is it cheating...

[Bartman]

is it cheating if you get another profile to upload more pics?
Im not doing it but i wont lie, i obviously thought about it

[Siretsap]

I wouln't consider it cheating if you still use both profiles, not only use it for pics.
but I think they have a list of ip's so if you do do it, you gotta create more ip's if they ever only allow you one account.

[Bartman]

So if i had two computers..i could do it? Or if my sister used one profile and i used this one (bartman)

[marisa]

Or you could simply pay and upgrade your account if you need photohosting.

Marisa

[Sunrunner]

Its cheating.

[SerpentLust]

Or you could just get a photobucket.com account and upload pics there when you run out of room in your gallery

[Matt_K]

Howcome everyone is so quick to promote free photo hosting sites?? What's so bad about spending the few bucks and getting a photo account here??? The money goes towards the site, and you obviously use it..

[Stav.T]

As marisa & sunrunner said, I would pay to upgrade my account for more space if you need more.
I can imagin how much it cost to run this site and how much time the owner must spend on it. I wouldent like to pay the bill if you get what i mean. Its a fantastic site so why not encourage it. Just think of the "Free" classifieds here. You have to pay for an account in K.S.com......

As far as i'm concerned, i'm gonna pay and put my website here as soon as it is finished. ( Poisonous is making it ;)

Stav

[ohh_kristina]

buy a photo account on the site! I did and I love it. It's an excuse to take more pictures of the snakelings.

[Lisa]

the problem with free offsite photohosting is often they have limits on how you can link to their pics or how often you can view the photos. or they add crap to your photo like their name.

Oh and it's cheating to set up multiple accounts to get more photohosting.

[Vengeance]

Actually setting up this site could technically cost the person nothing if they had the equipment already. All you really need is a good firewall, the know how to set it up, a public ip address with a high bandwidth line....... actually the more that I think about it hosting you own webiste is actually more expensive then it usually is to rent web space. I know my GF rents webspace and I don't think it is costing her more then $100 - $150 per year for the space. She also has a pretty similar setup, same type of message board and what not. As long as you don't get charged for the bandwidth usage hosting costs for this type of message board are quite minimal.

But all that being being said, I don't think it would be a big deal to throw $20 to the site to help it out.

[Lisa]

Vengeance: Many low cost providers have limits on how much bandwidth you can use in a month, plus i don't know if you've perused the gallery but there's gigabites of photos in there. Also there's the space for the message them selves. I know they don't take up much on their own but have you seen the number of messages ssnakess has? I remember when Jeff had just a webspace instead of a whole dedicated machine... the site could barely keep up and that was what? 6 months to a year ago? The site's grown by leaps and bounds since then.

[mykee]

I would help keep THIS site up and running by getting more photo space here.

[Bartman]

So at the next show (when is by the way feb 20th?) ill give jeff 20 bucks and thats it..i need to upload pics :)

[xxbad]

do what evers cheapest wrong or right

[Bartman]

I dont agree with that...

[Bartman]

If i give jeff, 20 bucks right?, would i get a site supporter cup or no? I kind of like my stars :p

[xxbad]

cmon your not gonna get caught everybodys does it
p.s im the devil

[Bartman]

:D

[xxbad]

i can tell u arent easily tempted damn jesus everyone is on his side

[MouseKilla]

I'll be the first to admit that I don't have the first clue what it costs to run a website but in all honesty I don't especially care either. Vengeance is talking about it being potentially very cheap, almost neglegible in cost, I've heard others talking about Jeff shelling out thousands to build and maitain this site, again I don't know what it costs. That's not my role to worry about that, I'm the consumer.

The way I see it photohosting and ad space are things that will get people to go to the trouble of registering but not much more, which is why this site has 3,000 plus members and only a handful pay for the extra photohosting. Don't get me wrong here, this is the hands down best herp site there is but there is no way there would be anywhere near the same number of members if you couldn't join without paying. It's like television, you can have a successful show with lots of viewers like Friends, but it wouldn't be that successful if it didn't just show up on the TV, if you had to pay for every episode it would fail, Courtney Cox just isn't that hot (or naked for that matter). This site is like Courtney Cox, if it's free you'll have an audience but that's only half of what it takes to keep the show on the air or the site online.

The other component, the other half of course is money. Courtney don't come cheap but the whole thing fails if you expect the audience to keep it going. Why would they do that when there are so many free shows out there? Think of the biggest, most profitable sites out there: Yahoo, Hotmail, any music sharing site... any of them, how much do they cost for you to use?Nothing!

This is where advertising space comes in. In TV-land the bigger the audience a show attracts the more companies have to pay for ad space during that show (it's about $50,000/ second during the SuperBowl). The same should happen on a website that draws an increasingly bigger membership or audience, the ad space should cost proportionately more because the ads reach more people and generate more revenue for those businesses that advertise there.

Television has shown this is the only way to draw an audience and pay the bills at the same time. Expect the audience to pay everytime they watch the show and the show will invariably fail, the same thing will happen to a website if it tries to draw it's revenue from the wrong source.

I personally may drop the $20 or whatever it is just to be able to show off my pics but if I do that is the only reason I will do it, not because I feel I'm taking advantage of anyone by coming here and being part of the audience that gives the ad space value. I hope the owners make a fortune off this site because they deserve to for making the best site around but if they do make money it will be because they have the business sense to know where the money is and I gotta tell you that it isn't in my pocket.

[xxbad]

do the cheapest thing