Give a gift? 100 credits???

I'm still confused about the tweets. Now what does this do?

[Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun]

Funny, Marc. I knew this was coming, but it came way too fast for me to be ready for. I had hoped to be ready with a bunch of disc golf gifts, so I'll be scrambling.

(If anyone has a gift image they'd like added in as a potential gift, please send them to me - [e-mail] - as jpg, gif, or png files, under 10 KB in size, along with a description. I'd like this to become a way to feature beautiful disc art and some of our best stamps.)

It's something I have been seeing on Facebook and elsewhere. People actually use PayPal to buy gifts for friends and send them to them, inside the network. (Similar but not identical things are how totally virtual stuff is becoming a big industry, like "real" estate in Second Life :)

Each gift costs the sender 75 credits and Ning has given everyone some free credits to start with. I can't change the pricing on anything, or the categories, yet.

Sheila is totally mystified why anyone would do this, but it seems to be very popular on Facebook. We'll see.

[Ken Long]

Terry,
Could you please explain credits and gift image.
You mean you just want images of disc art? Not scenery art etc?
Thanks,
K.

[Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun]

Ken, since we're experimenting, I think that we can try pretty much anything out and see who likes what. Given the image sizes, I am not sure that scenery art would be visible enough, but if it were a photo of a specific hole and the basket was at least visible, maybe. For example, "John just gave Terry Hole 5 at the Winthrop Gold Course."

I'm pretty open to anything for the rest of this calendar year, with the intent of putting more structure on it starting in January.

Credits: My understanding is that Ning gave each of us some credits to start with, and that to get more credits you have to use Paypal to buy them. I have no ability to change the credits, price of credits, etc. At the moment I can't even create a special disc golf category, although I think that is coming.

[Ken Long]

Ohhh...OK. So if I have a decent disc golf or scenic photo...I could use THOSE as gifts?
As far as the credits thing...I am going to hold off on buying any for the time being (how much will a credit cost?). I still have not got a handle on how it all is going to work, although when it DOES all come together it will be pretty cool.
Thanks,
K.

[Wicked Dyes]

Why not just use pics of discs. People could have a vertual bag. Be a good way to see what disc is the most popular.

[Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun]

Not sure how much credits will cost. Still finding that out. Everyone has at least 100 to start with at no cost, though.

[nick young]

what happens when you get a gift?

[Matt B.]

When you get a gift you feel warm inside, much like a 12 year old girl who has just trained an imaginary pony to do a handstand. Then, two weeks later the postman will bring you a package, and inside the package will be the gift you received. If the gift you received was an imaginary pony that can do handstands, you will feel warm inside. In this way, we will make the world a better place. Truly, isn't this wondrous?

[Jamie 'gr8rocshot' Ruane]

Hey just send cash.....big sums....small bills...okay?....great

[Disc-O Golf]

Cheesy Credits?
I.O.U.'s?
Cash directly to my PayPal account.
Hey, I got special gifts over here!
Customized and fairly cheap. lol.
Oh, the Wheel of Cheese may be unbalanced and spin off its axis...

[Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun]

Not my cup of tea, either, Joe, but it may be for others. Certainly, a lot of it goes on - including with discs - on FB.

[Disc-O Golf]

Who is Joe?
Coffee???
Cup of Joe...