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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 255382" data-attributes="member: 13196"><p>If you keep it as an option to pay (and thus receive perks), I can see where it would work. As others mentioned, the cost will be a factor. I've been on forums where the annual cost varies between $15-$25. One forum allows paying members to sell items for free. If a non-paying member wants to sell something, there is either a $5 or $10 fee for a one-month selling privilege (can't remember the exact price), and I believe the member needs to have a minimum post count which allows other members to determine whether the seller seems credible.</p><p></p><p>Since you are the owner of the site, I can see where you need to offset the cost of the forum. There are a lot of behind-the-scenes work necessary to keep everything updated plus lots of other things to which we are not privy. </p><p></p><p>However, I would hope that before anything like this gets implemented, the kinks of the forum switch get worked out first. The email notification is delayed by many hours at best (when it works which still seems to be spotty), and I thought part of the switch was to make the forum faster. I haven't noticed the pages loading more quickly than they did before the switch BUT perhaps that is just my computer.</p><p></p><p>Overall, it's a <em>yes</em> from me providing the forum gets back to running at least as well as it did before the switch. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hark, post: 255382, member: 13196"] If you keep it as an option to pay (and thus receive perks), I can see where it would work. As others mentioned, the cost will be a factor. I've been on forums where the annual cost varies between $15-$25. One forum allows paying members to sell items for free. If a non-paying member wants to sell something, there is either a $5 or $10 fee for a one-month selling privilege (can't remember the exact price), and I believe the member needs to have a minimum post count which allows other members to determine whether the seller seems credible. Since you are the owner of the site, I can see where you need to offset the cost of the forum. There are a lot of behind-the-scenes work necessary to keep everything updated plus lots of other things to which we are not privy. However, I would hope that before anything like this gets implemented, the kinks of the forum switch get worked out first. The email notification is delayed by many hours at best (when it works which still seems to be spotty), and I thought part of the switch was to make the forum faster. I haven't noticed the pages loading more quickly than they did before the switch BUT perhaps that is just my computer. Overall, it's a [I]yes[/I] from me providing the forum gets back to running at least as well as it did before the switch. ;) [/QUOTE]
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