"Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one"
That quote truly showed it's ugly face in this thread... but most of them were good.
I'm actually kind of shocked. Partly because so many people are for it, instead of bashing the shit out of me for being a Jew, and the other part because there were so many of you who contacted me or other mods privately and suggested to make it way more expensive than we had originally planned for.
Here's how it's going to work.
The price is going to be set at $35.00 USD per month. (I put that in bold so you don't have to be annoying and ask "what's the fee?") Everyone pays the same fee.
But here's where we'll make it interesting, and hopefully not too confusing...
If you are recommended by a Moderator or you've contributed some good stuff in the past and aren't a moderator or Guide, we'll give you a discount or work out a deal with you (ie. more good shit for no fee per month). The same deal can work with programmers, designers, developers, etc. Anyone who can REALLY contribute and make a difference right away and keep it up, will get either a discount or a free pass. It will work on a case by case basis. If you don't have $35 clams to at least get your ass into the new section, don't PM or email me asking if I can do you a favor, because the answer will be a flat out no. There are TONS of other forums out there that are free. Goodluck with them.
I'm not doing this as a "wow I can get rich off of the members", I'm doing it because it's come to that time where a decision needed to be made a while back and I just put it off for too long. The quality was going to the crapper, our mods were getting irritated by annoying members. Regular lurkers and members were getting sick of these newbie idiots joining, asking questions, getting answers and leaving only to return for more advice or to leech off of more solid info.
The fee itself is a whole 35 bucks. Seriously. If you can't afford 35 bucks a month then you are not only at the wrong forum, but you're also in the wrong line of work. You're better off going elsewhere and weeding through the hoards of garbage that other forums produce every single day. Fail elsewhere. Most other forums that go paid, charge around $100/mo, so compare that with us and we're almost 3x cheaper and most likely 100x more active.
There won't be any sales page, because we don't NEED it. We're also going to cap the number of new paid members we accept every month. If you pay, and turn out to be a dickhead and abuse the rules, you're going to be kicked out, and we're going to take your cash and give it away. We're also going to keep tabs on people who paid and get kicked and pool the cash together and either give it all away to charity or give it away via contests for the members. Sucks for you. But just because you paid, doesn't mean you can act like a cockface or that we owe you anything more than what you're paying for.
So bottom line, if you pay, don't do it just to leech or because you think you're going to make it big overnight. Do it because you genuinely want to learn, because you're tired of nonsense posts, because you're willing to share better ideas, strategies and theories that you'd normally never post here or want other lurkers or engines to see, or a whole bunch of other ideas.
There will still be free sections here. Without a doubt.
Those sections will be: Industry News, Shooting the Shit, Buy Sell Trade, Now for something completely different, Newbie Questions, Feedback, and the Rules area (which is like the weather channel of the forum, because it gets boring REAL quick). We still may keep all of the sections and just pick and choose the ones we want to stick into the new area, but we'll play it by ear and see what works and what doesn't work.
The Mailers area is going to be seperate and will cost a lot more. Reasons for this is that a lot of mailers are saying that their section has the potential to go to shit really quickly and there have also been a lot of people abusing the information posted there. That wasn't the reason for it originally, so we'll decide on a price for that later after we finish the first move.
If you become a paid member, there are plenty of perks that I haven't listed yet, and won't list until we do the move, so that you can decide if it's worth it or not for ya. Honestly, you don't have to make a decision right away, but we're going to close paid premium membership at a capped number that the staff and I will decide on over the weekend.
Some perks that I will list are...
- Paid users get links in sigs without the nofollow shit; free members don't get any links or sigs. Suckers.
- Paid users can create new threads in ALL sections; free users may either be limited per day or won't be allowed to create threads in certain sections, or they will be severely limited.
- ALL paid users get free tickets to Affiliate Summit conferences and some VIP areas at parties during AD:TECH, SES, Affiliate Summit, SMX, etc. (although VIP is usually on a limited issued basis).
- ALL paid users get first access to tickets or limited tickets to our parties and/or events at conferences.
- ALL paid users get to beta our new services and tools/software that we make or others ask us to try.
- ALL paid users get promo codes for niche services/products that I'm securing at the moment for SEM/SEO purposes. Can also be used for reduced fees for some of the premium services other sites offer.
- Paid users can buy and sell services/products from one another without any free members gaining access to it, and since they are paid members, they already have a higher trust level than that of free members, so it should amount to easier and smoother transactions between eachother.
I'll post more info after the changes are made and we start to settle in. To those who have already made up your mind to join up, you get a high five right away for being smart. To those unsure, grow some balls and test it out you big babies. To those who don't think it's worth it, just remember that you probably spend way more cash on really dumb things that have never done anything good for you before.
Have a good weekend.
That quote truly showed it's ugly face in this thread... but most of them were good.
I'm actually kind of shocked. Partly because so many people are for it, instead of bashing the shit out of me for being a Jew, and the other part because there were so many of you who contacted me or other mods privately and suggested to make it way more expensive than we had originally planned for.
Here's how it's going to work.
The price is going to be set at $35.00 USD per month. (I put that in bold so you don't have to be annoying and ask "what's the fee?") Everyone pays the same fee.
But here's where we'll make it interesting, and hopefully not too confusing...
If you are recommended by a Moderator or you've contributed some good stuff in the past and aren't a moderator or Guide, we'll give you a discount or work out a deal with you (ie. more good shit for no fee per month). The same deal can work with programmers, designers, developers, etc. Anyone who can REALLY contribute and make a difference right away and keep it up, will get either a discount or a free pass. It will work on a case by case basis. If you don't have $35 clams to at least get your ass into the new section, don't PM or email me asking if I can do you a favor, because the answer will be a flat out no. There are TONS of other forums out there that are free. Goodluck with them.
I'm not doing this as a "wow I can get rich off of the members", I'm doing it because it's come to that time where a decision needed to be made a while back and I just put it off for too long. The quality was going to the crapper, our mods were getting irritated by annoying members. Regular lurkers and members were getting sick of these newbie idiots joining, asking questions, getting answers and leaving only to return for more advice or to leech off of more solid info.
The fee itself is a whole 35 bucks. Seriously. If you can't afford 35 bucks a month then you are not only at the wrong forum, but you're also in the wrong line of work. You're better off going elsewhere and weeding through the hoards of garbage that other forums produce every single day. Fail elsewhere. Most other forums that go paid, charge around $100/mo, so compare that with us and we're almost 3x cheaper and most likely 100x more active.
There won't be any sales page, because we don't NEED it. We're also going to cap the number of new paid members we accept every month. If you pay, and turn out to be a dickhead and abuse the rules, you're going to be kicked out, and we're going to take your cash and give it away. We're also going to keep tabs on people who paid and get kicked and pool the cash together and either give it all away to charity or give it away via contests for the members. Sucks for you. But just because you paid, doesn't mean you can act like a cockface or that we owe you anything more than what you're paying for.
So bottom line, if you pay, don't do it just to leech or because you think you're going to make it big overnight. Do it because you genuinely want to learn, because you're tired of nonsense posts, because you're willing to share better ideas, strategies and theories that you'd normally never post here or want other lurkers or engines to see, or a whole bunch of other ideas.
There will still be free sections here. Without a doubt.
Those sections will be: Industry News, Shooting the Shit, Buy Sell Trade, Now for something completely different, Newbie Questions, Feedback, and the Rules area (which is like the weather channel of the forum, because it gets boring REAL quick). We still may keep all of the sections and just pick and choose the ones we want to stick into the new area, but we'll play it by ear and see what works and what doesn't work.
The Mailers area is going to be seperate and will cost a lot more. Reasons for this is that a lot of mailers are saying that their section has the potential to go to shit really quickly and there have also been a lot of people abusing the information posted there. That wasn't the reason for it originally, so we'll decide on a price for that later after we finish the first move.
If you become a paid member, there are plenty of perks that I haven't listed yet, and won't list until we do the move, so that you can decide if it's worth it or not for ya. Honestly, you don't have to make a decision right away, but we're going to close paid premium membership at a capped number that the staff and I will decide on over the weekend.
Some perks that I will list are...
- Paid users get links in sigs without the nofollow shit; free members don't get any links or sigs. Suckers.
- Paid users can create new threads in ALL sections; free users may either be limited per day or won't be allowed to create threads in certain sections, or they will be severely limited.
- ALL paid users get free tickets to Affiliate Summit conferences and some VIP areas at parties during AD:TECH, SES, Affiliate Summit, SMX, etc. (although VIP is usually on a limited issued basis).
- ALL paid users get first access to tickets or limited tickets to our parties and/or events at conferences.
- ALL paid users get to beta our new services and tools/software that we make or others ask us to try.
- ALL paid users get promo codes for niche services/products that I'm securing at the moment for SEM/SEO purposes. Can also be used for reduced fees for some of the premium services other sites offer.
- Paid users can buy and sell services/products from one another without any free members gaining access to it, and since they are paid members, they already have a higher trust level than that of free members, so it should amount to easier and smoother transactions between eachother.
I'll post more info after the changes are made and we start to settle in. To those who have already made up your mind to join up, you get a high five right away for being smart. To those unsure, grow some balls and test it out you big babies. To those who don't think it's worth it, just remember that you probably spend way more cash on really dumb things that have never done anything good for you before.
Have a good weekend.
