Donation Suggestion: Customizable page

[Enfaru]

At the moment NS offers NationPages (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=Enfaru) with little to no customization. I'd be happy to pay say $5.00 to gain access to be able to customize it using permitted CSS/HTML. Where I could add in my own data, change the layout and make it really special.

I mean, if I could donate to do that to a Regional page (http://www.nationstates.net/region=Sovereign_Charter), I'd be more than willing to do that as well but I think that got shot down by something or other some time ago. I think if it were possible to have a collective regional donation pool so members of the region could contribute there'd be more creativity as there'd (in theory) be a stronger sense of community ownership. I suspect other users might feel the same way and therefore provide more income to upgrade the servers and perhaps pay Violet a little more for a stupendous job. (Violet gets paid right?)

[Frisbeeteria]

(Violet gets paid right?)

No.

If somebody wants to write a Greasemonkey script or use some other external page customisation tools, that would solve your concerns, right? So rather than having our extremely overworked admin staff tackle a problem that (as far as I know) only one user is having, why don't you encourge a less-busy external scripter to make your changes? You seem to have some technical chops. Try tackling it yourself.

[Enfaru]

That doesn't change the view of my page for other people, which is what I want >.>

[The Blaatschapen]

That doesn't change the view of my page for other people, which is what I want >.>

I'm way to afraid of the following things:

-wrongly nested HTML tags, majorly fucking up pages, mods/admins needing to clean this up all the time. And since we're not all into web development, we'd just as well do *delete content* after which lots of complaints will happen because player X was making said content while using Internet Explorer 8 and it was working perfectly fine in that! And now it's all gone, while player paid for this possibility. I foresee a lot of headaches here.

-annoying CSS/HTML (even if only a subset is allowed, I can make an eyesore with any colour!)

-more possibilities to sneak in stuff that is obscene, illegal, threatening, malicious, or defamatory (etc.). So it would mean that the mods would need tools to find and delete that shit.

Besides, we'd also get into endless discussions about what CSS/HTML would or would not be permitted.

[Hobbesistan]

I am just saying as a tech person, I could use a CSS/HTML insert to wreak all kinds of havoc.

Like blaat said, abuseable to holy hell for something that isnt really worth it.