Would you Donate to a Tracker if you got no "perks"?

[stoi]

well the star is back on BCG.

Before is was £10 for VIP and the bonuses you got, but early impressions are that more people are donating smaller amounts under the £10 than before, but the £10 donations have subsided a lot, but we are still getting a few and some for even more than that.

Suppose it will take a couple of months to see how it pans out though.

[grimms]

Like i stated previously if i like the tracker i would donate for zero perks also never hurts to donate for those that give you upload credit or a shiny star.

[Dark Archon]

I don't earn income at all...donations are bit much for me

[Actatoi]

If I were to donate it would be to the survival of the trackers I enjoy the most, content or community wise. For example TT, there content in what I love is just unreplacable so if I had the money on a paypal account and they needed money I would not hesitate to donate. Now I don't earn any income as the previous poster and am only a poor student and parents that wouldn't understand the thing about putting money into paypal to donate so I havn't donated to any site so far. But if I were to make money online in some way I would gladly donate to a few trackers.

[SaRkAsM]

I myself will not donate to just any site, don't really care about perks such as credits or anything special but atleast showing others members that your are a proud donor just can;t see how it hurts nor how you would even consider removing the star.

Also taking into consideration that sites such as BCG which have a bunch of users donating receive heavy amounts of donations which basically in one month can pay the server costs for a years worth just leaves you wondering you guys more than happily receive the money to " KEEP SITE ALIVE " and can't even say thank you.

[stoi]

1 month can pay the servers we have for 1 year

i wish, but no your wrong, just because we are a big site with a big user base does not mean we are raking it in. less than 0.5% of our users donate.

and sorry but i have a lot more things to do than sending the donators a PM, that does not mean i am not grateful for their donation though. We could send out an auto PM for donations, but they always sound hollow to me, and for a repeat donator they will get boring very fast.

[krunktastic]

As far as donations go, I am a firm believe that those who will donate will donate no matter what. I think the difference by adding a benefit to the donation not only trivializes the donation itself but creates a marginal increase in numbers. Stoi, I think that this is a really great idea that adds a stronger significance to the donation. Instead of people donating for personal gain, they are helping the site that you created, in turn helping other people.

This is what the bittorrent community is based upon: people sharing with other people, receiving only to give back.

[raj3186]

As a student, I never had a chance donate to a tracker but i contribute to a tracker by maintaining a 1:1 ratio

[Bucktoof]

I've donated to 5 trackers that I can remember as of this moment. A couple sites I did so only because of upload credit, and two sites were because I wanted to see them stay around (starting out) so I donated more. The other one I was just so happy to get the exclusive content that the tracker offers.

Honestly, I just like the donation star - but I like it when it's special to the tracker, like for example a site's favicon is put beside your username. Something to that effect. No other status or perks are necessary imo.

[Pzero]

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