PayPal idea.

[Agent Proto]

To be a recognized member, you have to be recognized by the staff. That's not something you want to pay $20 dollars for. Paying $12 or $20 dollars for extra PM space is reasonable, and so should be paying $10 or $20 and below, to have your account unbanned, if you believe you deserve a "second chance." And the staff should decide whether to accept the payment and unban the account.

...WHY DO YOU GUYS HATE MY IDEAS?? I THOUGHT IT WAS WORTHWHILE TO BRING UP. ITS NOT LIKE EVERY BANNED PERSON CAN AFFORD TO PAY TO BE UNBANNED AFTER SIX MONTHS, OR MAYB A YEAR...

God, I hate how everyone is treating my ideas as smurfing .

[Yamaneko]

We don't want anyone back that was banned only six months ago.

[Samuraid]

Both "Banned" and "Recognized Member" titles are earned. Getting full PM storage space isn't something you can earn. So that's why extra PM space can be bought, and custom titles and status cannot.

[eestlinc]

well you can earn full PM storage space by being invited to join staff.

[Old Manus]

To punish people for joing the forum too late, charge registerees $10 a month for registration

For an avatar it is $5 for a database one, and an extra $2 a day storage space for an uploaded avatar

When it comes to signatures, it is $1 per pixel. People are encouraged to break size limits to get banned and pay to get unbanned

After 100 posts, it is a $20 fixed charge to access forums other than General Archive

Custom Titles are available for free after 8 months or immediately with a $2 a month charge until 8 months are up

So much good will come of this, nobody will join and complain to the papers who will in turn publiscise the forum, bringing more members. Employment rates will rise due to people needing to pay registration costs

If we start now, we can experience a 200% rise in profits by 2008

[Dr Unne]

Have you considered making up a new custom title that people can buy which comes with no other rewards at all? Like an "I Gave Cid Money" title, indicating that you give a crap about EoFF enough to give Sean money. If you make it pretty colors, people will buy it. People will then feel special because everyone now knows that they gave Sean money.

That kind of title would be something people earn, too. By giving Sean money.

[RSL]

...WHY DO YOU GUYS HATE MY IDEAS?? I THOUGHT IT WAS WORTHWHILE TO BRING UP. ITS NOT LIKE EVERY BANNED PERSON CAN AFFORD TO PAY TO BE UNBANNED AFTER SIX MONTHS, OR MAYB A YEAR...

God, I hate how everyone is treating my ideas as smurfing .

If Cid himself had posted this exact same thread, I would've said the same things. The only difference would be that he could tell me where to go and do it anyway.

[The Man]

I approve of Unne's idea. You could also allow people to pay for larger avatars.

[RSL]

Unne's idea I could go for, but that would be up to Cid. I wouldn't like the avatar thing, however, as everyone having different sized avatars would be ugly.

[Psychotic]

...WHY DO YOU GUYS HATE MY IDEAS?? I THOUGHT IT WAS WORTHWHILE TO BRING UP. ITS NOT LIKE EVERY BANNED PERSON CAN AFFORD TO PAY TO BE UNBANNED AFTER SIX MONTHS, OR MAYB A YEAR...

God, I hate how everyone is treating my ideas as smurfing .

If you're so sensitive about your ideas, then don't post them in a public forum.

This idea might even lose EoFF some revenue. Think about it, if people kept getting away with breaking rules whenever they wanted, the less likely other people would be to want to stay, and so ad revenue is diminished.

Also, the staff might even start handing out bans more readily because of this, and then someone who doesn't want to pay and wouldn't have been banned originally loses out.

Finally, I think it'd undermine what little authority the staff of an internet forum actually have left.

[Agent Proto]

But I wasn't suggesting that every banned person would do this. Certainly, the staff will also have a part in this process too. Wouldn't they? I mean, they wouldn't want someone who was troublesome before they got banned to return, now would they? Of course not.

[eestlinc]

as opposed to someone who wasn't troublesome before they got banned?

[Yamaneko]

We don't want anyone back that was banned only six months ago.

Or even a year.

[Rye]

I like Unne's idea, I was thinking about it myself too. That, I think, people would go for.

[RSL]

they wouldn't want someone who was troublesome before they got banned to return, now would they? Of course not.

This is the problem with your idea. If we didn't find them troublesome, if we didn't WANT them banned, they wouldn't be banned. You were on staff for a very long time, you should realize this.