More donator ranks have been suggested numerous times by various people including me.
More income isn't needed right now
As I've said before, you could always give it to charity or use it to fund worthwhile developments that benefit the community or crypto. Out of interest, does the forum hold any fiat reserves?
and any possible benefits of an additional membership tier seem to me like they would be too superfluous.
I don't think they would. I think there's lots of benefits to offering them both for users, the forum and the general community. It would pretty much kill the account sales/farming/scamming market firstly. It's also quite difficult to get merit so I think people should be able to bypass it via a sufficient payment. They're only going to buy an account or the merit anyway. Additional perks like being able to change your username, have a custom title, or image banner in their signature would also be big draws for people. I think you'd be surprised by how many people would purchase a premium membership, especially if it comes with some decent perks.
Maybe I'll do it at some future point, when more income is needed and/or I have some decent ideas for things that really should be payment-gated.
The way bitcoin is going it probably won't be too long
. I'm sure the community could brainstorm some suggested perks they'd like to see or that they'd pay for.
P.S. Why do so many people read co
pper member as c
ooper member?
. The misspellings of various things on this forum have cracked me up over the years. Cooper Member, Cupper Member, me being accused of being a
rapper and so on.
Maybe theymos could use this money in the forum, in some especific area like account recovery or something like that
For account recovery, theymos said if it was possible to maintain, he would throw $100k instantly for that.
For 100k I'll sit on the forum and recover them all day every day
. Problem solved
. Hopefully the automatic recovery tool will be ready by the end of the year though.