If you want to help financially support this web site but also want to gain some benefits for yourself then why not become a supporter? This scheme is open to all existing members and only costs £3 a month. Payment is automatically collected from you via a monthly PayPal subscription that can be cancelled by yourself at any time. All money collected goes straight back into this web site - it either helps pay the monthly web hosting costs or helps pay for new features and improvements to be made to the web site.

You can subscribe to this scheme by simply clicking on the Paid Subscriptions link within your Control Panel and then following the instructions displayed.

So why would you want to become an aberdeen-music supporter? Well, if you subscribe you will be automatically promoted from a Regular Member to a Supporter and this entitles you to the following extra benefits:

1. Increased Gallery Capacity
   
   You can upload up to 25MB of photos to your photo gallery instead of the normal 2MB limit.
   
   
2. Use a Signature
   
   You are permitted to have your own signature in your posts and private message. You can use both vB Code and link to images within it.
   
   
3. Increased Private Messages Capacity
   
   You can store up to 1000 private messages rather than the usual maximum of 250 messages.
   
   
4. Add a Profile Picture
   
   You can add an image to be associated with your user profile. This is similar to an avatar but can be much larger (up to 500x500 pixels and up to 100KB in size) and is displayed on your public profile page.
   
   
5. Access to The Lounge
   
   You will have access to the exclusive The Lounge forum where access is restricted to aberdeen-music staff, sponsors and other supporters only.
   
   
6. Create Arcade Tournaments
   
   You can create your own tournaments within the Arcade section of our web site.
   
   
7. No Advertisements
   
   You will not have to see any of our advertisements on the web site when logged in as a supporter, sponsor or staff member.
   
   
8. Increased Avatar Size
   
   You can upload and use an animated avatar and an avatar up to 25KB in file size. Regular Members are permitted non-animated avatars only and avatars up to 10KB in file size.
   
   As further features and sections are added to the web site then this list of benefits will increase over time. Please note that all aberdeen-music staff and sponsors have all the benefits stated above already.