Topic: Newbies can now pay a small fee to enable images - page 26. (Read 54855 times)

Maybe someday, but the forum doesn't really need extra income right now, and if I was going to do that I'd want the membership to have several real extra benefits.

I suppose it's a start.


Please, please consider this. Most of the staff seem to be for it in some capacity. Even if you don't want to remove signatures completely from ranks/activity and offer the perks in addition to being able to rank up your account naturally as it currently is will go a long way. People will no longer purchase accounts to join a signature campaign or buy one just to run an ICO and the market for hacked/sold accounts will become almost worthless etc. The benefits are numerous.


He's already addressed that.

So we would be able to expect new donator ranks which are indeed the lower-cost donator ranks with these Paid-Memberships being introduced any time soon?

Something between Donator & Copper, which would grant you something like a custom title for donating / supporting to the forum?

Thanks for your work on the forums theymos, highly appreciated!

By popular demand, newbies can now pay to have some of their restrictions lifted. If you pay the fee, you become a Copper Member, and you can post images. That's the main point of this: allowing newbies to post images. Additionally (and these might change depending on how things go), Copper Members currently have these bonuses:

- Some of the same permissions as Member-rank members, such as reduced signature styling restrictions. (But none of the PM-related restrictions are currently lifted, such as the style limit or per-hour PM limit.)
- Your "you must wait ____ seconds between ___" counter is reduced by 75%. So if you're naturally of Newbie rank, you only have to wait 360-75% = 90 seconds.

If you paid an "evil IP" registration fee, then whatever you paid (in BTC terms) is subtracted from the upgrade fee. If you paid a registration fee a long time ago, you might even get a free Copper Membership due to the increase in BTC price. Just visit the link at the bottom of this post to check whether you have it already.

I am aware that for most people the benefits of this membership are pretty lame. This membership is only intended to fill a specific niche; if you don't need it, don't buy it. It is not intended to be the lower-cost Donator/VIP alternative which I've talked about before as a possibility.

I wrote the system so that I can easily add additional paid memberships in the future, but I might not ever do so. Not sure.

You can buy it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote