If I may pose a question:

How does your party intend to adress the need for increased funding in order to cover the costs that will be incurred as brickfilms.com (and it’s affiliated sites, such as the podcast site) become more popular and greater hosting and bandwidth requirements arise?

And could you provide a sample of what your intended anti-spam policy could be?

Ha ha, I actually used NeXT computers my first year in college. I hope your party runs smoother than those junkers…

“An Old Ore” wrote: If I may pose a question:

How does your party intend to adress the need for increased funding in order to cover the costs that will be incurred as brickfilms.com (and it’s affiliated sites, such as the podcast site) become more popular and greater hosting and bandwidth requirements arise?

In the future we’d like to work on bringing in more advertising revenue as well as a revamp of the Patrons section to provoke more donations. Most definitely, the Brickfilms Store (Merch) would be cleaned up and re-opened to initiate new income which will allow us to continue to host the site as well as expand Brickfilms into new places.

“Dewfilms” wrote: [quote="Pierre Films"]As for the forums, we believe that it should be left open and free as it has been since the beginning,

Could you expound on this please?[/quote]

“An Old Ore” wrote: And could you provide a sample of what your intended anti-spam policy could be?

The Brickfilms forums have always been open in that they’re not policed with dozens of overly-strict rules that would otherwise diminish the experience. To even further openness, Brickfilms introduced a “Lively Discussion Forum” for us to openly discuss topics that might be a bit too much for community forums. We believe this is the right direction to go and would like to stay on that path.

As for an anti-spam policy, Brickfilms has been fortunate enough not to get the number of troll members/spam ‘bots’ that can bee seen on other forums of this size. As good as that may be, I would like to see better control over how SPAM is quickly controlled and removed from the forums. Some of our moderators, Z for instance, are very good at addressing SPAM issues. Other, whom I will not name, seem to think it best to let the topic die out itself while allowing members to continue to post messages and images stating that the SPAM is in-fact…SPAM. Unfortunately that does nothing more than to create more SPAM and waste forum bandwidth ($$). Language in the forums is an occasional issue and due to the small amount of occurrences I believe our current system of handling it is satisfactory (censoring the offending word(s) and warning the member).

“Schlockading” wrote: I support this party! Count me in.

Wonderful! Welcome Schlockading.

Pierre Films

What is your plan and/or view on the current FAQ situation, as it appears that some members feel there is a need for change in this area? (would you put a question mark after that sentence?)
I know that you can’t have everything figured out now, but can you outline some of your advertising/patron-revamping ideas?
And to a slightly less serious question…this won’t mean we have an Apple Logo of any sort attached to this site, will it?

I’d like to be added to this party.

“Pierre Films” wrote: I’d like to either do a complete revamp of the FAQ and/or find a way to integrate it into the Resources/Wiki in a very user-friendly “Welcome to Brickfilms: Lets get started!” sort of way.

As FAQ moderator, I am enthusiastic about getting the FAQ back in shape. I am pleased that one party has recognized this important need and is willing to speak out publicly.

Please add me to the NeXT roster.

This party sucks. Join this one instead.

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