I pit the assholes who are depriving the SDMB of revenue

[cochrane]

@aldiboronti

Paying for someone’s membership is perfectly possible and has been a regular practice among Dopers for years.

The ability to give gift subscriptions was suspended in 2014 after an upgrade broke the board. As of a year ago, they haven’t been reinstated.

@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

Posted 4/25/2014

And yes, I know Jerry is no longer the IT guy, but AFAIK, his successor hasn’t fixed it, either.