Charging for new member accounts

  On 5/3/2010 at 10:02 PM, chassis said:

I'll give you a tenner to ban Boxing Day.

give them the option to pay 10 bucks or post a youtube of them reading the rules

very bad idea.

Perhaps charging for lifetime membership status might work, but charging for general membership is going to discourage most people from signing up.

this is a ltms secret act to reveal who are not willing to pay and are therefore to be banned when the next crisis is upon us

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

how about 3 dollars to be able to post your own topics?

  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

I will quote someone's post and type "lol" for a buck; "this" for a buck fifty.

how much for a gif of a robot fucking watmm in the ass while watching the windowlicker video on youtube?

ridiculous idea from where I'm sitting

  On 5/4/2010 at 12:26 AM, JW Modestburns said:

very bad idea.

 

Perhaps charging for lifetime membership status might work, but charging for general membership is going to discourage most people from signing up.

the thing is, we've had membership closed for months in the past. it didn't hurt. i know people emailed me asking to pay to join at least once.

  On 5/4/2010 at 12:36 AM, Fred McGriff said:

I will quote someone's post and type "lol" for a buck; "this" for a buck fifty.

I like your thinking Fred. I would like to offer my services over in Your Latest Creations.

I will

listen to your entire track for $0.50

post heartfelt constructive criticism for $0.25 - $1.00 depending on how overwhelmingly supportive you need me to be

make wisecracks in your song thread to drive more traffic your way for only $0.15

i will berate and discourage your peers thus making you seem fantastic by comparison for as little as $0.50

sample: "woah. that's was awful"

  On 5/4/2010 at 12:48 AM, chaosmachine said:

  On 5/4/2010 at 12:26 AM, JW Modestburns said:

very bad idea.

 

Perhaps charging for lifetime membership status might work, but charging for general membership is going to discourage most people from signing up.

 

the thing is, we've had membership closed for months in the past. it didn't hurt. i know people emailed me asking to pay to join at least once.

lol, i was one of those like 4 years ago when i bought the wattm volume 1 comp. thanks for getting back to me.

anyway, maybe you could limit unpaid subscriptions even further. for example, as a limited/free member, you'd be able to post, but you wouldn't be able to have an avatar, or see pictures posted, etc. i think this place is worthy of a few bucks to be a part of, but i wouldn't have paid anything initially.

  On 5/4/2010 at 12:58 AM, Rambo said:

  On 5/4/2010 at 12:36 AM, Fred McGriff said:

I will quote someone's post and type "lol" for a buck; "this" for a buck fifty.

 

I like your thinking Fred. I would like to offer my services over in Your Latest Creations.

 

I will

listen to your entire track for $0.50

 

post heartfelt constructive criticism for $0.25 - $1.00 depending on how overwhelmingly supportive you need me to be

 

make wisecracks in your song thread to drive more traffic your way for only $0.15

 

i will berate and discourage your peers thus making you seem fantastic by comparison for as little as $0.50

 

sample: "woah. that's was awful"

lol/this

(my lol/this combo is only $1.99)

*prints invoice*

i'll be racist in your thread for a fiver

what happened to you? You're obssessed

stumbling upon watmm was like a dream come true (nightmare in retrospect) but I wouldn't have paid initially.

potential new members would have to be able to see everything that they could be a part of to even consider paying to get access to what they were missing.

so I put $10 to keep out the riffraff

How about a free intro period? That way we can get them hooked before they have to pay anything. It's like any good coke dealer says: "The first taste is free"

I only paid money so Joyrex would like me/talk to me.

It didn't work.

  On 5/4/2010 at 1:47 AM, hautlle said:

How about a free intro period? That way we can get them hooked before they have to pay anything. It's like any good coke dealer says: "The first taste is free"

This actually seems sensible. If they get put off by "read the rules" they can just let their temporary free subscription expire, no harm no foul. If they like it here, then they're more likely to shell out 10$ or so as they have something to ascribe worth to.

Nobody can put a price on watmm except in retrospect.

You could implement shareware-esque reminders after a certain period (or perhaps immediately). Wikipedia does it (only on occasion, I admit). Just put a big banner on the top of every page that says WATMM NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT or every time a user logs in they're asked, "Is today the day you will be donating?" and the radio button for no is replaced with .

i just purchased a subscription

if there was a proper download section like before (and not just for featured artists) I may be tempted to pay a small initial fee

If like other forums like SA etc. By buying your accounts, people who have previously banned should have the right to buy a new one. (profit for website, and makes the user take their account more seriously), and it should also make it ok for people to make Dupes if they really want to. If these where applied I would most. definitely be fore paid accounts. You should also maybe give discounts to record label owners/artists who want to promote on our website but aren't regular members? I think because this site is a big part of the online IDM/electronic music community that could be fair?

$10,

keep all the 15 year olds out.