Buying Someone Else a Membership?

[cochrane]

Apparently not, as of 2014.

@jdavis

The gift subscription plugin was broken by the recent upgrade to the vBulletin version. If you have submitted a gift subscription that did not work correctly please send an email to webmaster@straightdope.com with the details. Include your username and the username of the person you were giving a gift subscription too. I’ll make manual changes to apply the gift.

For the time being I’ve disabled the ability to give gift subscriptions until I have time to analyze the old plugin and determine what is needed to get it to work on the new version.

Jerry

As far as I know, they haven’t been reenabled, but I’ll leave it to one of the mods to confirm or dispel.