• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

It's That Time...

Tom Clayton

Tom Clayton

Administrator
Staff member
OK people - it's that time again! You may have noticed a strange blue/red line at the top of every page. That's not there for decoration! Everyone here enjoys all the free downloads and free membership, but guess what? This site, despite what you might think, does NOT come cheap to its owners. How many other FS sites can you name that have anywhere near as much to offer without putting ads in your face on every page? I don't know about you, but I can't think of a single one! This annual donation drive is what keeps the lights on year after year. If you can't do $10 and you live in the States, you can snail-mail a paper check to Ickie - see this thread:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?91752

So... What do I get in return???

You mean besides the warm fuzzies you get from helping out the community you love so much? Well, you get higher download speeds and a higher daily limit from the SOH library, which just so happens to be where the vast majority of our costs come from. The bandwidth needed to load a forum page - even in the Screenshots thread, is a drop in the bucket compared to a fully tricked-out model package with a dozen paints.

You love getting, we love giving. We especially love being able to give without putting banners all over the page like bumper stickers on a California Microbus! We are the best on the web - please, help keep it that way!
 
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Tom,

And not to continue beating around the bush, but by donating toward the fundraising goal you allow SOH to continue its existence. If we don't get the yearly bandwith drive met, the decisions that would have to be made could extend as far as pulling the plug.

We try to avoid having ads and other roadblocks to downloading like other sites do, but the only way that works is to meet our financial needs.

Remember, many hands make light work.
 
No problem Pete - whenever you're able. The deadline is mid-Feb, so the first of the month will be plenty of time. :encouragement:
 
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