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Originally Posted by trigatch4
Mixed feelings.
Let the existing "premium members" decide who is worthy of the "inner circle". You'll basically need people to "vouch" for you... ie eliminating the bullshit. If a newb wants to "get in" then perhaps they can pay their way in but at the same time, what is to stop Google or Facebook or anyone from ante-ing up $200/year to get the lowdown on the showdown... the "dirt" so to speak?
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I thought we outgrew elitist popularity contests in high school.
No offense, Trigatch, and I see a valid point in your suggestion, but that will only encourage competitors to badmouth each other or [insert various prejudices here].
While capping the subscribers at a certain number is okay, having too limited a forum can also be self-destructive as talent leaves, moves on or stops sharing ideas and a vacuum emerges where rising talent should be.
Everyone was a noob at some point. Few are talented, it's true, but those few will never matriculate if everyone keeps throwing up barriers and catch-22s like:
-- you need a shitload of money to buy into a club to make money (I'm not saying I can't pay $25, I'm saying prices significantly higher than that are steep for forums)
-- you need to know people to meet people who can 'know you'
etc. Just saying. Some of us are just starting to see returns on little-cost investments and still learning programming as we go. I don't mind paying, and I told Jon so -- but we'd better be getting
really good info in a paid forum.