[Kevin Sevcik]

I'm all for donating to CD. I too am hopelessly addicted, and atleast I'd feel good about supporting CD instead of buying one of those PSPs I've been drooling over.

Perhaps we should look around at other forums and their donation policies? I've seen anywhere from mandatory donations to post at all, donator only sections, special titles for donators, and absolutely no recognition of donations. For CD, I would lean toward the special titles/privledges for donators. Maybe donators get to have slightly larger avatars or something, more stored PMs, or the donator badge idea.. (Badges? We don't need no stinking badges....) I'd lean away from the donation rep bars, since that just seems divisive and elitest. Enough people argue about the normal rep bars as it is.... Whatever incentive gets put in place shouldn't really cost money, however. Buttons for showing off at competitions would be really nifty, but producing and mailing them would cut into the money that should be going to get us better servers and such. Maybe some printable certificate or sticker that you could print onto your own sticker paper?

At any rate, what would definitely be helpful is if CD set a donation goal and had a bar for us to track our progress or something. Then have a yearly donation run where the bar goes up and people are gently reminded it's time to donate again. Probably two weeks before kickoff when everyone's off and swarming CD with rumors anyways.