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ThePhatBishounen
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Hmmm, that's like, $1.25 a month?
Yeah, that's totally do-able. I don't know if I would. But I think the price is right. |
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space clam
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Along the lines of special benefits, maybe something like a special background only available to paying members, or some unique .gifs or Emoticons which can be only used by members. Perhaps minor little things like that along those lines in the way of benefits...
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Zeiram
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Well we need something that won't egg on 'elitism' so emoticons etc would be out. I still like my newsletter idea. Hmm new backgrounds etc? Eh I dunno.
Let's see, chat room, bigger contests, t shirts, hats. Maybe if we combine this with members becoming minor staffers for updating the smaller sections more readily than how we have it now or something, we could see the site like eh pay us for our small changes and the site will get a heck lot better or something. Put the money to a good use maybes. Well if this isn't a viable idea, maybe it'll inspire something. I say look over these ideas, I'm sure something can be figured out by now. |
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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You can always add nifty features to the forums for paid members only like:
Thread Subsciption Forum Buddy List More detailed Profile A Signature Oh, and maybe add a sort of... grading scale members can use on other members. Like... if a member posts something very informative or usefull, they get a point, and if a person posts a... trolly post, or major spam, they get a point taken away. Once a person gets to something like negative 20 or something, they're banned. When people get a certain amount of point or something, you can add a neat little title under their name, or... give them special privlages... or something. A good example of the stuff I'm talking about is this forum: http://www.evboard.com/ As to other stuff you can add... I dunno. Nifty, members only downloads? Like... skins or wallpapers... meh. |
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Samurai CDZ
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Too bad you have to be a member to see it. 
You could take away the ability to make custom lists in the MyAnime section. I don't know how many people use it but I have like 9 or so. I know it's not much but it does take space to let people do it. Of course, leaving the default (Seen some, Seen All, etc.) lists available to all users. And title's for paying members would be cool. |
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littlegreenwolf
Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Opps, forgot about that. 
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cookie
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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Taking AWAY content that once was free is what IGN and such do. I don't want to see ANN do that. Some of the additions we can offer are: Additional encyclopedia features (more advanced searches/comparisons, soundtrack database, episode synopses) Expanded news coverage (more regular Japanese news translation, rather than the once-in-a-while translations we do, or additional UK/AU news; this, naturally, would be a benefit for everyone, rather than a benefit ONLY for the paying members..) Conventions (Private parties, maybe?) Additional contests More versitile newsfeeds (a newsfeed that includes links to the latest columns and reviews? a newsfeed that includes full-text?) Additional forum things (unique titles, larger avatars, special rank insignia, private forums, chatroom) In-depth title coverage [Anyone recall the RBHS stuff we did?] Faster server (Ad-free, etc) Blogging (Okay, okay, I'm just tossing out ideas. :p) We might also be able to do things like special chats w/ VA's/industry folks, image galleries, special discounts, trailers/video clips, etc.. but we'd have to work those things out with the individuals/companies. I'm going to imagine that we do structured payments like we do for ads -- short-term purchases would be more expensive than long-term purchases. Actually, I like the idea of "private parties at conventions".. hmm. |
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Samurai CDZ
Posts: 776 Location: Manhattan, KS |
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Yeah, I caught that a little while after I posted. Forget I said it. |
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str24
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If you could work something out with rightstuf and animenation or whoever where if you subscribe to ANN you get a print catalog from those companies, that might be cool.
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DeSpawn
Posts: 82 Location: Boston, MA |
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Well its an interesting idea to make up a pay service / ad-free server. But would I really be willing to pay the anual fee of around $20.00 just to help support my favorite anime news website...
Though Choice. Your advertisements you currenelty have now never bothered me, perhaps had you made them larger or more frequent then perhaps I'd think about...possibly paying for...one in a million chance .
But still, maybe I should just click your banner ads more often then. If it wouldn't cost you guys anything (besides the initial cost that you would make from users who pay, then by all means give it a shot) 
Just don't increase the ads you have on your normal server thingy...or I will throw a pie at you. 
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Silvercat
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And maybe a Pin! I would pay money to help the site, even if all I got was a small pin that said AnimeNewsNetwork.com on it. *Is a little obsessed with anime pins* I've contribute information to the Encyclopedia, so I think letting paid members help update sections could be a good idea. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
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My take on this ad-free service is that it's more like a donation where you receive a little thank-you gift in return. Maybe we *should* open a donation box, with a minimum donation of 10$, and say "as a thank you for this donation, you will be able to turn off banners during one year". It would be nice to find a few more things to put in the thank-you gift.
For example we could display better images; right now we limit the jpeg quality of thumbnails in order to keep bandwidth costs down, but that limit could be waived for donators. But like Tempest, I am against providing privileged access to certain content. ANN has always been about providing information and if we start limiting access to information then we kill ourselves. That means no special articles or forum or chat room as far as I'm concerned. As for contests... paying to have access to a contest is in the domain of lotteries I believe, and that is a whole different ballgame (heavily legislated). |
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AnimeHeretic
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[quote="TempestI'm looking into methods to automatically block the site to people that don't download the ads.
-t[/quote] So those of us who try to protect ourselves from Spam and runaway ads will effectively be barred from the site? I run my security to the max because of too much spyware getting through in the past-- even had to do a clean install. If I have to turn it off to view the site, then we part ways. |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
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I only have two words to say. Adaware. Spybot. If you're getting enough spyware to have to reinstall your OS, you're not taking care of your computer properly. I have a pop-up blocker purely for annoyance reasons, but there's no bloody way ads (pop-up and embedded ones) can put that much spyware on your computer unless you're clicking all of them, installing the things they tell you to, running assloads of P2P, and then not using one (or both) of the above programs. |
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Van_Gogh
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Unlike other websites, I actually click on the ads once in a while since most of the time they relate to anime and manga and are of interest to me.
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