lets make people pay to be members !

Chicapah wrote: Yeah, but how much for wishful thinking?

Free for the first few posts but once you pass ten well, ahem, $200

 This site should stay free.

Edited by Cheesecakemouse - February 23 2007 at 22:44

Chicapah wrote: A penny for your thoughts?

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

What is this? Vampirefreaks.com??

Chicapah wrote: 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!

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.

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 ....

MikeEnRegalia wrote: How about adding a mechanism which ensures that people only write 10 posts for each review they submit?

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

and don't forget all the other 20k and 10k posters as well

martinn wrote: ^^ what about paying per post?