# I pit the assholes who are depriving the SDMB of revenue **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 22, 2016, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-assholes-who-are-depriving-the-sdmb-of-revenue/775350 "2016-12-22T09:40:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-assholes-who-are-depriving-the-sdmb-of-revenue/775350/28 "2016-12-22T17:45:53Z")
> [@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. > [@gift memberships are not working](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-memberships-are-not-working/682670/3): > > 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](mailto: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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-assholes-who-are-depriving-the-sdmb-of-revenue/775350)._