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Please Vote - Considering Major Changes for Classifeds

Would charging non-supporters $1 a month to post in the classifieds hurt the site?

  • Yes, charging $1 a month would hurt the site and is a bad idea.

    Votes: 713 54.5%
  • No, $1 is cheap enough to not lose people over it.

    Votes: 596 45.5%

  • Total voters
    1,309
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On second thought regarding what I wrote the other day, I would be in favor of some kind of tiered system that still allowed free membership and posting for a small number of posts for us small time users, with increasing levels of benefits for increasing amounts of fees

I like this idea but one post is right it’s up to the owner and yes like he said he likes sitting at home and playing with the site so hope it all works out I’ll still be around looking
I think tiered or try it and you’ll like it type of system would only encourage more “New, not New” members.
 
Yeah, seriously, I would put all my differences aside to say I did it. I dont discriminate.

Yeah, I mean, while she is a complete moonbat, she's actually a pretty good looking woman...
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If I may bring this thread back to it's original and intended purpose...I find myself agreeing with @JWC - make ODT a pay site and everyone becomes a "member." Now, "member" may mean different things to different people. To some, it may mean something in one's pants but to many of the rest of us, it also denotes belonging in some fashion to an organization in which we find value. What I see in this thread is more divisiveness than family. Whatever else I believe prompted Okuma not-Steve to post this at this time, I do not believe he intended to be divisive. Given the general quality of debate here on ODT, I'm not sure I would have asked for opinions. However, by doing so and in explaining the nature of the market forces at work on ODT generally, he has precipitated a landslide of new supporters. He has altered the way I, and perhaps some of you, think about the site. That is not a bad thing but it may also be a clever manipulation. Or it may not be. It could have been a very clever, very shrewd move or one that was naive. I cannot say - I've met Okuma exactly once in the seven and a half years I've been here. In my mind neither of those potentialities reflect well on him. I would have preferred to see him lay out the compelling, and they are actually existential, reasons why he needed to institute a pay system, tell us how much, and by when the "membership" fee needed to be paid. This thread has become something more akin to H.G. Wells', The Time Machine, with the virtuous Eloi (Supporters) and the evil Morlock slackers...errrr...I mean, non-supporters arguing minor tangential points ad infinitum. I appreciate the framework Okuma has built here but remember it is you and I who have populated it. Having skin in the game is the next step. For full disclosure, I have been a supporter but am not currently.

Okuma Okuma do what it is you need to do and then close this eyesore of a thread. Just my $.02...
 
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