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Cheesecakemouse
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 05 2006 Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Points: 1751 |
Topic: lets make people pay to be members ! Posted: February 28 2007 at 19:57 |
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get real, no ones going to do that, this site would die everyone would leave and create their own free website and the whole thing would start all over again. Why be in a website you have to pay when you can leave and join a free one.
The whole purpose of this site is to keep it free and democratic, so everyone has a voice, start demanding money and the democracy dies.
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progismylife
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2006 Location: ibreathehelium Status: Offline Points: 15535 |
Posted: February 24 2007 at 09:31 | ||||||||||||||
Free for the first few posts but once you pass ten well, ahem, $200 |
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Witchwoodhermit
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 23 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 871 |
Posted: February 24 2007 at 02:00 | ||||||||||||||
Nice wind-up.
Just to join the choir...
I disagree with the proposal.
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Edited by Easy Livin - February 24 2007 at 04:14 |
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Cheesecakemouse
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 05 2006 Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Points: 1751 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 22:43 | ||||||||||||||
This site should stay free.
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Chicapah
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 14 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8238 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 16:42 | ||||||||||||||
Yeah, but how much for wishful thinking?
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 32962 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 14:26 | ||||||||||||||
Brilliant thinking; a thoughtful idea for this site to make money! People should pay a penny for every thought they share at the site. At least it might keep people like me from throwing in so many tangential ideas, Watch the thoughts dry up. Ah, a progarchives largely devoid of opinions/ ideas/ reasoning/ creative expression, instead focusing on facts! The horror. Edited by Logan - February 23 2007 at 14:28 |
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Chicapah
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 14 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8238 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 14:03 | ||||||||||||||
A penny for your thoughts?
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Chus
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 16 2006 Location: Venezuela Status: Offline Points: 1991 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 12:46 | ||||||||||||||
What is this? Vampirefreaks.com??
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The T
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 16 2006 Location: FL, USA Status: Offline Points: 17493 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 12:42 | ||||||||||||||
What about a 250$ tax for every post bashing Phil Collins? Or for every cheap shot at The Dream?
Man would PA eat Time Warner....
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Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 32962 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 12:35 | ||||||||||||||
Perhaps Prog per se is not as much the problem as is Porcupine Tree. But I do feel your pain. I avoid using the Prog-word when discussing the music I like -- I don't find it meets so much outright vocal derision as it does utter disinterest. After a moment of embarrassed silence, people change the topic. I've taken a few beatings over Gentle Giant. Comments such as "I would acquire the taste; problem is that your taste sucks" or " Gentle Giant's Three Friends? More like Rectal Giant's Three Turds" can be disparaging (not that anyone has ever said it specifically to me, but it's the kind of thing someone might say). Fortunately my friends are far more cultured than I, and would not stoop so low. I did get one person at another board to listen to some Gentle Giant mp3s hosted at this site, and all he said afterwards was "Wasn't Friendly Giant a kiddy TV show?" That was the straw that broke the Camel's back -- and that's when I finally decided to register here. Some people do treat Prog as if it were a four-letter word -- whereas I tend to treat more as a four letter abbreviation. Back on topicish: I don't think people should pay, but perhaps they should be encouraged not to use adblock programs (I also use a scriptblocking program) as advertisements help to generate revenue for this site. And clicking on links (say for buying music) helps pay for the site upkeep. |
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Chicapah
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 14 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8238 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 11:51 | ||||||||||||||
Don't we pay a high enough price for just being people who love progressive rock? How I have suffered from even mentioning Porcupine Tree in proper society circles!
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 11:08 | ||||||||||||||
Seeing the suggestions as to "certain" discussions should be subjected to a charge, I would recommend a real money maker - $10 for anti - Phil Collins Polls or Threads, with entry allowed only to those who agree with them whole heartedly - no disagreeing parties
Mind you, that would take away half the fun I get from this site Dit moi, Charles C'est une Bad Luck Dit moi Charlie J'suis Bad Lucky .... |
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micky
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 10:37 | ||||||||||||||
since when is this not a porn site.. who here wasn't shocked by the 'extreme sex test'. other than Jody hahahahah and don't forget the tax on Rush threads and polls ..they are nearly as bad. Edited by micky - February 23 2007 at 10:38 |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19703 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 10:30 | ||||||||||||||
How about a system that allows you to post once in the forum for every ten reviews you submit?
That would literaly kill the VRs
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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kazansky
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 24 2006 Location: Indonesia Status: Offline Points: 5085 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 10:29 | ||||||||||||||
i'd prefer saving money to buy cds rather than paying to this site
i'm sure The T would lead a Jihad against those DT-tax thing Edited by kazansky - February 23 2007 at 10:31 |
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The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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Raff
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 10:28 | ||||||||||||||
This section doesn't indeed support polls, as I discovered once when I moved a poll to here from somewhere else.
BTW, I think it's a very bad idea to make people pay to become members... We're not a porn site, after all! Seriously, it would make membership shrink dramatically, and impair the quality of the contributions to the site. On the other hand, I also think a tax on DT threads and polls wouldn't be such a bad idea.... Edited by Ghost Rider - February 23 2007 at 10:29 |
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Ivan_Melgar_M
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19535 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 10:27 | ||||||||||||||
Knowing how addicted we are, in a few months Prog Archives would own our houses.
Iván
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kazansky
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 24 2006 Location: Indonesia Status: Offline Points: 5085 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 10:23 | ||||||||||||||
and don't forget all the other 20k and 10k posters as well
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The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 10:22 | ||||||||||||||
You would bankrupt Geck0.
Iván
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progismylife
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2006 Location: ibreathehelium Status: Offline Points: 15535 |
Posted: February 23 2007 at 10:21 | ||||||||||||||
Never!
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