dont worry, it's YAOMGWBE

[Theben]

If Mark's gonna use in-line advertising, he should put them in all forums.

[ixnay]

Ugh, these things are annoying and intrusive, but I'll put up with them if needed.

It's not like I ever buy anything from an internet ad, anyways.

[Inverse Icarus]

take a page from somethingawful. forget the paid membership, unless you can offer extra features.

examples would include searching, custom titles, and perhaps larger avatars (filesize, anyway).

if you're not into that, you could do the OTHER things, most notably selling avatars. anybody on somethingawful can pay $10 to change ANYONE ELSE'S avatar / custom title. do you have any idea how hillarious that could be? imagine if you started charging for avatars (locking current ones as is, to be fair). take somethingawful's rates: $5 to change your own, $10 to change someone else.

imagine ag paying $10 to change asher's avatar to the OSX logo, and then asher would either take it, or pay $5 to have it changed back.

cha-ching.

[Potassium]

^^^ This man knows what he is talking about. That whole thing would be hilarious. Plus, this way, you can get rid of the whole "get to 500 posts and get a shiny new avatar!~~~!!!" thing. If someone without that many posts wants one, they can pay 5 bucks to get one.

As for changing others avatars, the mods would go through and verify that each one was in ine with the forum rules. No huge red text of "I AM A ****ING TROLL. DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYTHING I HAVE TO SAY. EVER." kind of titles.

I would gladly pay for such a type of membership.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Potassium
As for changing others avatars, the mods would go through and verify that each one was in ine with the forum rules. No huge red text of "I AM A ****ING TROLL. DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYTHING I HAVE TO SAY. EVER." kind of titles.

i personally love those the best, but alas, that is a different breed of forum entirely.

i would gladly pay $10 to make Fez's avatar Ernesto Che Guevara.

[Jaguar]

Clearly these ads-in-posts should be implemented equally in all forums.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Uber KruX


i personally love those the best, but alas, that is a different breed of forum entirely.

i would gladly pay $10 to make Fez's avatar Ernesto Che Guevara.

Add me to that list.

[Potassium]

Originally posted by Uber KruX
i personally love those the best, but alas, that is a different breed of forum entirely.

Some of the titles are works of art.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Uber KruX


imagine ag paying $10 to change asher's avatar to the OSX logo, and then asher would either take it, or pay $5 to have it changed back.

cha-ching.

As if I'd waste ten bucks on him.

[Asher]

HOW IS THIS

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Well I guess I'm crossing "Get a Paypal account" off my "to do" list now.

No ****!

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Uber KruX
examples would include searching, custom titles, and perhaps larger avatars (filesize, anyway).

searching has been free since the begining of this site, we're not going to make it a privilege of the few
custom titles are left for the future
larger avatars are already in

anybody on somethingawful can pay $10 to change ANYONE ELSE'S avatar / custom title.

so we'll turn apolyton into a place where the rich can have fun in the expense of the poor?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Hell once the checks start arriving, I'd go on a spamming spree.

Not me. I'll continue with my oh so witty and informative posting tradition.

[Boris Godunov]

The ads-in-posts suck worse than pop-ups. They are intrusive and can lead to people "endorsing" things they find personally repugnant. Not cool at all.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Why would he leave if he can make some extra cash .

The best thing about this is that, instead of having OT posts count towards his postcount, they count towards his bank account

can you say