Servers should get paid for every boost

Aes
Most platforms right now have their own way of supporting the creators behind it. Youtube has memberships and twitch has subscriptions, just like most other platforms. Discord has nitro boosts, which are great for the users due to all of the perks, but almost not beneficial for the actual server owners. Sure, you can add banners and unlock more server features, but those are once again features that make the server better for the users. With the price of nitro, servers should definitely get a % of every boost they get. Even if its a small amount, the amount of work that these server owners put in to run and maintain communities, deserves some validation.
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  • Venom²

    But what about the people who don't have credit cards, would Discord get the money?

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  • Aes

    It should be a choice for the server owners whether they want to enable boosts on their servers or not. Forcing servers to acknowledge boosts is a bit over the top. Ideally server boosts could be toggled on and off. A linked card or paypal account would be necessary to turn boosts on.

    This is just another idea, but it would be cool to also enable linking a charity instead. Same way YouTube has video fundraisers, communities on discord could raise money for good causes. A lot of good could come out of this. But as I mentioned, this is just a another idea.

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  • letsCode

    I support that charity idea 100%. That would be a solution for owners who either don't want to connect their creditcard/paypal or don't have these things. Sadly i don't think that discord wants to lose that big source of income.

    Coming to the technical side:

    Not only the money that discord would "lose", also the transfer of the money can be a problem. There is software that can do the tasks but there are a lot of servers who get boosted. That would take a lot of new serverspace to transfer money every single month to a indivisual charity. In order to prevent that high traffic it would make sense to give that feature to big servers only. For example partners, verified communities, etc. .  In that way the traffic would get reduced by alot because there are no(or at least a small abount) of processes for "only" 6$(2 boosts). Discord would still have passive income from smaller communities and higher amounts of money go to various charities. 

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