Originally posted by RaysOfLight
so i ask you, what benefit would i receive if i made a tutorial and put it in the VIP section, as compared to the Free section?
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You can't upload a tutorial to any section. The people that create tutorials for us get paid wages. Thus allowing them to do such trivial things as buy food. This cost is then passed back to the customer.
Originally posted by RaysOfLight
so what is it on this site, that makes the VIP tutorials worth paying for when you are a beginner, as opposed to going out and buying a full and proper book on the software you use?
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Most people find it easier to follow a series of video tutorials than they do to follow a book (although if as you suggest knowledge was free there wouldn't be any books to buy). It's horses for courses if you find learning from a book easier, I can recommend several good ones.
Originally posted by RaysOfLight
it's a base principle of mine, that knowledge should come at a price, BUT, not a monetary one.
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It would be nice if the world worked this way sadly It does not. I pay out 400$ ish USD a month simply on bandwidth, I have to eat fairly regularly, as well as pay staff (funny thing of mine i belive people should be paid for the work they do), cover the cost of phones ec cetera. The people working here are already doing so at massively discounted rates. I can't ask them to give up there time for nothing.
Also even if knowledge was free the delivery mechanism for that knowledge, most certainly is not.
Other people do it different way I.E they have people work for free, then cover there sites in advertising and make money that way, but this is the way we have decided to do it. I don't like advertising and people should get paid for there hard work.
If you feel you want to create videos, give us a shout, we will ask for a video test first. If you work for us you get paid for it. (Although not a massive amount) We pay for the stuff that goes in the free section also, our users don't, are we not nice.
If you feel you can cover the costs of the simply sites around 4k a month gimmie a shout and I'll be happy at that point to give everything away free.
the User Controle panel is here.
http://forum.simplylightwave.com/usercp.php
The FAQ is here.
http://www.simply3dworld.com/faq.shtml
Welcome to simplylightwave.
David