“3MD” Membership Levels
“3MD” = Mandatory Monthly Membership Donations
We call it ‘3MD’ (and not ‘Scaffies Donation’) to protect your privacy on your card statement.
Pirate Level • NUX MadMax Level • SparkieShock Artist Support Level • IVAR THE BONER Viking Level • CALIGULA Roman Level
Please pick your “3MD” membership level below.
Scroll down all the way to make your donation choice.
We are a not-for-profit community, and live exclusively from member donations.
One way or another you will need to chip in a little to keep Scaffies going.
All community contributions are voluntary and recurring DONATIONS – and not refundable.
This is what the not-for-profit Scaffies community voted for in Fall 2019.
“Recurring” means your donation membership renews automatically
(otherwise it is way too much overhead for the unpaid volunteer administrators to follow up individually).
Supporting Scaffies with more?
Gives you more, and helps the community and the artists grow and improve:
this is why we have different membership levels.
You can cancel your donation subscription or delete your account at any time.
“NUX” is the main membership type
[Pre-2020 Members: With this $5 per month plan, nothing changes for you from what you had previously from 2013 to 2019 (except for contributing a Starbucks-coffee-worth each month to the site now).]
‘NUX’ is the membership model we discussed at length for months, and took two votes on in November 2019 – see backgrounder.
You get ‘Participant’ status:
- Member Directory
- Member Real-Time Chat with Video Calling (Private, Main Group Chat, Role Play Chat, SCAFFCON Conferences) – 7 million messages so far
- Create your own Chat Rooms (choice of open to all members or private)
- Member Real-Time Messaging with Voice or Video Calling
- All Member Chats and Messaging is based on the Dutch Scaffies server (not using Chinese, Russian, or American web services)
- Member Galleries
- Member Search
- Member Profiles and Edit Functions (including your own profile)
- Member Verification (optional – we go through great length to protect your privacy)
- Member Challenges and Competitions (both online and IRL – such as the group meetings held in Germany and Texas)
- Member Picture & Video Galleries (including your own = currently 4 GigaBytes of space)
- Member Achievement Badges
- Membership Level Badge
- Rich Content: Forums & Groups with approximately 350,000 Posts & Topics as of April 2021
- Rich Content: over 455,000 ‘Activities’ as of April 2021
- Group Picture & Video Galleries
- 225 Local Groups: 15 Major Cities and a local group for every single country on earth
- Special Interest Groups: Busters / Mutual / bustees – Extreme Stuff – from Light Busting to even more Extreme Stuff
- Nut Whacking Army recruiting
- Scaffies Fight Club membership
- Church of Scaffies membership
- Access to the Madeira Desouza Forum
- Leads to Professional $$ Busters
- Online Roly Play Club
- Web Cammers Club
- My Scaffies Wallet: Token Currency – earn “Busts” and “Cums” for your Scaffies Cryptocurrency Wallet — over 10 million coins mined so far
- Ranking by “Busts” and “Cums”
- giving and getting Compliments
- Activity Stream across the entire community
- Make new Friends, and thus see their “Friends-Only” Gallery Albums
- all Forums and Groups with all the Topics & Replies
(except the private ones, such as HardCoreScaffies (HCS), Extreme HCS, IVAR, and CALIGULA) - Forum Power Search
- ability to create New Topics
- ‘Thumbs up/down’ Voting on Forum Topics and Replies (over 1,5 million votes so far)
- “Emojy” Voting on Forum Topics and Replies to gauge your emotions about each
- “Thank You” Voting on Forum Topics and Replies (with your username and time stamp)
- My Badges
- Questions & Answers
- Member Cloud Drive directory
- the Competitons
- the Video Sections
- the Polls (you can create your own polls, and vote on other members’ and community polls)
- the DIY and Commercial Toy Reviews – with links
- monthly SCAFFCON conferences hosted by Richard @rangy69
- previous SCAFFCONs and their transcripts
- Richard’s SCAFFCON Blog and Blog History
- all SCAFFCON Media Rooms & Boards
- Dr Radgie’s Hooligan Ballbusting A.D.V.I.S.E.
(“fair affronted by fannybawz … nae keen on barkit wee minkers”) - the current and past Change Log(s)
- the Editor Journal
- Kerrie’s Cock-Tail Recipes
- the “That Day at the Quarry“ Ballbusting Tutorial
- the “Böllöcks Adventures” Comic
- Gengoroh Tagame Artists’ Ballbusting and CBT Drawings
– plus many others like Jotta, Cavelo, etc - Scaffies HQ Pictures (animated)
- Members’ Best Busts List
- Members’ Ballbusting Resolutions
- the ‘Hanky Code’ & S/M Hand Signals Guide
- Top 50 Members and Top 50 Reviews Summaries
- Meet The Admins – introduction of the sheriffs
- Scaffies Flashback History Tour
- the current Newspaper: THE SCAFFINGTON POST
(including the infamous Page 3: The Naked Balls) - and the older newspapers THE EXPRESS and NEWS EXPRESS
- Contact Forms for Volunteer Admins, Newsdesk, and Dr Radgie
- the Kramtoad-to-Scaffies Transition
- access to Scaffies Merchandise & Logo Gear
Monthly, 6 Months, or 1 Year recurring donation memberships.
The following membership types are only for those, who want to support Scaffies & Artists more – this is entirely optional. In return there many exclusive extras, and the pride badges which go with the commitment:
We have to define the levels somehow to make it work with the membership system, thus the various pricing options to accommodate all the various donation pledges.
“SparkieShock”
The SparkieShock level is a special membership to help out a popular ballbusting artist with a donation split. While Madeira Desouza – another popular ballbusting artist – prefers to promote his art within the Scaffies community, where his supporters get links to full collections of his creative works elsewhere, SparkieShock posts his Parilla Electro Shock Ballbusting art exclusively here in his SparkieShock group.
Members with this membership level have access to this group. This allows SparkieShock to promote his art elsewhere, brings new members to Scaffies, and makes his popular edgy to very edgy art accessible to a wider community without censorship issues. The donations collected beyond the NUX level are passed on to SparkieShock by Scaffies.
It has the same capabilites as ‘NUX’
- plus the private SparkieShock group – with exclusive SparkieShock art work
Monthly, 6 Months, or 1 Year recurring donation memberships.
The Viking level is basically what the special benefits were in the past (2013-2019) for all those donors, who supported Scaffies financially in the first six years, and kept it going.
It has the same capabilites as ‘Nux’
- plus the private Hard-Core Scaffies (HCS) and Extreme HCS groups – formerly known as rewards for the badged 221 Donors
- plus the private SparkieShock group – with exclusive SparkieShock art work
- plus exclusive access to the IVAR group
Monthly, 6 Months, or 1 Year recurring donation memberships.
The Roman level Power Member is a new role & level.
A few members want to go above and beyond just donating substantial cash to the community.
They want to engage on a much more intense level. You cannot express more how much you are into ballbusting than with a CALIGULA membership :)
CALIGULA Members
- adds status and generosity on top of the ‘Ivar The Boner’ level
- plus access to special features which we will also be implementing (“Caligula’s Balls Orgy” and more)
- plus access to the private SparkieShock group – with exclusive SparkieShock art work
- plus all capacities of the IVAR level
- early “word” and access to new ‘stuff’ on Scaffies
- plus exclusive access to the CALIGULA group
Monthly, 6 Months, or 1 Year recurring donation memberships.
“Onlooker”-only membership:
The Captured Pirate level is an annual $10 expense to keep your Scaffies account (for existing members who joined prior to 2020).
It is basically the entrance level to having a Scaffies account. This is the “look only” version, in which you cannot participate in community acitivities, and only get to ‘see’ a very small portion of all the stuff on Scaffies (of over 350,000 Topics & Replies, over 455,000 Activities). The community voted in 2019 to make a small donation mandatory ($5/month = NUX level) – the Captured Pirate level is for those who want to keep their Scaffies accounts, and not actively participate, until they are ready to support the community like everyone else does.
You get only very limited ‘Spectator’ access:
- Contact Forms for Volunteer Admins, Newsdesk, and Dr Radgie
- You cannot make new Friends, and thus not see all the “Friends-Only” Gallery Albums
- Forum “read-only” Access (no Group Forums)
- the Chat is *NOT* available at this level (only NUX and above)
1 Year recurring donation membership.
Existing & New Members:
please choose your level.
All community contributions are voluntary and recurring DONATIONS – and not refundable.
This is what the not-for-profit Scaffies community voted for in Fall 2019.
“Recurring” means your donation membership renews automatically
(otherwise it is way too much overhead for the unpaid volunteer administrators to followup).
You can cancel your donation subscription or delete your account at any time.
Level | Price | |
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CAPTURED PIRATE - $10 per Year - recurring with OneTimeOnly Donation option + fees | PIRATE 1 Year recurring until cancelled = $12.50 | Select |
NUX - MadMax Level - $5 per month - Yearly + fees | NUX 1 Year recurring until cancelled = $63.25 | Select |
NUX - MadMax Level - $7.50 per month - 6 Months + fees | NUX 6 Months recurring until cancelled = $47.50 | Select |
NUX - MadMax Level - $10 month-to-month - recurring + fees | NUX 1 Month recurring until cancelled = $11.25 | Select |
SPARKIESHOCK - Artist Support Level - $185 per year + fees | SparkieShock 1 Year recurring until cancelled = $196.85 | Select |
SPARKIESHOCK - Artist Support Level - $95 per 6-months + fees | SparkieShock 6 Months recurring until cancelled = $99.85 | Select |
SPARKIESHOCK - Artist Support Level - $20 per month + fees | SparkieShock 1 Month recurring until cancelled = $22.75 | Select |
IVAR THE BONER - Viking Level - $25 per month - Yearly + fees | IVAR 1 Year recurring until cancelled = $305.25 | Select |
IVAR THE BONER - Viking Level - $35 per month - 6 months + fees | IVAR 6 Months recurring until cancelled = $213.25 | Select |
IVAR THE BONER - Viking Level - $50 month-to-month + fees | IVAR 1 Month recurring until cancelled = $52.75 | Select |
CALIGULA - Roman Level - $50 per month - Yearly + fees | CALIGULA 1 Year recurring until cancelled = $605 | Select |
CALIGULA - Roman Level - $75 per month - 6 months + fees | CALIGULA 6 Months recurring until cancelled = $453.85 | Select |
CALIGULA - Roman Level - $100 month-to-month + fees | CALIGULA 1 Month recurring until cancelled = $103.80 | Select |
YOU CAN DONATE WITH ALL MAJOR CREDIT – DEBIT – GIFT CARDS.
Stripe provides the embedded credit card field, which shows up here on the site. Scaffies does not (!) see the information you enter. You are only asked for the card information (which we also do not see! – of course) – no other personal info. The system handles the automatic credit to your membership level – we see nothing more than that. This is perfectly safe, millions of people use the service every day – Stripe is a major vendor in the arena. The membership service system used here is provided by Paid Membership Pro, which is used by over 80,000 other sites. It only asks you for the card information – and that works! This is the default, and it works automatically.
The memberships themselves only show up as “3MD“ (short for: Mandatory Monthly Member Donations) – we figured not everyone wants “Scaffies” to appear anywhere on their credit card statements.
This works all fully automatic, so the volunteer admins do net get involved at all, except for customer service in case there are questions.
Allow your card to be processed / charged in the USA. Many credit cards can be configured these days on your online banking with geo-blocking features to allow / disallow charges in a variety of countries (typically to prevent fraud in obscure countries, which do not use EMV chips, but only the magentic stripe on the back; when card data is stolen, crooks create new magnetic stripe cards, and use them in less-developed countries without EMV infrastructure; to prevent this kind of fraud, many card companies issuing EMV cards – such as in Europe – disallow those countries by default). If you are not in the US, then it may be turned off by default. If your card gets declined, please verify you allow charging in the USA. Our credit card processor Stripe runs operations in California, USA.
Gift cards (prepaid credit cards) can be used (one member at least did). Just make sure they are valid in the USA, where the charges are being processed (by Stripe).
As for Visa/MasterCard/AMEX etc, they can NOT trace payments back to Scaffies. The processor can, of course (Stripe), but Visa (or Mastercard, or Amex) only sees the “3MD” and that the charges were processed through Stripe, but not more than that. We intentionally set it up in a way which guarantees the most possible privacy. You will also notice the processor (Stripe) only asks for the credit card number, expiration date, and CVC along with a email – not your name, nor your address. We at Scaffies only see the last 4 digits of your credit card, and which card it is (Visa, MC, etc) – nothing else: only if the payment was successful or not; and all of that is done automatically by the membership system software we use.
P.S.: one member interested in a yearly Caligula membership asked how safe Stripe is. Here is my (@admin7) answer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_(company)
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stripe