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Agilab
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20.  Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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I'm for the idea of paying for special memberships, it would probobly become a trendy thing, kinda like how the noobs post their buts off so when their 3 months comes around they can move up...  . If I were a mod I'd probobly dish out money for the site anyway....but yeah, go for it.
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devil_zukin
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| 21. Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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ssr came back, and people saw it as a 'pre-req.' for becoming a moderator, of course that wasn't the case but you know how people can be.
- Nobody likes the wanna-be mods.
- Nobody wanted to miss their last chance to get a dig at someone who they thought was going to become the man.
- People thought the only way to become ssr was to suck-up (nobody likes suckups)
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You know and this is off topic, I always wondered why I picked as an SSR member when it was still around. I mean I was just being me. 
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I'm all for the concept of paid membership to get rid of banner advertising, faster access, etc. Title has never been that important to me, and I'm still of the opinion that creating extra titles above and beyond the Mod/normal user/Noob levels is probably a bad idea - but if someone was paying to be a member I think some sort of recognition is in order.
We should make it very clear that paid members wouldn't recieve any special treatment from moderators/admins. Post crap and you'd still get banned. |
As far as content I'm not sure what would be good for that besides the videos/no banners and ads. Things like that.
Maybe also custom titles that could be changed by the user (which some rules of course because you know people would be trying to get away with SOMETHING).
Not sure about other content though, not sure what would be worth paying for. 
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Spike
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| 22. Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think that letting them change their titles would be a good idea. If anything, they can change it once a month (or whatever) and we have to approve it.
As for content, banner/avatar hosting would be good, as well as no advertisements.
Maybe even something like "higher quality step charts" or something could be done. Make it look better, have more features that you can mess around with, etc etc. Things like that. If we wanted content, we could make it.
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Bring back SSR members. Now that would be the poopy. |
I know Deshu would agree 
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Also, I think that if anything people would be more careful about breaking the rules if they laid down some money. For example, I noticed that with fark.com, if you have Total Fark and get banned then you need to cancel your subscription. In other words, if you pay them for 6 months of subscription (something like $25 or so) and get banned after 2, you will pay for the rest of the 6 months if you don't cancel it.
I'm not saying that we should keep someone's money if they get banned, but, for example, if someone were to pay for 6 months of membership (assuming we did a membership as opposed to just someone who contributes X amount) and they got banned during their second month, we wouldn't refund them for the month that they got banned.
I know I wouldn't want to be banned if I had spent some money.
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devil_zukin
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| 23. Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Spike wrote: | I don't think that letting them change their titles would be a good idea. If anything, they can change it once a month (or whatever) and we have to approve it.
As for content, banner/avatar hosting would be good, as well as no advertisements.
Maybe even something like "higher quality step charts" or something could be done. Make it look better, have more features that you can mess around with, etc etc. Things like that. If we wanted content, we could make it. |
Those sound pretty good to me. and I think some form or variation of the custom title would be good. But with guidelines of course.
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Technick
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| 24. Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:29 am Post subject: |
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Just keep this idea on hold or something, just know that is is possible.
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Syxx
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| 25. Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:20 am Post subject: Re: Pay / Premium Accounts |
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| Token White Guy wrote: | | *don't flame please, this is just an idea to make it easier for JDogg to pay all the bills* |
Hmm, I always thought JDogg had the SKILLS to pay the bills.
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Spike
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| 27. Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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I guess you didn't read the thread because I suggested at least one feature, as well as other people talking about stuff.
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J Dogg
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| 28. Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 12:45 am Post subject: Re: Pay / Premium Accounts |
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| Syxx. (period) wrote: | | Token White Guy wrote: | | *don't flame please, this is just an idea to make it easier for JDogg to pay all the bills* |
Hmm, I always thought JDogg had the SKILLS to pay the bills. |
Yeah of course I do. But it's always nice to have surplus 
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devil_zukin
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| 29. Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Having just enough is alright, but when you have surplus you can do so much more if you choose to. Plus the security of having a surplus is nice as well.
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J Dogg
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| 30. Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Devil_Zukin wrote: | | Having just enough is alright, but when you have surplus you can do so much more if you choose to. Plus the security of having a surplus is nice as well. |
Yep.. it's impossible to grow without surplus. Without income, this would probably still be ddrfreak.n3.net
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Spike
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| 31. Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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And we wouldn't be able to take super cool trips to Vegas and E3 =D
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Technick
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| 32. Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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By making the pay accounts you can only make the website bigger and better. 
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Rufus!
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| 33. Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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So basically its like "Donations" for extra features..... or recognition. Its a good idea to keep serious people on the boards but bad for all the little poor people who aren't old enough to pay for subscription or too poor 
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Spike
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| 35. Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Rufus wrote: | | So basically its like "Donations" for extra features..... or recognition. Its a good idea to keep serious people on the boards but bad for all the little poor people who aren't old enough to pay for subscription or too poor |
Well, depending on the "features" that were implemented, it wouldn't bother those who weren't subscribers. Well, they would probably wish that they could have the extra features, but I wouldn't want it to be like IGN where you're barred from a major amount of content. That would be a turn off to many people (including regulars that have been here for awhile).
For example, File Planet allows people to download the exact same files, but those who subscribe get them faster and don't have to wait in line. I don't pay, and I'm completely fine with the extra wait. So, for those that want to pay, they can pay and get a nice little feature. For those that don't want to or can't, it's not like they are barred from major content.
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Technick
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| 36. Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 4:48 am Post subject: |
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Just keep these forums the same and leave this free. Then the members would get like extra features and such.
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Rufus!
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| 37. Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:33 am Post subject: |
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I think if there is going to be premium acounts it should include such features
Download sections.
Extra forums access.
Extra forum features.
This would also keep the site running smoothly. Extra money cannot be bad at all.
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devil_zukin
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| 38. Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 7:37 am Post subject: |
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I think there might be a misconception here that all accounts would become pay accounts. Correct me if I'm wrong on that. I way I read it was that there would be accounts for people willing to pay for extras/premiums and whatnot. There would still be the regular free accounts that we have right now, just with the other ones added as well along side the free ones.
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Spike
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| 39. Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, just to make it clear, if we did do this, there would be free accounts and pay accounts. You would not be required to pay, and you would not lose total access to the forums because you did not pay.
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On the other hand...a surplus would be nice for new upgrades for the site and all, jsut leave alot of the features they have now FREE! 
But I think I'd might pay for it, I mean, it's such a great site...