Charging for new member accounts

Many forums, like somethingawful.com ($10 one time) and seobook.com ($300/month!), charge a price for membership.

WATMM has always been free to sign up for, but recently I've been thinking we could solve a lot of problems by charging $10 to join. We'd cut down on dupe accounts, trolls, and have enough income to put the download library back online.

Existing members wouldn't be charged anything, this would only apply to new signups.

Also, let's assume these new accounts came with all the features of an EKT account (currently $20/year).

Thoughts?

Seems fair enough.

Why did you put it in Gen Banter though, should be in EKT or somewhere where the retards don't hang out.

I paid to be made EKT since watmm's taken a solid place in my daily routine, but i wouldn't have paid a dime when i tentatively joined spurred on by an already subscribed friend on this board.

Make what you will of that.

edit: i voted 5 bucks though

5$ is more modest and seems fair and I bet would still help a lot....

new people will never pay it. this place is not internet wide by something awful. also if you did this i believe joyrex would have to give a shit what his members think. voluntary donation is entirely different.

the internet is free. everything on it is free. news site subscriptions will fail. no one will pay to join watmm.

bring back the ads

watmm isn't big enough to charge money for signing up.

Comparing this place to SA is lol.

I dont know, but it seems like charging to post here for the first time would only allow for the most desperate noobs to enter into the community, which doesnt exactly allow for the best and brightest.

not to mention i dont think theyd appreciate being chastised first thing after paying money for entry

EDIT: PAPER PLEASE COMRADE

yeah, we don't offer enough services to be charging anything....my love for watmm overshadowed my reason

  On 5/3/2010 at 10:36 PM, 24ourange said:

I dont know, but it seems like charging to post here for the first time would only allow for the most desperate noobs to enter into the community, which doesnt exactly allow for the best and brightest.

 

or just the rich elite

  On 5/3/2010 at 10:34 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

bring back the ads

  On 5/3/2010 at 10:36 PM, 24ourange said:

I dont know, but it seems like charging to post here for the first time would only allow for the most desperate noobs to enter into the community, which doesnt exactly allow for the best and brightest.

 

not to mention i dont think theyd appreciate being chastised first thing after paying money for entry

From my experience, there is really little money in a small line of google ads at the bottom of the page. But can't see how a pay-to-register would actually help the site. Seen lot of -20 posts users that just push some great stuff they've been involved in once and a while. Why would they pay €5 for that?

I didn't know you guys were that low on cash. I'll throw in a donation when my Paypal fills up.

EDIT: You could limit access to the downloads section though. As an extra incentive and to save bandwidth. But I guess the main problem is storage cost these days.

there are too many assholes on watmm so i voted $20 if i got watmm vol 2 cd again.

NGZVMOI

Paying to support a forum you are active on is one thing.

Paying to enter/sign up? No way.

  On 5/3/2010 at 11:02 PM, sidewinder said:

Paying to support a forum you are active on is one thing.

 

Paying to enter/sign up? No way.

Quoted for truth

doesn't have a big enough audience for that, says me.

  On 5/3/2010 at 10:34 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

the internet is free. everything on it is free. news site subscriptions will fail. no one will pay to join watmm.

 

bring back the ads

Unfortunately, we didn't get rid of the ads - they got rid of us!

  On 5/4/2010 at 12:08 AM, Joyrex said:

 

Unfortunately, we didn't get rid of the ads - they got rid of us!

what happened?

someone set WATMM up the bomb.

  On 5/3/2010 at 10:34 PM, messiaen said:

new people will never pay it. this place is not internet wide by something awful. also if you did this i believe joyrex would have to give a shit what his members think. voluntary donation is entirely different.

Who says I don't already? Just because I don't take everything into consideration (and act upon it) does not mean I don't "give a shit".

I wouldn't fucking pay to use watmm what the fuck you.

I pay for my ekt membership because I love this place. I wouldn't have joined if I had to pay up front.

  On 5/4/2010 at 12:12 AM, boris said:

I wouldn't fucking pay to use watmm what the fuck you.

Нельзя платить для watmma, что это чушь собачья

It wouldn't hurt to show a little skin JR. Take it or leave it.