The speed problems we are having now are manageable and we have proven that our servers can handle quite a lot with good speed, there are just recent issues with the server that need to be discovered and resolved. It is very hard at the moment to debug such issues as these happen at random times for short bursts throughout the day, so it more an issue of catching it in action. Once we do, everything will be fine. So rest assured no money is being wasted, it is always being used for the improvement of this site and the network.

Hi there,

I'm a big fan of the game and of this site. I also notice that your server can get a little busy. I thought of asking here first if the money would go towards helping to keep the system(s) in check with the demand, but I read this thread and see that Inde recommends it as the way to support Guru (and I lurked long enough to know that Inde wouldn't steer us wrong). So I've just signed up, and I'm awaiting my confirmation email! Thanks for answering my question without me having to ask it! Magic!

It's not that big of a deal if not, but if we have the option, could I abstain from the fancy titles? Nothing personal, just that I feel silly wearing any tag that says "elite" in it. Got an "ever-newb" title hanging around anywhere?

Thanks for your help, and thanks for all the work you do keeping this place up!

Cheers,
Luny

EDIT - I doubt kzap would steer us wrong either. Motto to live by, "Be still and have faith in the 'Useless Admins'" Seriously, GL with the debug ... I don't envy you.

First, thank you admins for setting me back as site contributor after I signed up as an elite member.

Now I’m just wondering if I can get my signature option back.

If not, then that’s fine. I prefer to be marked as a site contributor than elite member, and I’m at least glad I was finally able to get rid of my year+ old signature from when signatures were allowed for everyone.

thanks again! and keep up the great work guru!

This should not be taken as a veiled complaint, but it would be really great if Elite members could use the old (and useful) Search mechanism. The current one is...suboptimal.