"Gold" membership - good idea?

[David Bailey]

Would people be interested in a "Gold" membership level, with lots of funky new features (don't ask me what features, I'm just thinking idly here)?

[robd]

Would people be interested in a "Gold" membership level, with lots of funky new features

Funky features?

How about gold members get a 'no refusal or your money back' guarantee for dances with SilverFox? Hang on, I'm not sure the PayPal servers could cope with the deluge....

Or the ability to be invisible from forumites you don't enjoy dancing with in real life as well as online

[Genie]

Would people be interested in a "Gold" membership level, with lots of funky new features (don't ask me what features, I'm just thinking idly here)?

I suppose that would depend on the funky new features and how much extra they would cost. I think it'd be an idea though I'd consider it.

[David Bailey]

I suppose that would depend on the funky new features and how much extra they would cost. I think it'd be an idea though I'd consider it.

Weeelll.... I dunno, but how about some level of control over threads you create? I'm sure a lot of people would love to share the whole joy of the moderation experience.

Actually, I've no idea what else is possible, feature-wise; someone technical should be able to suggest something however.

[Genie]

I don't think that would be such a good idea. Mod powers should stay with Mods. Too much scope for things to go wrong if you start dishing out part mod. powers to people who pay for it.

I'm not sure what else is available either, or what is possible. Some suggestions - custom handle/title, a different colour name on the right (from the orange/red it is), Golden Rep Power, Access to a special Golden Members section (not sure what you'd put in it though), special emoticons, ability to edit and delete their posts in any forum section... ok, I'm out of suggestions right now. If any more occur, I'll come back.

[David Bailey]

I don't think that would be such a good idea. Mod powers should stay with Mods. Too much scope for things to go wrong if you start dishing out part mod. powers to people who pay for it.

I think you missed the "For threads they create themselves" part - you can make an argument that if you create a thread, you could have some responsibility for (and interest in) keeping that thread on track.

I'm not sure what else is available either, or what is possible. Some suggestions - custom handle/title, a different colour name on the right (from the orange/red it is), Golden Rep Power, Access to a special Golden Members section (not sure what you'd put in it though), special emoticons, ability to edit and delete their posts in any forum section... ok, I'm out of suggestions right now. If any more occur, I'll come back.

They all sound like interesting suggestions.

EDIT: I've moved this debate to a "poll" thread, to see what people think.

[Gav]

Weeelll.... I dunno, but how about some level of control over threads you create? I'm sure a lot of people would love to share the whole joy of the moderation experience.

Actually, I've no idea what else is possible, feature-wise; someone technical should be able to suggest something however.

Coooool. I could delete every comment DJ makes on threads I created.

Only joking DJ, please don't delete all my Comments.....

[David Bailey]

Coooool. I could delete every comment DJ makes on threads I created.

You wouldn't miss anything.

Only joking DJ, please don't delete all my Comments.....

Blimey, you've got way too much time on your hands, and this is me saying it...

Seriously, if you create a thread, you might want the opportunity to steer it a bit more - what do you think?

[Lory]

Seriously, if you create a thread, you might want the opportunity to steer it a bit more - what do you think?

You can just leave all the posts that agree with you or say 'luvvy' things about you and delete the rest!

[David Bailey]

You can just leave all the posts that agree with you or say 'luvvy' things about you and delete the rest!

Hey, I do that anyway (err, oops, did I say that out loud?)

But the point is, if you did that to a thread, it'd just die because people wouldn't contibute to it, would they? Or am I assuming too much?

[Rhythm King]

But what about Platinum membership? Gold is so gauche dahhhling

(And then you'd need Black, for the seriously well-heeled...)

[foxylady]

But what about Platinum membership? Gold is so gouache dahhhling

(And then you'd need Black, for the seriously well-heeled...)

?????? A method of painting using pigments mixed with gum ?????

Or did you mean gauche dahhhling ????

[Rhythm King]

Just testing to see if anyone actually reads my drivel

Meanwhile, off to paint town red

[Gav]

You wouldn't miss anything.


Blimey, you've got way too much time on your hands, and this is me saying it...

Seriously, if you create a thread, you might want the opportunity to steer it a bit more - what do you think?

Seriously, NO!

Some people would abuse it, many more would complain about abuse and it'd all get silly in no time.

[Beowulf]

on another forum I use they use the same software as this one but have no timeout on edits. so you can go back after 10 mins, 15 mins, a week , a month or a year and still edit your posts.

Although this seems like it would mis-used it tends not to be. People tend to use it to update the first page of posts to include new information etc to allow people to get salient facts without trawling through pages and pages of forum. You can only edit your own posts, not those of others.

Also the ability to edit attachments would be nice. Hasn't happened to me but I know some users cannot attach any more images to the forum as their allocation is used up. Old pics etc (not in the gallery) could be deleted.

Also that forum allows us all to change our user title. Registered User etc.. without moderator intervention. Obviously you cannot change your title to Moderator etc.

These things .. dependant on price for gold membership.. I would probably sign up for.

[Dreadful Scathe]

Would people be interested in a "Gold" membership level, with lots of funky new features (don't ask me what features, I'm just thinking idly here)?

"thinking idly" theres a caption/tagline/slogan for ya

other than that, i have no comment on whether levels of membership is a good idea or not, stupid though it is

[azande]

One of the few features I would probably pay for is the ability to ignore individual threads and not whole sections of the forum...

[MartinHarper]

I want the ability to turn off the adverts for Blaze/Escape/Xmas ball. Oh, and the forum mood ring. Would that be a feature offered to Gold members?

[TheTramp]

I want the ability to turn off the adverts for Blaze/Escape/Xmas ball. Oh, and the forum mood ring. Would that be a feature offered to Gold members?

To be honest, I don't even notice the Blaze/Escape stuff at all. I noticed the Christmas Ball stuff at first. But not any more.

I did notice the forum mood ring. Don't see the point of it though. Especially considering that you can vote on it multiple times, one after another. But I'll probably get used to ignoring it pretty quickly

[Genie]

I want the ability to turn off the adverts for Blaze/Escape/Xmas ball. Oh, and the forum mood ring. Would that be a feature offered to Gold members?

They are very annoying.