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Points for membership?

I was just thinking, with all the points we get the only thing we can really do with them is hold a contest - and not everybody likes doing that.

so I was just thinking why cant we buy membership with points?
I mean - nothing stupid like 100 poitns = 1 month of membership, but perhaps like 1000-2000 points = 1 months membership.

Just a suggestion because not everyone has the money yo buy membership

(I mean I know the site needs money but I know I'm not the only person who has dead-weight points lying around...)

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The problem with points to go toward membership privileges, is then it would be a lot like another writing site that I know of for starters (not saying anything bad here, I just have some opinions that I care not to share lol)... for seconds, it would take an equivalent of a lot of points to probably get a month's worth of just a silver membership. I'm talking 10,000-12,000 points perhaps. And for thirds, it may make people lose interest in spending points on the other features of the site (which is the original intention of the site- contests, rewards, features, gifts, etc.) in order to save up points for the extra membership features.

I honestly don't know how the idea would work.

However, I do think an interesting neat idea that could be incorporated with your points idea, might could be that once a month, a member could spend say 500-1000 points to be a silver or a gold member for a day (the 500 for silver, the 1000 for gold) in order to make spice-up changes to their profile?? Maybe that would be a neat idea? And the site could only allow the feature to be used once a month (other than winning top commentor award of course) so that it's not abused? Just a thought anyway

Actually

That idea does make sense, and might encourage people to be fairly active on the site. Even a thousand points is a LOT for casual users, so only the ones that go on the site daily and comment on tons of entries would ever have enough points to get a membership like that. At the same time, I can defiantly see the flaws. That might mean less money for the site, and that means less updates, and less time kevin can devote to the site for improvements.

When I first joined I thought you could do this at "Store" but actually it was to BUT points, not to buy a membership

I'm gradually closing down on a writing site which has a 'purchase membership with points' system.

It's a nightmare, lots of 'charities' begging for your points, running treasure hunts, etc. They're supposed to help out members who can't afford to pay for their little place on the site.

The Spam, scams and destruction of the writing atmosphere got me down, which is why I'm here.

If you have too many points, why don't you 'feature' the occasional brilliant story you come across - even better, do it anonymously. Make someone's day and you'll probably make your own day more sunny.

If there's a purchase membership with points system - I'm outta here, been there, done it before. No thanks.

Lis.

well anyhow if I want a membership then I'm going to get it with some hard work I'll have to start typing really fast!