Supporting Members are exactly what they sound like they are. In planning how to make The Praise and Worship Forum into a more content rich and viable community we need to be able to support the development cost, the hosting cost and maintenance costs over time. Supporting members become vested in the community by becoming a part of it in a larger way.
Being a Supporting Member offers you pride in being a part of the community; the ability to get larger private message box capacity, custom user titles and avatars that can add some personality to your user profile here. Many of these features are server-intensive, either in the space they take up or the extra horsepower needed by a server to accommodate them and still have fast access speeds.
Subscriptions for supporting memberships are a means of making sure that the site can survive financially. In essence, each level of supporting membership helps pay the basic costs and helps pay for the bandwidth needed for the features allowed for each level. The Praise and Worship Forum will be free for anyone who wants basic service on the website, including the ability to place ads in our Marketplace areas. No member will feel any sort of pressure to subscribe at any level. It’s completely up to you.
The following describes what Subscriptions are and what you get for them:
Praise and Worship Supporting Membership Levels
What is a “subscription”? It is a software-based system where a member can purchase certain privileges on for one full year. They do not auto renew. We have four different levels of membership:
Member: This is a totally free membership that allows members use search, and Private Messages. All you have to do is register. You will have a Private Message box capacity of 25 PMs for new members up to 100 for senior members based on your post count (as your posts increase, your membership level increases up to “Senior Member” at 500 posts)
Silver Supporting Member: The cost is $10 for a year and allows you an expanded Private Message box capacity of 150
Gold Supporting Member: The cost is $15 for a year and allows subscribers all of the Silver Supporting Member perks plus a 250 PM limit and a Standard Avatar.
Platinum Supporting Member: The cost is $20 for a year and allows you all the Gold Member Supporting perks plus a 500 PM limit and the ability to upload your own custom avatar to the forum.
Please note that if you are paying PayPal via an echeck, we don't receive the notification that changes a member to a subscribing member until the echeck clears PayPal! Also, in response to some questions asked, no, becoming a supporting member does NOT mean that you won't get infractions or a suspension if you break our rules. The same rules apply to everyone.