08-30-2005, 08:08 PM
Agreed on both parts with Soni. Many/Most people who submit(ted) to the DaD also submit to the DHZ (which is well-known and free). Additionally, the DaD isn't exactly at a peak in terms of submissions. If you add to that that people will have the "Pay once, leech everything while I have access" mentality, it will kill the bandwidth and the future of the site instantly.
So I really doubt that a payment system like that would work. An incentive-driven system ("Will write for money") might work, but (1) it's not stable, and somebody would have to pay the difference between donations and server price and (2) you'd have to have dedicated people to write/draw since you'd be more strictly bound than with regular requests in terms of speed and quality.
The suggested price per month had been pushed down to about 15$ (which is about the equivalent of one regular CD, or two budget CDs, depending on artist :P), assuming that the traffic stays in the same dimensions it is in right now (taking down the dojins had lowered the traffic by a good amount). I guess that depending on what you do with it, 15-20(+) should be a number to calculate with, even though I'm in no position to make any fixed predictions, of course.
So I really doubt that a payment system like that would work. An incentive-driven system ("Will write for money") might work, but (1) it's not stable, and somebody would have to pay the difference between donations and server price and (2) you'd have to have dedicated people to write/draw since you'd be more strictly bound than with regular requests in terms of speed and quality.
The suggested price per month had been pushed down to about 15$ (which is about the equivalent of one regular CD, or two budget CDs, depending on artist :P), assuming that the traffic stays in the same dimensions it is in right now (taking down the dojins had lowered the traffic by a good amount). I guess that depending on what you do with it, 15-20(+) should be a number to calculate with, even though I'm in no position to make any fixed predictions, of course.