How important is making money to you?

[MasterA]

How important is it to you that your forum/website is making money?

 

[Joshua Farrell]

It is not important enough to really have to do for me all the time, but important enough so that I can cover all the costs I put aside for running the forum.

 

[CM30]

Not hugely important. For instance, I don't ever plan to run ads on my Wario site, since it's purely for the fans.

I won't object to making some more cash though, so long as it the means fits the site in question.

 

[Rich Edmonds]

Not important to me at all. Since I work the costs are covered on my end. That said, I do like to reach a point where communities can be sustained by donations (and/or premium memberships of some sort).

 

[THF_Martin]

Not important. I tend to use running sites as a way to create a portfolio which I then use to generate sales for my freelance services. So the actual forums themselves don't need to make any money. It would be great if they did but I am not too bothered.

 

[SkidHax]

Fairly important as it is expensive to run my forum

 

[Varlot]

It's not that important, as long as I make the wheels turn. If I don't go broke from running my forum, I'm happy.

 

[cyimking]

Very important to me. No overly important where the whole entire site is filled with spam but important to make sure that I implement ways to make a good profit. If your website does end up becoming popular then you will end up trying to make profit anyways... might as well implement a system early to maximise profit.

 

[Scribbler397]

Relatively important, since I would like to be able to cover my costs of running the forum so I can continue to do so.

 

[Allenafaith]

It's not important to me at all. I don't do it for the money, I do it for fun.

 

[Jesus]

Everyone here is a liar.
Everyone loves the money, even if they don't want to act like it.

I know it costs a lot to run some forums around here, but it is still fun to get some extra money

 

[Platipoo]

It's quite important for me if I want to keep going on since I got bored fast, so I need incentive.

 

[Thomasss]

I don't care either way, I am in it for the community. Money is nice however I would rather have a awesome community rather than a bunch of money. It's not really important to me, money is money, and it's pretty tight for most people out there so going into making a community you should know you won't be getting a bunch of money. 😛

 

[Sharon]

Money would be fantastic but I work on forums/websites for fun. For some reason if I focused on making money too much it will start feeling like work.

 

[MasterA]

For people who say they do it for fun, what is fun about running a forum and what gives you the incentive to keep running your forum regardless of downturns?

 

[Thomasss]

For people who say they do it for fun, what is fun about running a forum and what gives you the incentive to keep running your forum regardless of downturns?

The community. I mean sure money is awesome and it's something you should always try to pursue, however when you legitimately care for the community, for the people in it, that is a payoff. To give members that sense of community that they might not have in their own life is the payoff, that is why I do it for fun, because I can help people through it. That's my payoff, and it goes further than money could.