Topic: Newbies can now pay a small fee to enable images (Read 54328 times)

A Copper Membership costs 0.00074760 BTC. In your own post, it shows you've paid 0.00041168 BTC. I'm guessing you paid that amount for "Units of Evil" on your IP-address. That amount is added towards your Copper membership, but it's not enough.
If my interpretation of your story line is correct, you should pay another 0.00029731 BTC to the address you've mentioned to get a Copper membership.

hi, i have one problem i paid a few days ago and the link now show me this:

"Available paid memberships:

Copper - 0.00029731 BTC: Allows you to post images even if you are a newbie, reduces the time-between-actions limit, and provides some of the same benefits as being of natural Member rank.
You have paid a total of 0.00041168 BTC. This is reflected in the above prices. (To get the normal price, add this amount to the above prices.)

Pay to the Bitcoin address 3LEjDmcVjuy6jBAaaXWNSbXF6KB5DCWvUE. Once your transaction has 1 confirmation, revisit this page and then use the form which will appear in order to wear your new membership. Your transaction will not be accepted until it has 1 confirmation. Bitcoin network fees and exchange/wallet withdrawal fees will not count toward your payment.

We are commonly asked how we know that you sent a payment. The address above was newly generated just for you, so when any BTC is sent to it, we will know to credit it to your account. It is all automatic."

i know there is no refunds but i already paid for the copper membership, what can i do to get the copper membership?

Not really. Sometimes you as a newbie can showcase your talents or services like paintings, participate in contests that requires you to post screenshots or pictures, gifs etc. Now if a newbie want to participate in these, they have to work their way up to achieve member rank which is counter-productive. That's why there's the copper membership for them to start offering their services immediately!

If someone is "wearing" their copper membership (or other paid membership), their 'position' will not display on their forum account. This means that someone such as a moderator will not show that they are a moderator if they are 'wearing' their copper membership.

IMO, it is probably best to force moderators (and other staff) to display their respective titles.

That's incorrect. It's not an automated process, you still have to do what "UserU" mentioned in the last line of his/her post.

It no longer matters since "Magdel2014" already paid for it.

You did not pay for the Copper Membership yet because if you had paid your status would have changed to Copper Membership. If you have Copper Membership you will be able to make posts which includes images and have a better signature space which have the links enabled. Before buying the Copper Membership you should ask yourself do you need these additional privileges ?  You can gain all of them by ranking up also.

You have Member privilege so that includes posting images and setting a more detailed profile signature.

Then revisit the Copper Membership page @ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote to wear the Copper Membership. Now your Newbie status would change to Copper Membership.

I paid for the copper membership what happens now

I agree with everything you said, hilariousetc.  My suggestion for those who want to earn merit and rank up (which really does not provide any actual benefit beyond getting forum status, and of course, being able to join some signature campaigns that have rank as one of their criteria) has been to post about topics and in threads that are truly interesting to yourself.  If you have a genuine interest in the topic, you are more likely to engage with the material in such a way in which any post that you make is likely to show that you are interested in the topic and to end up having a higher likelihood of causing others to want to read your post and to inspire them to send smerits in your direction.   

Of course, if you are merely interested in seeking bounties and making money or otherwise exclusively profiting from your posting participation, then members will likely NOT be inspired to send smerits (presuming that the members reading those kinds of posts have any smerits to send).

Surely, there can be a decent amount of selfishness in posting in areas of your own interest, and even seeking out information from other members that is of interest to you, yet there are ways to engage in such selfish behaviors that still inspire other members to send smerits.. and yeah, the posts do not even necessarily need to be objectively of high value so long as some other members recognize some kind of value in the posts in a way that inspires them to send an smerit.

By the way, it could take a decent amount of time on the forum (several hundred posts) before any members start to find value in your posts, but of course, there can be ways to browse through some of the posts of members who receive a lot of smerits and get some ideas regarding how they are receiving smerits.  There seems to be quite a bit of variety in posting approaches that still result in the member receiving smerits with the passage of time.

A post doesn't have to be 'premium' or even long. You can get merit for being helpful, informative or even for being funny and you can do that in short posts. I wouldn't concentrate on actively trying to get merit as this can usually be spotted easily and often has the opposite effect as people tend to not want to merit posts when it's obvious users are just fishing for them. Just post as normal and hopefully you will get some merit over time but it's not really essential other than for moving up the ranks which doesn't really effect your ability to post (though it gets a little faster over time).

You can read more about merit and activity here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0

For the point, i think it's not important never
As if we can't post images so what is our ranks??? Newbie ok
We're newbies, so what we doing to upgrade our ranks??? Write premium posts, and get merits how to do this???
Spend time to write the post up to 5 minutes.

And if spend too many time to write quality posts, so it's better than write 100k posts without any merit lol (like many members)

Oh, I thought theymos would link the price ticker to the membership price so 0.0036 should be 0.0026 since BTC is nearing 10K.

Guess it's time to wait for a "sale" then, haha.

The price is fixed - 0,00368601, what changes is the value of bitcoin. When the bitcoin was 6800 USD a few weeks ago the price was 25$, now it's 34$ but 1BTC is still 1BTC
Theymos often makes some corrections when there are big price fluctuations, so it's just a matter of time to be back at 25$.

Come to think of it, $34 is definitely steep. I remembered when it used to be around like 20 dollars?

That price alone is sufficient to buy you a year of web hosting.

Congrats for getting your first merits . Now you can upload images to your topic without spending $34. As you see, it's not really difficult to get 1 merit.

Wow...  Nice to see that. recently i posted a topic. But, without images this topic is incomplete. Image makes the topic more interesting. But now $34 is not small amount for me  I am waiting to become a jr. member.

Things change in 2 years !

More info here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/enhanced-newbie-restrictions-requirements-5030366

So either you write something interesting/funny etc and get 1 merit to reach jr member rank or click HERE and buy copper membership

This an official account for the biotech company Innovative Bioresearch Ltd who issued the INNBC token. Yes we are the first coin issued by actual research scientists working on HIV, Cancer and with some more funds on Coronavirus as well. So when we made the ANN thread for our cryptoasset we hired some "legendary" members to made the ANN and conduct the bounty campaign. Then those people although they did a good job for us, for some reason got lots of bad reps from other people and were branded as scammers. So we decided to handle things directly and create new threads for our crypto ourselves now on. So two years passed since the ANN thread and we had this surprise.

Bioresearchers have to eat also 

Well, I'm more shocked that an innovative bioresearcher is even concerned about his forum rank