Originally Posted by Anzudime

This idea might seem a bit off-the-wall, but it may help in giving a few extra bucks to the site. If MFG has any talented artists, they could do comissions for a small price that wouldn't be paid to them, but go towards helping the site costs. If we got really serious about it, I'm a musician. I could make theme songs or something for people's RPG characters if they were willing to pay a bit more for a full piece of music composed from scratch, specifically for them.

Here's another idea for gold donators. You remember on the old MFG, how members had those little blue squares under their rank? An option would be being able to customize them by using your own little graphics for it. Here's another idea for customization. I've seen other boards do this, and it looked really neat - being able to skin your own posts. Like, whenever you make a post, the table your post is in could look different from other peoples', such as the background, text color, font, and other things. If you changed your post skin, all of the posts you've made so far would change to the new skin.

Here's another one. Make one small banner ad appear on the top of every page on the forum; something reasonably small, like 500x75 or something. This would show up for everybody, including gold members - however, the ads wouldn't be from unrelated businesses and shit we're not interested in. The ads would ONLY be made by members of MFG, and added to the roster to display at random. Say I wanted to advertise my site, Begrimed.com; I could make a 500x75 banner ad and pay a one-time price to have that banner appear on the top of the site. It's a good way to give yourself exposure, and people would be more interested in them since they're creations of members on the board, and not ads from big companies that nobody's going to click on anyway. That's something I'm sure at least a few people would be willing to pay for, especially site owners who want more traffic without all the bull.