Author: Mario Antonio F.
Date: 16:59:04 09/29/04
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On September 29, 2004 at 18:27:01, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Just as curiosity I would like to know how many poster wold be prepared to pay a >yearly fee to keep running CCC and CTF. >I am talking just of the people that currently come here, read and answers post, >the people we all know and is known by everybody, the real members in fact. >Fdo I think it can be possible to organize a free or almost free forum somewhere. The costs that were posted time ago reflects activities like 24/7 support that frankly is found difficult to believe. The majority of the work is related to moderation and, as I understand, the moderators do not charge anything. Additionaly, the most valuable asset of the forum does not come from the maintainers of the forum, but from the people that use the forum. It is priceless to read comments from Dr. Hyatt, Ed Schröder and many, many others that love the field of computer chess (Tournament organizers, engine authors, test position finders, people asking, announcers of new (and old) software, etc). Who is going to pay them all? There is not enough money to pay such contribution! An account on ICC costs $50.00 US a year and it is way more complex to maintain than this forum. The majority of the members may not want to contribute (and potential new members will not enter). Maybe we need to offer more help to ICD to maintain this forums with technical volunteers or start looking for a forum somewhere else. Another idea for ICD would be to add a link into their site when certain keywords are mentioned. For instance, someone talks about chessbase, then there may be a link on that word that can transport the user to that product selling on ICD. This can count as advertisement for them and keep the forum free. Let us conceive more ideas, please.
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