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    Regarding supporter tier or donation run - I would have been an enthusiastic supporter of this idea a decade ago. In 2025, after a $1.8B buyout and years and years of bad management? Lol no, I'm not donating or paying a single cent to SE until they respect the community wishes. Same with merch - I wouldn't wear a SO shirt or hoodie if you gave it to me for free and paid me to wear it. Not sure how many of the more engagend users share a similar sentiment but looking at the scores of most SE announcements over the past few years I suspect you won't find many donors or SE "gold" account buyers. Commented Dec 10, 2025 at 13:30
  • Well sure @l4mpi, I wouldn't either (in my case it's because although I've been here for 10+ years I very much enjoy answering questions from the Hot Topic list as kind of an intellectual challenge and for relaxation, but have had little luck asking my own questions. So I am indeed getting plenty of entertainment from SE but certainly nothing or very little that would be worth paying, for me personally). But still, even if not everyone pays, maybe there are some that do; the expectation is not for SE being paid only by one facet, just as an alternative to the new ad scheme. Commented Dec 10, 2025 at 14:21
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    The question is if there are enough people who would still pay to make any sort of impact. If SE launch a "premium" account and only get a few hundred signups that will probably not even recoup the dev costs. A donation drive has less up front costs associated with it but depends even more on community goodwill, and that's a pretty rare resource at the moment. Commented Dec 10, 2025 at 14:59