Ashhad[/URL said:
1720759]Actually by doing this we just might be able to get rid of all the people who spam around and are making the forums a living hell for everyone...
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No. They won't get rid of you and me
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Jokes aside, the 2 threads for a normal and more than that for paid/pay a portion of the selling price of the good or whatever for the marketplace thing seems very much doable.
Apart from that, how about:
- Every time we have a meetup, a portion of the revenue goes to PGs running cost. This way, we can have more meetups as an incentive to keep it running. I'm sure no one will mind a minimal cost.
What do we pay? I think it was around 300 the last time I went. Shelling out another 100 should be no biggie. So, 100 form everyone who attends can go towards the running cost of PG. Sure, it'll still be very less, but lets say, umm 30 people make it to the meetup, that's 3000 from there alone. Better than nothing, no? Furthermore, the frequency of meetups can be increased too. The price towards PG could be increased to 200 too, and that'd make it even better
- Donation collection points be meetups.
Okay. I mean to say, when on the meetup, someone responsible, from team PG or otherwise, be appointed as a treasurer or something, who can collect donations at the hand and hand it over to the hierarchy or whatever. What's the point? 1- people who cannot pay due to bank charges will be able to pay up, ofcourse at personal choice 2- the hassle of going to the bank for them will be eliminated.
- Bring back the incentive for donations with the VIP stuff on most forums. Like, the special colour, extended PM box, etc.
- Request sponsorship from hardware/gaming websites/shops. Like, galaxy, imx, aiprotech etc. I'm sure they'd be willing to invest in it. In return, you could perhaps give them an exclusive subfourm where they could deal with queries related to their store/site directly? so that they have an incentive to keep investing in here.
- Use alternatives to Adsense - Buysellads, Clicksor, I think infolinks is decent too.
- Appeal/revoking the ban by ironing it out with Google.
- Increased fee for Mkt place premium.
- Removal at market place at all, if that helps ease the load and shift the forum to a cheaper server.