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NOS2Go4Me,May 12 2005, 04:24 PM Wrote:I guess I'm not done.

If this place turns into FJ... I'm gone.

There's a sense of real community here that you'll never find on the Jet, partly because we're Canadian. This is THE Canadian Focus club, and rightfully so.

Again, if everyone wants to treat this place like the Jet, then it WILL end up like the Jet with nothing but trash-talking newbs, large bills, and large ads to pay the bills. There's what, 5 guys in the SPI forum that are hardcore members, and 30-40 in the main tuning areas? That's sad. We're close to that here with a fraction of the membership because this place is QUALITY, not quantity.

I'm trying to understand everyone's abhorrence of an optional support system. If you don't like it, don't support it. No one is twisting your arm in the matter.

What I had come up with was an idea where anyone could sponsor a draw for contributing members. This responsibility wouldn't just fall with company sponsors (although their support would be cool) but contributing members if they so desired. Flo's Stanley Cup draw that I won my awesome door pull covers comes to mind - they're still my fave interior item, period :D The idea behind the draw was that more contributing members meant a better server / better reliability and a more active community.

I'm all for it personally, and I was/am more than ready to sponsor a month's draw for (insert item here). Maybe it's just my nature, maybe I view money as something different than the rest of you. I currently co-sponsor and co-host North Bay's most successful LAN party in years (last 6 anyways). We've got store sponsorship and a new location as of July as well. Every other month I sponsor $30-40 dollars' worth of store merchandise from our sponsor's store as a free door prize. On alternating months, the owners do the same. I've actually won once in 6 months. :)

Again, it's what I like to do (support community-minded events and organizations) so my view on it is largely different than most by the looks of all of it.

Rather than bitch about people, I ought to just respect their ideas and beliefs.

Actually, I've got some more even WACKIER ideas
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Nobody said this place would turn into the Jet. I'm positive there are a good number of guys on here that would die trying NOT to let this place end up that way.

If this place ends up like the Jet, I'm the first one out of here. As it stands, this place runs on it's own, whay mess with it. If you want to funnel a couple of clams to Jay once in a while, please do.

I would be the first guy to send scratch to Jay if he needed it.

Just realx, sit back and enjoy FC.