What exactly is the "Subscriber's Forum"?

I think Craven kind of meant/means to do some bells and whistles for the subscribers' thing...but has never had the time.


For me it is just about contributing to the site.

The chat room sucks, BTW. It has a wicked delay, I don't know that anyone uses it now?

I just did it, for the first time. I'm such a slack-ass.

yeah and I never see you on Y any more

are you saying you joined, littlek? way to go, and welcome.

if anyone's interested, i have a sure-fire method of increasing subscriptions.

As far as I know or care, subscribing (ie kicking in a few bucks periodically) earns you no special benefits but does help Craven keep this thing goiing. That is all I want.
True story: I had to appear in court today regarding a bad check someone had written us. I appeared in court just before the judge came in, and being a little late, I was a bit flustered and forgot to remove my A2K baseball style hat, a premium we got in Craven's first fund-raiser.
The court cop came up to me and asked me to remove my hat.

yitwail....

Please don't say "shut the site down for several hours and then have the "subscriber's forum" pop up in "at a glance".

That seemed to do the trick to get me thinking about it!

good one, boomer. you should be in marketing. my idea was turn it into MLM. so, if a subscriber can "sponsor" 5 or 6 other new subscribers, she gets a cut of those new subscriptions, plus a cut of any they sponsor, and so on. works for amway.

but i'm kidding; honest.

I think there isn't any "pay for the subscriber's forum" equation; I think it's just, if you want to contribute to the care and feeding of A2K, cool. (Full stop.) Meanwhile, now that you've contributed, here are a couple little perks for ya.

I know that the gathering discussion started on the subscriber's forum -- the decision of which city and when was made there, and then once it got to that point, it was opened to the general membership for further specifics.

This is just a general YIKE!!!!


A2k is in no way to blame......but it relates to my A2k subscription, which is driving me nuts, but it may be kind of funny to others.


One subscribes through payPal, right?



This is a SIMPLE process.........



However, since I have subscribed..........I twice lost my purse, (both times refound) and I had to cancel all my cards.


So...twice I had to redo the subscription info.


Glitch first time......so I end up having to cancel and redo the A2k subscription.


Second time, the friggin' thing won't accept the card number.


I contact PayPal.


We go through numerous attempts to make it work. Eventually, the person offhandedly asks if I am leaving spaces between the numbers. I am. problem solvered. (Why doesn't the form SAY that?)


During this process, I several times have to cancel my A2k subscription, and redo it.


Then I get a different credit card.


It won't accept THAT number.....



Talkagement.



We all give up.....I have to cancel subscription to A2k and start over.




That card company offers me a different card.


I have to cancel A2k again, cos Pay Pal won't accept the new card otherwise...same glitch.



I clear cookies.....and can again add and subtract credit cards.


I add another card, and make it my primary card.



I find out tonight that Pay Pal has debited the card that was no longer the card it is supposed to debit...but this is a GOOD thing, since I find out that the other card is still active (it was supposed to have been closed)


I go into Pay Pal to delete the old card.

It successfully deletes.


I assume my subscriptions transfer to new card, which was already on the system.


They all do....



Except......

Email arrives, Pay Pal has cancelled the A2k subscription!!! Again!!!



WHAT about cancelling a CARD, and replacing it with another, cancels the subscription?


It sent me the nicest email telling me, though.



It talks almost like the elevators in Hitchhikers' Guide.



I am going to kill it.



I hope this doesn't make the hamsters as dizzy as it makes me.

No, but it does tire out the hamsters a little.

Subscribing helps with the cost of the site. In return, some information is provided via a regular newsletter, and there is a small subscribers-only forum. That's it. We had wanted to do more for the subscribers but unfortunately the technical stuff didn't happen.

Oh, and you're also cooler than cool. Even cooler than before.

dlowan: "Talkagement"?

Do you folks in the Subscriber's Forum have a secret code/language as well?

There are, as near as I can tell, 35 subscribers right now. I would say I know about 30 of them, either by direct contact in one thread or another or by their positings on threads that I have read but never participated in.
The subscriber with the most number of posts has some 34,000 submissions. The subscriber (whom I don't know) with the fewest number of posts is a person of few words. 18 posts in total.
Where DID the 50,000 strong membership list go? It was available a week or so ago.

Lol!

Nah, that is a Cravenism.

You would be familiar with age/agement if Craven still came to play.

As in boobage.

I am confused about it all now.


I think Boobage would be a verb.


Boobagement would be the noun.

Hmmm, I use it as a noun.

Now quaffage I can parse a bit better...

I always preferred breastacles, anyhoo.

There's that.

E.G. has taken it up, along with matriarchical.

Thanks loads, Craven.

I mean MATRONIZING.

Had to squint at that one.

Is it bad if you've gotten to the point where invented words and real ones are interchangeable?

Ha!, I, I believe, made matronizing up, NOT Craven.


He accused me of being patronizing, re his typos, in a chat, and I said I weren't being, if anything I was being matronizing.

It has spread.