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I've bought a SomethingAwful account and I used to be a paid member of the old Encyclopedia Dramatica forums.

(and you could say i pay for my kym account because i gotta look at all your shitty posts lol)

Have you ever paid for membership online? Do you think you ever will? If KYM had an option to be a paid member would you buy it?

>internet connection
>2010+3
>paying for anything

Paying websites?

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Other than the ten bucks we're all sending RandomMan each month for all this? You guys are all sending RandomMan a monthly payment, right? It's not just me?

I used to be a paid member of DelphiForums, partially because you had to be a paid member if you wanted to host a forum, and I hosted four of them. One of the few things that Delphi did right was that they allowed anyone to use the forums for free, but gave you special privileges (like using html in posts) if you paid extra. I think that's a good business model. There's rarely been anything I've seen online I felt like paying to use, though. Products? Sure. Websites? There's usually a free alternative that's just as good.

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Never paid to be a member of anything.

AdventureQuest about 5 years ago and my membership remains. Does that count?

I payed for Toontown and Runescape for about 2 years. Dark times. I haven't ever payed for any non-game website though.

I've never paid to be a member of any website.

You know, I'd like to ask a related question.

A while back, I gave a link to the Humble Bundle. For those not familiar, it's a website where you can buy independently-developed video games at the price of your choosing. You also can choose a portion of your payment to go to charity.

One of the few things I've paid for online was a comic that had a micropayment system attached to it. The artist asked people to read the comic and then pay what they felt like paying. It was a good comic, and I gave the artist a dollar.

I like the donation system. When I was in college, I used to host a party at my house every Friday evening. While I didn't supply alcohol, I did supply coffee (with cream and sugar) and snacks, and had a tip jar. I usually came out even without ever asking anyone to donate. I think voluntary payment works.

How many of you have paid for something that was payment-optional? What do you think about such systems of payment?

Well I did buy a humble bundle if that counts. Although those aren't technically payment optional, I did choose to donate 25 dollars as opposed to 1

Well, I donate to Wikipedia if they ask. It's the least I can do.