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- Thread starter Daddicus
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Primarily: It keeps the board going. At the moment, it just barely pays for itself.
Secondarily: blog space and extra PM space. If you do PBP, a moot member can get limited mod privs for a subforum; most useful for the GM. (note: I will NOT assign such privs to a non-moot-member.)
Tertiarily: The Political Pulpit and Audience Hall subforums. Everything in Audience hall echoes to Marc via Email.
1) yes, by uploading it in your profile.
2) yes, subject to staff approval - we have to be the ones to enter it, tho'. Autofails for approval: offensive language, real world term that correlates to a higher title than paid for, implies affiliation with a publisher (unless I happen to know you are affiliated with said publisher), or disses any edition of Traveller, 2300, T2K, or Sp.1889.
Oh, and for equivalent rank titles, I'll be using the SCA's lists (http://heraldry.sca.org/titles.html), simply because they are readily accessible, well researched and include a variety of languages Papworth missed. Plus, i used to be a rostered West Kingdom herald.
pendragonman
Absent Friends Margrave
I see no SCA equivalent for Marquis
Margrave is "Border Count"... more literally, "Marches-count." Well, Marches Graffin to be pedantic.
I may allow it to use the other D rank's equivalent if I can't find "border" or "March" for the language.
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pendragonman
Absent Friends Margrave
I am aware, I was pointing out that I don't see it on the SCA page you are using for your short searches.
Also, this is me officially asking for my title to be Margrave
OK, I'll help. But, I don't know how to use PayPal. I have an account, but I haven't used it in years. Do I have to have money already in PayPal in order to buy my subscription? Or, does PayPal send me a bill?
The reason I ask is because I tried to put $50 into my account, but they want my social security number, which they're not getting. But, if they bill me, that would be fine, since just a credit card will do.
Thanks!
The reason I ask is because I tried to put $50 into my account, but they want my social security number, which they're not getting. But, if they bill me, that would be fine, since just a credit card will do.
Thanks!
There are ways to pay someone through paypal by giving them only your credit card information. I am in a similar situation to you, in that I have a (very old) PayPal account that I largely refuse to use because the PayPal corporation is evil.
If you select the links on the Moot Subscriptions page, this connects to PayPal. Then if you are reasonably carefully about selecting the links on the paypal site you can pay without creating an account or signing in.
Paypal can either bill your CC (which may or may not ask for the SSN) or debit your bank account (which if you are in the US, requires by federal law that they have your SSAN, because at that point, they are in fact opening a bank account for you, to do account to account transfers by wire).
The other option is to send a check to Marc with a note - include both your account name, which moot level, a contact email.
I have no memory of PayPal ever asking for an SSN for CC payment.
PayPal goes to great ends to hide that you can, in fact, pay for something with a credit card. You have make sure all of the options are expanded. If you just fast track through the screens, you'll feel you need to set up some permanent relationship with them, since that's their business model.
I may be wrong, I don't use it often and set up my account over 10 years ago.
Not to reflect anything on Marc, but, in general, sending a generic check out to anyone today is practically just handing you bank account over to them. Check fraud is just absolutely trivial today. I don't even send checks to family, I'll get a cashier check.
If you trust the person enough to send a check, you may as well trust them enough to acknowledge that they got the payment, and just send cash and limit your risk against accidental loss.
Any check today may as well be a "blank check".
Yours might be, but mine's not.
Probably signed up for before the 2004 banking rule changes, which now mandate all new CC's and bank accounts in the US have a SSAN on file.
Might not be in the US.
Paypal as a corporation is actually an international bank chartered in the US.
pendragonman
Absent Friends Margrave
Part of our Mootley Crue?
