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I don't know why everyone says we don't get perks, that one thread that's 1000 pages long...... My Word, those femme fatals emit vapor off of their epidermis!

Also, Nekarta Screnia HECKTONLA!

Where is the 1000 page long thread?

Pay your $25 and see, youngblood!

Monster Rain wrote:Pay your $25 and see, youngblood!

You could try recreating such a thread in the public forums.

Of course, Alph may not like the competition...

Sometimes you get to win free stuff, so there's that. I won the LE FW Boarding Marine, which I then sold to another DCM for its $20 face value, after deciding that there was no way I was going to use 3 of them (changed from 3 planned SM armies to 1 using 3 codecies)

Also - the DakkaDakka Dice. I have close to 100 of the things now - they are truly awesome

Also - the fact that for a free website, it has a stupendous Pic Gallery and Tutorials for both the new and old(players ) can be loaded up with instructional Vids/Pics.

I donate the $25 to support a website that supports me and my Hobby needs.

That, and I like the Hawtness thread....

And as has been stated numerous times - no leeway for Forum rules for us - we are just as easily 'disciplined' as the next poster.

I actually enjoy being 'disciplined'. I'll show you my straps and buckles Later

There are also occasional beta features that are tested out on the DCM's before they go "public" (or perhaps to determine if they go public).

Personally I like the more laid back posting of the DCM forum compared to the regular forum.

I don't really go on the DCM "Big 3" threads (I think there are 3 of them but I can't be bothered to go and check), though I understand that they may keen some DCM's busy

To me, the $25 dollars was well worth it.

I'm supporting a site I really, REALLY, REALLY like/frequent. Even without the DCM perks I would have donated. I do that for other sites/organizations I feel are worth the donation. The DCM stuff is just icing on the cake for me.

Aside from my personal reasons here are some reasons that might be worth it:

-You get another sub-forum that has its own feel to it (sometimes you get a cool 'think tank' vibe off of some topics... and things 'seem' more mature)
-You get the option for personal titles
-There's a 1000+ page topic that is 'interesting' (overrated)
-There's a similar topic that is also 'interesting' ('similar' content; also overrated)

I keep donating my shillings because if I don't legoburner will be forced to live in a cardboard box and the only IT he will get to play with is a 286 PC with a tape drive.

And yakface will have to drink martinis that are stirred, not shaken; STIRRED! Dear God, no, the humanity,...

For those of you curious, here are the titles of some of the topics in the DCM forum:

My wife is a bit irritated and Waffles.

Weiner Dog Legions with Waffles.

DCM's What do you think of the New'crons and Waffles?

New DCM Shout out here, your Waffle recipes.

In fact, the only thread I can see that is locked is:

Roll your face on your keyboard thread, while eating Pancakes.

And that one DESERVED IT! PANCAKES! How dare he?!?

My wife is a bit irritated and waffle. Lol.

There's much too much spilling of secrets in this thread.

DCMs, we should all retire to our Ivory Tower to sip brandy and snack on waffles.

You can keep your brandy, I only eat my waffles while drinking a Mable Syrup Martini.

Well, I pay my money just to cover my own bandwidth, of which I use an enormous amount. $25 a year for reliable webhosting of all my spacemans is worth it for me alone.

There really are not any bonuses for being a DCM, nor should there be. The stated goal of Dakka Dakka was to be the best wargaming site on the internet. Part of that mission statement is making sure any feature or development is rolled out to everyone.

That's right, baby. I'm a Terminator with a Plasma Cannon.

Being a DCM is worth about as much as you want to get out of it, the perks you get as well as the extra forum are in my view worth way more then the 25 bucks a year. As others have said I would donate to the site simply because I enjoy it and running a site is a pretty thankless job so anything I can do to help is good.

Also 25 bucks isn't a whole lot of cheddar. If you can spare it I'd absolutely recommend it.

I really want to support the Dakka community, and thats about it.

Ogryn wrote:I really want to support the Dakka community, and thats about it.

tons of great ways to support the community, you can become a DCM and donate cash to the community or if your looking for other ways I'd highly recommend getting involved in the painting and modeling section of the forum. There is never a shortage of people looking for advice or feedback on something there working on!

I like giving advice to painting, although I am a bad painter myself.

Ogryn wrote:I like giving advice to painting, although I am a bad painter myself.

The gallery could always use more votes, and the image tags could always use fixing.

Haha, I tend to vote as much as I can.

Grakmar's point about the gallery is important, I think. If you think Dakka deserves support, there are several ways to go about it and only one requires money.

Personally, I don't have hobby funds right now that I could even consider diverting towards a donation. Instead, I try my best to give thorough and informative answers to questions (even if it feels like I'm answering the same five or so questions over and over again ) and honest feedback in the P&M forum (my main forum). I've slackened, of late, due to a dead computer limiting my Dakka time, but for a while I also did a lot of voting and tag adding/editing for the gallery (so much, in fact, that the votes stopped registering in my count for a while).

Sure, money is a big help, but don't ignore all the other things you can do to improve the site beyond donating. The way I see it, if you're willing to do that much to ensure quality content is available on Dakka without any expectation of perks (hell, even a "thanks, you really helped" PM is a rare (and beautiful) thing), that's good enough. You don't need a custom title to be a valuable contributing member of Dakka.

Ogryn wrote:I like giving advice to painting, although I am a bad painter myself.

I don't think you need to be a great painter to give advice here since the vast majority of questions that come in here are not about Golden Daemon-level techniques. I'm certainly an average at best painter, but I feel eminently qualified to answer questions such as such as "should I prime my models", "how do I paint yellow", "Do I need to thin my paints", "What is dipping", etc etc etc.

Walt Disney could only render a passable Mickey Mouse with his own pencil, but that didn't stop him from being able to guide his more-talented employees into making his visions a reality, and I think the same principle applies here.

Slarg232 wrote:For those of you curious, here are the titles of some of the topics in the DCM forum:

My wife is a bit irritated and Waffles.

Weiner Dog Legions with Waffles.

DCM's What do you think of the New'crons and Waffles?

New DCM Shout out here, your Waffle recipes.

In fact, the only thread I can see that is locked is:

Roll your face on your keyboard thread, while eating Pancakes.

And that one DESERVED IT! PANCAKES! How dare he?!?

You are forgetting the massively popular "NSFW (Not Safe For Waffes): I can't help myself. Hot waffles."

Since I prefer crepes, I really don't find much to post about in the DCM forum.

Monster Rain wrote:Since I prefer crepes, I really don't find much to post about in the DCM forum.

So you are one of our few Dakka Crepes Members then...

Genuinely, the DCM 'mosh pit' isn't Ivory tower is some exclusive clique where the aristocracy and elite of DakkaGW hang out, it's a place where everyone sits there and criticises there regular customers whilst drinking from crystal glasses filled with the tears of GW fans, and it's certainly 'a little private house club for people to snipe at people behind their backs'.

Fixed that for ya.

I guess it boils down to " Is Dakka worth donating to?". Do I have to money to spare? I think dakka is worth it I just don't have the extra cash on hand. =o[

Maybe I should stop giving my money to gaming companys?..

That fix just made it an untrue statement.

That's not a fix at all. That's breaking it.

Way to break it, Mike.

I'm GW elite?

I've officially made it.

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

Genuinely, the DCM 'mosh pit' isn't Ivory tower is some exclusive clique where the aristocracy and elite of DakkaGW hang out, it's a place where everyone sits there and criticises there regular customers whilst drinking from crystal glasses filled with the tears of GW fans, and it's certainly 'a little private house club for people to snipe at people behind their backs'.

Fixed that for ya.

My assumption is that you're just trying to make a joke, but other readers may not catch on.

So, I'll reiterate that the Mosh Pit is mainly full of the same type of conversations going on in the rest of Dakka (i.e. see what happened to me today, look at my army/conversion/cute walrus, inane conversations, favorite music/family member/friend/new product/sandwich cheese, etc.). The only significant differences are advance notice on Dakka changes or projects, far less trolls and oxygen thieves, and the iron rule that DCMs cannot criticize non-DCMs in the Pit. Violation of that rule results in a thread lock faster than you can prep a new Finecast model for painting.

As for the joke about all DCMs favoring GW, that is hilarious. Many DCMs have boycotted GW purchases this year. I'm not one of them and will gladly add another five to six more IG vehicles this year, but I'm in the minority.