New Membership Options

Gallery comments would no longer count toward post counts, a move that was planned anyway.

Your current post counts would not be wiped out. If you currently have 500 posts then you become Silver and over 1,000 Gold.

There is nothing I can do about the PM storage. It is the biggest bottleneck that we've got. Have you noticed how long it takes to open up your PMs? There are currently 553,390 pms stored on the server. However, my thinking is that those who post more should get more PM storage. Also, I think it is a part of the site worth paying for, no?

Maybe if there was a way to save them in a better format - because I've used the save function and what comes outthe other end is not particularly readable. I know that is really our own problem. There probably isn't really another option there either. I guess we're all PM whores

I reitterate my suggestion to up those post count milestones though. Or offer membership at 50% discount to members with those counts and give free membership to people with high post counts and longevity.

That's an interesting idea. Maybe (and I don't know if this can be coded or not) 25% for 250, 50% for 500, etc.

just a thought on the pm's, is it possible to add a function to be able to forward them to an email address so u could store anything u really wanted to keep, i know having looked at mine ive kept most of them uneccesarily just because i have the ability to do so rather than take the time to delete.

That a good idea.. I store everything in my email. Saving them off here is far too much trouble to try and find the ones I want to read after.

I really like this idea of the 50% discount , and I agree with MB you don't want to lose money ( ROB E), hence up the post count, and give percentage discounts accordingly.

Other than that, I like what you have proposed.

I like the proposals and not including gallery comments in the post count is a good move.At first I thought the post count milestones seemed a bit low,but maybe they're about right.Time will tell.

geek0 - Do you have a Yahoo or Hotmail address? Copy and paste any messages you want to save,then send them from your main email address to your Yahoo/Hotmail one.

Yeah i wasnt really worried about it they can always be copied manually i just thought if it was possible to forward them straight to an email addy from the forum it would be a handy function for those who were worried about losing anything

MY only concern is that people will fill the site with 500 random posts and then BAM, Silver membership.

The idea is interesting, but at the same time, you might be getting floods of people trying to get to that gold and silver membership. I'd definitely make them higher.

I can see it would be quick and convenient for those who don't want to save too many.For the serious message hoarders it's better to stick as many as they can into a single email.
I have a lot of messages that I should have deleted by now.I'll get round to it soon - that's a promise Rob!

To prevent "random posts" that Jeff mentioned maybe those under 500/1000 could be limited 5/10 posts per day? Or whatever is deemed appropriate.

My current average is 3.4 PPD but I've been more active lately.

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Originally Posted by SteveHd Very good! -Would I be correct in assuming that our existing posts are counted?

Gosh I hope so, I do not want to have to start all over again.

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Originally Posted by ManlyBanisters I think you'll be doing yourself out of $$$ if you are giving away Silver and Gold for as little as 500 and 1000 posts.

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Originally Posted by Think_Kink The numbers are far too low.. do they include gallery comments? Why does this matter to you missy?

3,000 and 5,000 seems fair

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Originally Posted by Rob_E Gallery comments would no longer count toward post counts, a move that was planned anyway.

Yes, it is.

[quote=jeff black;963616] MY only concern is that people will fill the site with 500 random posts and then BAM, Silver membership. Bingo! that is my concern as well. As a matter of fact it's been happening a lot just this week.

The idea is interesting, but at the same time, you might be getting floods of people trying to get to that gold and silver membership.

Well, I have to admit that I am a part of the high post count.

I tend to have around 50-100 PM's a day. I'm not saying this to be cocky, I just mean that I send and reciever around that many PMs a day. I try to clean my box as often as possible, but I have hit the 1000 mark more than a few times before deleting it.

Perhaps if members were encouraged to clear their boxes on a weekly/ monthly period?

I say 1,000 Posts is too low (For gold), Bump it up to like 2,000.

as much as I love this forum for various reasons I can't afford to pay for a membership. All I can try to do is offer some good content postwise and welcome new members.

I think support should be the key here as in supporting each other, not attacking each other!