Will the membership dues allow us to boot vendors that continually lie/sttrrreeeetttttccccchhhhh the truth? And when people pay to be on this site, all who have paid should be able to evaluate vendors and make yearly recommendations on who stays and goes?
Will the membership dues allow us to boot vendors that continually lie/sttrrreeeetttttccccchhhhh the truth? And when people pay to be on this site, all who have paid should be able to evaluate vendors and make yearly recommendations on who stays and goes?
I shouldn't have to download a special internet browser with special plug-ins and turn off this and that to get the site to load like it used to
I feel like this site is on a dial-up connection
That's annoying
Also, like NoisufnoC mentioned, do we really need 5 banner ads and 4 sidebar ads?
That's over the top
9 ads? Come on now
If I have pay money I want to have speed lightning fast load times, ZERO ads of any kinds, no wait time in between posts, no trolls/spammers/scammers and the ability to change the color of my name from blue to whatever I want
Other than that, good "upgrade"
Sidebar ads? I'm not seeing any and everything loads just as fast as normal... Maybe because I'm on a Mac...
there's a lot of good ways to make money with a website.
annoying your visitors into paying for less annoyance isnt one of them.
annoying your visitors into paying for less annoyance and *still annoying them* certainly isn't one of them
i'm sure the cashflow is nice now, but arent you guys just looking at one big cashout from the current members? new members arent going to stick around to discover the benefits of paying. they're gonna show up, and when the page isnt loaded in 10 seconds decide the site sucks and never come back.
i'm not averse to paying for extra features like the bigger pm box and uploads, and 40 bucks for lifetime seems reasonable for that - but at the same time, have some decency and at least leave the site in a usable state for basic members. with all the paid advertising here, basic members should have fewer ad networks(because they're clearly the issue with load times), and paid members should have NONE(except for the direct vendors)
i've always defended ekool and his right to turn a profit on what he puts in here, and i still do. but theres a point where it goes from making a comfortable living, to holding your supporters up by their ankles and shaking them down.
That's my point. If you don't pay, this site is going to be unbearable.
If you ARE going to charge for certain privileges, at least make sure you know what those are (and that the site is running decent) before you
drop the bomb.
It doesn't (at this point) seem like there are going to be many "new features", you just took away a bunch of old features, and selling them back.
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I clicked disable and saved changes and Nothing
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