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Offline Captain Blood

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Updated LAF rules and supporting member donations
« on: January 26, 2020, 05:24:57 PM »
REVISED FORUM RULES

After a long period of redrafting and consideration by the forum's owners and the moderator team, the forum's rules have been revised and updated.
There shouldn't be anything controversial in there - they are essentially an update of the previous rules, tidied up a little and with some out-of-date points and references removed.
Please take a few minutes to look through them. Thank you.

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=122307.0


DONATIONS AND SUPPORTING MEMBERS

Many people enjoy participating in this forum. Some LAF members choose to show their appreciation by making the occasional small contribution via PayPal towards the running costs of the forum.
This doesn’t buy any special rights or privileges – although supporting members do get a jazzy badge added to their forum profile.

Please note, it's been at least four years since the Prof last took donations, so the former Supporting Adventurer medals reflected people's generosity from several years ago!
All the old medals have therefore been removed to provide a new level playing field.
All new donations will henceforth receive the new 'Supporting member' medal.

All such donations, their amounts and frequency, are strictly down to the discretion and generosity of individual members. Every little helps, but we emphasise that there is absolutely no expectation that people should or must contribute. It’s entirely up to you.

That said, where individuals or companies running hobby-related businesses regularly promote their products or services through this forum, a donation towards the running costs would be seen as polite. We would encourage wargames business owners to consider whether it’s fair that many ordinary LAF members choose to help towards the running costs of the forum, whereas some hobby businesses and traders who use the forum as a free shop window for their wares, see no reason to.

The PayPal donation button can be found in the left hand navigation panel, and also in the top nav.

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Updated LAF rules and supporting member donations
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2023, 11:49:24 AM »
Please note, we have slightly updated the forum rules to include a new rule, 2.14, as follows:

2.14 Requests for financial support

Sorry, but charity or other requests to send or pledge money in whatever apparent good cause are not allowed on this forum. First, this is a forum for people to share their wargaming hobby projects and activities without being pestered for cash, and second, it’s impossible to verify the veracity or validity of each request soliciting funds. So please don’t post those sorts of requests for people to send money here, because they will be removed.


We have seen a gradual increase in posts soliciting financial support to individuals and businesses. These are invariably well-intentioned and in a good cause, but for the reasons stated above, after much consideration, we have decided against allowing those requests for money on the forum. Hence the new rule.