Paid Premium Accounts

fallenangel · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject:

[quote]I don't think FAC Artwork is an answer for sales. Maybe just the impersonal FAC logo? Which we don't have. I don't think many people would choose to walk down a street with an anime girl or a cute lil' grem-kitty on thier chest..

Maybe a simple "I'm such a FACer" or "FAC THIS!" or something like that.

Maybe just a FAC logo if one were to be designed.[/quote]

Hm, I disagree. Sure, just a logo is easily offered (and will be, if someone designs and sends one! No one did), but I know [i]a lot[/i] of people who prefer it the other way around. Including me. Granted basically none of the art sent in appeals to me, but when it comes to things I do want to wear on a shirt, I like pictures.

What I'm wearing right now is a Bowie shirt from last year's tour with a bigass picture of him on the front. Picked it over a baby doll with just the logo and little star pattern. All my Faster Pussycat shirts have pictures on them as opposed to the line of just logos. Same goes for all but two of 'em.

Some people [i]like[/i] pictures. Smile

[quote]NO This has been an always will be a compleatly free website. Don't change it![/quote]

We're not changing it! Everything you have now will be left intact. Additional things for paying members will be purely small bonuses that likely wouldn't be added [i]at all[/i]. At least not all of them. So no "special treatment" is being given to subscribers at the expense of free members.
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rikuschick · Very bored Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Posts: 148

well, I'm pretty cheap, so, my limit for paying for a premium account wouldn't be more than about $10. I think some good features that would come w/ a premium account might be access to a private chat where paid members could just relax and mess around, & also have the words "site contributor" added to your FAC profile page....something tells me this has already been done. Laughing

oh well, if not it'd be a nice addition.

PhunkYMunkY · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject:

Yes I feel a FAChat would be good.

PhunkYMunkY · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject:

I'll be op again :0

:D hehehe

unfocused · Moderator Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 6983 Location: Texas

I'd love to design a logo :wub:
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KotokoPlum · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:48 am Post subject:

Maybe we could do something like animemusicvideos.org, where if you donate anything, anything at all, then you have all the special features forever... It could work, right? :huh:

unfocused · Moderator Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 6983 Location: Texas

What the hell is wrong with these people? A few dollars/euro/yen/whatever out of your pocket a month isn't going to hurt you. At this rate, the paid accounts aren't going to happen. f**k it. I guess it's all just spam when they say they love FAC.

I wasn't here when the donate link was up, I don't think, but if you're still taking donations, Denis, how can I do it?
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August · Still very bored Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 341

I'd pay for an account if I had a job, but I don't. I've been meaning to get one for like two months, but... Oops Smile

Um, the only problem with making premium accounts are that a lot of the members here, as it has been said before, are younger and don't have jobs so they can't pay to be premium members. There are some older members, though, and I think if we offered some really cool features they might actually get an account? We can't make it too expensive, either. Maybe you could make a special space to showcase the art of premium members? Or atleast have a list of them so more people will see their gallery. I think after we redesign the layout, maybe mess with the logo a bit, then we can do something like premium members. It'd also be good if we could get more people to join (Yes, I know how many people register per day, but how many stay and post?).

cstdenis · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject:

I haven't forgotten about this, I'm looking into various adverising stuff at the moment. Maybe on the weekend or next week I'll be able to better evaluate stuff related to this.
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CyberkittyKG · Member Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 46

I don't ever sign up for premium accounts. I just don't want to have to bother with it.

[quote]I don't think FAC Artwork is an answer for sales. Maybe just the impersonal FAC logo? Which we don't have. I don't think many people would choose to walk down a street with an anime girl or a cute lil' grem-kitty on thier chest..

Maybe a simple "I'm such a FACer" or "FAC THIS!" or something like that.

Maybe just a FAC logo if one were to be designed.[/quote]

I agree. (although I'm not saying that I hate the mascots, no offense)

[quote]Sure, just a logo is easily offered (and will be, if someone designs and sends one! No one did)[/quote]

Hmm...as soon as I finish all my art homework, I could try designing a logo with just the letters.

gothic_ginny · Still very bored Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 272

I think that premium accounts are a good idea. I'd get one most likely.. Cash, and check sound good. In addition to others, too, but those should definately be options.

Also for the features... the've all pretty much been listed. The one where you can see who'se favorite artist list you are on is cool. Also, maybe a count of how many people have one of your pictures in their favorites.

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rikuschick · Very bored Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Posts: 148

yeah, this has been mentioned before; I'm almost certain it has, but I think some notification of the people who've added you the their favorites list would be good for the people with the paid accounts. kind of like what DA does, it's one of the features I do like. ^^ maybe all the people who pay are automatically put on the auto-approval list.

Stratadrake · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 10:26 am Post subject:

[quote]maybe all the people who pay are automatically put on the auto-approval list.[/quote]
Um, no, auto-approval should not be something you could "buy".
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layzcarter · I used to work here Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3988

[quote]Um, no, auto-approval should not be something you could "buy".[/quote]

I dunno.... seems to me someone who pays for an account wouldn't be screwing around with it.
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layzcarter · I used to work here Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3988

Scraps... is too much like DA. But maybe something like it.... That would also encourage people to stick their crap in there... rather than having it show up as a recent submission and such.

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fallenangel · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject:

[quote] I think that people who pay should be able to customie their profile at like at Sheezy art. [/quote]

Oh good lord, no. Neon yellow text on a hot pink background was never and will never be a good idea. Especially for an art site. Minor options, like on Yahoo, for choosing border colors and such maybe, but backgrounds and text color always ends up badly. It used to be possible to do that on FAC profiles with code, and it got ridiculous.
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Kirby_kun · Newb Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 2

uhm... hi

Kirby_kun · Newb Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 2

fallenangel, i made request for you and i was wondering if possible you could draw it for me???

fallenangel · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject:

There's an edit button at the top of your posts if you want to add anything. Posting twice in a row is frowned upon (as is posting an off topic message in a thread).

I replied to your email earlier this afternoon.
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Zekk · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 3:17 am Post subject:

If there ever does get to be paid accounts, then a nice thing would be to be able to skip past having to post three times daily in the Sandbox, as well a few other features; though that would be key for me.