Hello,
I'm trying out a new forum. I've never done this before, so it's a completely new experience, and it's been a little slow in terms of activity on my new forum, but I want to give it a try for a certain time period. (And I want to say the Forumotion staff has been very nice and very helpful to this novice, so thank you!)
In mid-May of this year, I spent 500 credits to pay for 6 months of no ads for my members (so no ads up to mid-November 2016 for members). So at the time, I didn't spend credits to get rid of ads for my guests, but I now would like to do that, since the ads that appear while on the mobile phones can test one's patience. So I planned to spend 500 credits today to remove the ads for guests, thinking that it would buy me 6 months of no ads from now to about the end of December 2016.
However, there was no option to spend the credits just for guests, and instead, some of the credits were used to remove ads for guests from today until August 29, 2016 (3 months) and half of the credits were used to extend the period to remove ads for members (from mid-November when the ad-free period was set to expire, to mid-January 2017).
Is there a way I could designate the credits I spent today to remove ads solely for guests (to buy 6 months of ad-free time for guests only, as I did when I spent 500 credits in May for 6 months of ad-free time for members only), instead of splitting the the time period in half 50% (3 months) for guests and 50% (3 months) for members? It doesn't make sense that every time I spend credits, the time period expires for guests 4.5 months before they expire for members, since ideally, one would want to have roughly the same time period to be ad-free for everyone at the same time. I basically want the guests to come closer to "catching up" with the members, because I rather not allow the guests to have to deal with the ads for the time gap between the guests (ad-free period expires for guests August 29) and the members (ad-free period expires for members mid-January 2017).
I would have to keep spending 500 credits every 3 months (instead of every 6 months) to remove the ads for guests, because of the lack of option, because I am compelled to use half of those credits to extend time for members (when I'm not sure if I want to spend the credits for that extension). Sorry, I'm not sure if I'm conveying clearly what I'm trying to say.
Thank you in advance for your help.
I'm trying out a new forum. I've never done this before, so it's a completely new experience, and it's been a little slow in terms of activity on my new forum, but I want to give it a try for a certain time period. (And I want to say the Forumotion staff has been very nice and very helpful to this novice, so thank you!)
In mid-May of this year, I spent 500 credits to pay for 6 months of no ads for my members (so no ads up to mid-November 2016 for members). So at the time, I didn't spend credits to get rid of ads for my guests, but I now would like to do that, since the ads that appear while on the mobile phones can test one's patience. So I planned to spend 500 credits today to remove the ads for guests, thinking that it would buy me 6 months of no ads from now to about the end of December 2016.
However, there was no option to spend the credits just for guests, and instead, some of the credits were used to remove ads for guests from today until August 29, 2016 (3 months) and half of the credits were used to extend the period to remove ads for members (from mid-November when the ad-free period was set to expire, to mid-January 2017).
Is there a way I could designate the credits I spent today to remove ads solely for guests (to buy 6 months of ad-free time for guests only, as I did when I spent 500 credits in May for 6 months of ad-free time for members only), instead of splitting the the time period in half 50% (3 months) for guests and 50% (3 months) for members? It doesn't make sense that every time I spend credits, the time period expires for guests 4.5 months before they expire for members, since ideally, one would want to have roughly the same time period to be ad-free for everyone at the same time. I basically want the guests to come closer to "catching up" with the members, because I rather not allow the guests to have to deal with the ads for the time gap between the guests (ad-free period expires for guests August 29) and the members (ad-free period expires for members mid-January 2017).
I would have to keep spending 500 credits every 3 months (instead of every 6 months) to remove the ads for guests, because of the lack of option, because I am compelled to use half of those credits to extend time for members (when I'm not sure if I want to spend the credits for that extension). Sorry, I'm not sure if I'm conveying clearly what I'm trying to say.
Thank you in advance for your help.