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Re:Forum subscription fee thread
I was going to post my thoughts in that thread, but its already been derailed to hell wouldn't have it.
Anyways, how about instead of mandatory fees, we have the option to "donate" and with this donation we get certain special things granted to our account:
Examples:
1. Little banner/graphic under our username indicated we are a subscriptor
2. Ability to change our username Once. For many of us this alone would be worth the price of admission. I would like to change mine, but I have no intentions of losing my post count or post history.
To keep this from being abused, you could attach some rules to it:
A. Mod has to change it
B. Underneath your username it will same something like "Formely known as whoever"
C. Maybe account has to be atleast 1 year old
3. Perhaps other perks such as an email addy @ neo-geo.com. This one is highly doubtable, but an idea. You could also work up some type of other special features to grant to the folks that donate.
If you want an example of a system just like this for a really big forum that works, head over to Ars Technica and check out there Open Forum. They have been running a system like this for several years and their bbs system is much larger than this one.
With some work, Shawn and company could easily use this to their and the forum members advantage. Although buying from the Neo store would probably be the best way to help the site out, many folks here can't afford or don't even have an AES or MVS system to play these games on. Many are here for the buying/selling forums or just general video game discussion. In this case, offering a donation system would help pull in some income from folks that would most likely otherwise never buy from the Neo Store.
I was going to post my thoughts in that thread, but its already been derailed to hell wouldn't have it.
Anyways, how about instead of mandatory fees, we have the option to "donate" and with this donation we get certain special things granted to our account:
Examples:
1. Little banner/graphic under our username indicated we are a subscriptor
2. Ability to change our username Once. For many of us this alone would be worth the price of admission. I would like to change mine, but I have no intentions of losing my post count or post history.
To keep this from being abused, you could attach some rules to it:
A. Mod has to change it
B. Underneath your username it will same something like "Formely known as whoever"
C. Maybe account has to be atleast 1 year old
3. Perhaps other perks such as an email addy @ neo-geo.com. This one is highly doubtable, but an idea. You could also work up some type of other special features to grant to the folks that donate.
If you want an example of a system just like this for a really big forum that works, head over to Ars Technica and check out there Open Forum. They have been running a system like this for several years and their bbs system is much larger than this one.
With some work, Shawn and company could easily use this to their and the forum members advantage. Although buying from the Neo store would probably be the best way to help the site out, many folks here can't afford or don't even have an AES or MVS system to play these games on. Many are here for the buying/selling forums or just general video game discussion. In this case, offering a donation system would help pull in some income from folks that would most likely otherwise never buy from the Neo Store.
