Buying premium reopens forum access

[mrswdk]

Concise description:

• Buying premium enables permas to access fora as well as games

Specifics/Details:

• ditto

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• If people banned can pay their way back on to the fora as well as back into games, those who enjoy both sides of the site in equal measure may be more likely to pay to return following a ban
• Higher rate of ex members being shaken down for cash opting to return to the site
• More $$$ for CC

[GoranZ]

Well Facebook is not payed service so CC forum shouldn't be also... but you can force fremiums to watch commercials before they read the forum as FB does
And inline commercials can be added also.
So generally I agree with your proposal that freemiums should somehow pay back for using the CC forum.

[Thorthoth]

For mr. swdk.

[chapcrap]

Well Facebook is not payed service so CC forum shouldn't be also... but you can force fremiums to watch commercials before they read the forum as FB does
And inline commercials can be added also.
So generally I agree with your proposal that freemiums should somehow pay back for using the CC forum.

I think you miss the point on this...

He is requesting forum access after being banned if he buys premium. He is not saying that you should have to be premium to access the forums.

[GoranZ]

Well Facebook is not payed service so CC forum shouldn't be also... but you can force fremiums to watch commercials before they read the forum as FB does
And inline commercials can be added also.
So generally I agree with your proposal that freemiums should somehow pay back for using the CC forum.

I think you miss the point on this...

He is requesting forum access after being banned if he buys premium. He is not saying that you should have to be premium to access the forums.

I understood the proposal, but CC should do as Facebook(or other services that offer similar service). Commercials for nonpaying members. So basically no service is shortened but commercials are added to some members.

[Metsfanmax]

Concise description:

• Buying premium enables permas to access fora as well as games

Specifics/Details:

• ditto

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• If people banned can pay their way back on to the fora as well as back into games, those who enjoy both sides of the site in equal measure may be more likely to pay to return following a ban
• Higher rate of ex members being shaken down for cash opting to return to the site
• More $$$ for CC

Isn't this already the case? If you get site banned for breaking the rules, and buy your way back, surely you have forum access enabled if it was before?

[Shannon Apple]

I disagree with this. Often times, people are banned from the forum for good reason, but still allowed to continue playing. If they could simply buy back onto the forum and continue their shitty behaviour, what would be the point in banning them in the first place?

Bear in mind, it is extremely difficult to get forum banned in the first place around here. You have to be exceptionally bad and already given plenty of chances before it happens.

[Symmetry]

I doubt anyone wants to see Mrsdwk back to his old tricks on the forums.

[riskllama]

I disagree with this. Often times, people are banned from the forum for good reason, but still allowed to continue playing. If they could simply buy back onto the forum and continue their shitty behaviour, what would be the point in banning them in the first place?

Bear in mind, it is extremely difficult to get forum banned in the first place around here. You have to be exceptionally bad and already given plenty of chances before it happens.

if u guys are letting xtra post his crap, i think xeno deserves a shot at redemption.

[TeeGee]

if u guys are letting xtra post his crap, i think xeno deserves a shot at redemption.

Xtra appealed his ban sucessfully, xeno has the option to do the same.

[mrswdk]

Concise description:

• Buying premium enables permas to access fora as well as games

Specifics/Details:

• ditto

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• If people banned can pay their way back on to the fora as well as back into games, those who enjoy both sides of the site in equal measure may be more likely to pay to return following a ban
• Higher rate of ex members being shaken down for cash opting to return to the site
• More $$$ for CC

Isn't this already the case? If you get site banned for breaking the rules, and buy your way back, surely you have forum access enabled if it was before?

xeno bought premium recently but still can't post on the forums.

[Thorthoth]

Concise description:

• Buying premium enables permas to access fora as well as games

Specifics/Details:

• ditto

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• If people banned can pay their way back on to the fora as well as back into games, those who enjoy both sides of the site in equal measure may be more likely to pay to return following a ban
• Higher rate of ex members being shaken down for cash opting to return to the site
• More $$$ for CC

Isn't this already the case? If you get site banned for breaking the rules, and buy your way back, surely you have forum access enabled if it was before?

xeno bought premium recently but still can't post on the forums.

So what exactly did this xeno person do? It must be ancient history, and thanks to the great forum purge there is now no record of it.

[Shannon Apple]

I disagree with this. Often times, people are banned from the forum for good reason, but still allowed to continue playing. If they could simply buy back onto the forum and continue their shitty behaviour, what would be the point in banning them in the first place?

Bear in mind, it is extremely difficult to get forum banned in the first place around here. You have to be exceptionally bad and already given plenty of chances before it happens.

if u guys are letting xtra post his crap, i think xeno deserves a shot at redemption.

I'm not a mod anymore.

[riskllama]

I disagree with this. Often times, people are banned from the forum for good reason, but still allowed to continue playing. If they could simply buy back onto the forum and continue their shitty behaviour, what would be the point in banning them in the first place?

Bear in mind, it is extremely difficult to get forum banned in the first place around here. You have to be exceptionally bad and already given plenty of chances before it happens.

if u guys are letting xtra post his crap, i think xeno deserves a shot at redemption.

I'm not a mod anymore.

thx for that, shannon...

[Metsfanmax]

Concise description:

• Buying premium enables permas to access fora as well as games

Specifics/Details:

• ditto

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• If people banned can pay their way back on to the fora as well as back into games, those who enjoy both sides of the site in equal measure may be more likely to pay to return following a ban
• Higher rate of ex members being shaken down for cash opting to return to the site
• More $$$ for CC

Isn't this already the case? If you get site banned for breaking the rules, and buy your way back, surely you have forum access enabled if it was before?

xeno bought premium recently but still can't post on the forums.

xeno was the worst possible example you could have given if you wanted to generate support for this suggestion.

[mrswdk]

Concise description:

• Buying premium enables permas to access fora as well as games

Specifics/Details:

• ditto

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• If people banned can pay their way back on to the fora as well as back into games, those who enjoy both sides of the site in equal measure may be more likely to pay to return following a ban
• Higher rate of ex members being shaken down for cash opting to return to the site
• More $$$ for CC

Isn't this already the case? If you get site banned for breaking the rules, and buy your way back, surely you have forum access enabled if it was before?

xeno bought premium recently but still can't post on the forums.

xeno was the worst possible example you could have given if you wanted to generate support for this suggestion.

BBS bought premium recently but still can't post on the forums.

[riskllama]

what?

[chapcrap]

Well Facebook is not payed service so CC forum shouldn't be also... but you can force fremiums to watch commercials before they read the forum as FB does
And inline commercials can be added also.
So generally I agree with your proposal that freemiums should somehow pay back for using the CC forum.

I think you miss the point on this...

He is requesting forum access after being banned if he buys premium. He is not saying that you should have to be premium to access the forums.

I understood the proposal, but CC should do as Facebook(or other services that offer similar service). Commercials for nonpaying members. So basically no service is shortened but commercials are added to some members.

I guess I thought you misunderstood because that's already what happens. People who aren't premium have advertisements.

[Metsfanmax]

Concise description:

• Buying premium enables permas to access fora as well as games

Specifics/Details:

• ditto

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• If people banned can pay their way back on to the fora as well as back into games, those who enjoy both sides of the site in equal measure may be more likely to pay to return following a ban
• Higher rate of ex members being shaken down for cash opting to return to the site
• More $$$ for CC

Isn't this already the case? If you get site banned for breaking the rules, and buy your way back, surely you have forum access enabled if it was before?

xeno bought premium recently but still can't post on the forums.

xeno was the worst possible example you could have given if you wanted to generate support for this suggestion.

BBS bought premium recently but still can't post on the forums.

Don't toy with my heart like that

[IcePack]

Concise description:

• Buying premium enables permas to access fora as well as games

Specifics/Details:

• ditto

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• If people banned can pay their way back on to the fora as well as back into games, those who enjoy both sides of the site in equal measure may be more likely to pay to return following a ban
• Higher rate of ex members being shaken down for cash opting to return to the site
• More $$$ for CC

Isn't this already the case? If you get site banned for breaking the rules, and buy your way back, surely you have forum access enabled if it was before?

xeno bought premium recently but still can't post on the forums.

So what exactly did this xeno person do? It must be ancient history, and thanks to the great forum purge there is now no record of it that I know of

Fixed

[mrswdk]

If none of xeno's old posts exist, doesn't that mean he never actually did anything and must now be reinstated?

[Dukasaur]

If none of xeno's old posts exist, doesn't that mean he never actually did anything and must now be reinstated?

If you went back in time and killed your father before you were conceived, would you cease to exist?

[mrswdk]

If none of xeno's old posts exist, doesn't that mean he never actually did anything and must now be reinstated?

If you went back in time and killed your father before you were conceived, would you cease to exist?

But if you ceased to exist then you would never have been able to go back in time and kill your father, in which case he would go ahead and have you anyway.

I think if you do stupid stuff like that the world 404s.

In this case I think xeno just became a 0 years-old poster though. Verdict: reinstated

[Thorthoth]

The original suggestion that startedt his thread was complete nonsense, so of course most of what follows is only more so. Let's move this to OT (16SOR,NG)