Avatar for another membership?

[BlackBoss_]

With Copper membership, Newbies can now pay a small fee to enable images

It is useful but can admins create another membership, that allows buyers to wear avatars?

Avatar is a part of a company brand-kit so if a company has a representative here, I think they have demand to buy Avatar membership to wear it. They don't need to be Full members to wear it. They probably don't need to be able to wear signature for Full member rank.

Only avatar is good to represent a company brand. They have bitcoins so why they are not allowed to use their bitcoins ?

I am aware that for most people the benefits of this membership are pretty lame. This membership is only intended to fill a specific niche; if you don't need it, don't buy it. It is not intended to be the lower-cost Donator/VIP alternative which I've talked about before as a possibility.

There is a smaller niche to buy avatar.

freebitco.in PR. 1120 activity, can not wear an avatar.
tower.bet. 532 activity
futuur. 202 activity.
BK8.Official. 149 activity.
windice. 365 activity.
absolutely-positioned. 173 activity.
BC.GAME. 212 activity.

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[PX-Z]

This might not benefit me at all same with the copper membership, but for those who want to pay just to get such feature. And especially to a company who wants to promote its business here, yeah, why not? It will give the forum another source of income in someway, even though its not that huge fund. Right @theymos?

Maybe we can call it bronze membership, lol. Since it's bronze after copper age.

I wrote the system so that I can easily add additional paid memberships in the future, but I might not ever do so. Not sure.

Maybe this is the time, just don't be after the "but".

[BlackBoss_]

And especially to a company who wants to promote its business here, yeah, why not? It will give the forum another source of income in someway, even though its not that huge fund. Right @theymos?

You got me.

Maybe we can call it bronze membership, lol. Since its bronze after copper age.

Silver membership.

[shahzadafzal]

Later add paying $8/month to get a blue tick also.

[BlackBoss_]

Later add paying $8/month to get a blue tick also.

It's not Twitter.

Avatar is forever, not monthly and company avatars are unique.

[Maus0728]

Avatars could be worn by "Newbie" accounts back then, but they were disabled for security reasons in 2013^[1]. Following that, it was re-enabled in 2015, with "Full Members" as a pre-requisite^[2]. And I'm guessing there won't be any additional membership fees to wear an avatar because that's why the forum was hacked in the first place.

[1] Forum avatar?
[2] Avatars re-enabled

[PX-Z]

And I'm guessing there won't be any additional membership fees to wear an avatar because that's why the forum was hacked in the first place.

This bug was solve already that's why we can still use or upload avatars because if not, there's no reason to bring it back if hackers can still use this a loophole to hack the website again.

Also this was mentioned by theymos when creating the copper membership, which i quoted above too.

I wrote the system so that I can easily add additional paid memberships in the future, but I might not ever do so. Not sure.

So there's a chance...

[BlackBoss_]

Avatars could be worn by "Newbie" accounts back then, but they were disabled for security reasons in 2013^[1].

Newbies are a lot but limited members will buy the Avatar membership.

Following that, it was re-enabled in 2015, with "Full Members" as a pre-requisite^[2]. And I'm guessing there won't be any additional membership fees to wear an avatar because that's why the forum was hacked in the first place.

When it was re-enabled, security problems were fixed. Admin did not re-enable it if problems were not fixed.

[crwth]

It will be helpful for people who are trying to build a business here or introduce something with what they are trying to offer. If they are interested in advertising here, the best approach is to have a signature campaign and let the members here advertise for them. I think it can be done, but if you are just interested in presenting yourself, try and approach the forum productively and earn merits, then level up.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Maybe we can call it bronze membership, lol. Since it's bronze after copper age.

Call me an oddball, but I'd name it "Pewter Membership".  Somehow it seems fitting if implemented after all this time.

Avatar is forever, not monthly and company avatars are unique.

I don't know, man.  Pretty much everything in tech is moving toward a subscription model to keep you paying and paying and never really owning anything outright.  Hopefully Theymos is above all that nonsense, and I suspect he is.

[BlackBoss_]

I don't know, man.  Pretty much everything in tech is moving toward a subscription model to keep you paying and paying and never really owning anything outright.  Hopefully Theymos is above all that nonsense, and I suspect he is.

No, I don't propose it to get income for forum.

I collected some representatives of casinos. They have been here long enough and bring traffics, jobs for members but they did not have chance to wear an avatar. Spending a few bucks to buy Avatar membership is not big deal with them.

This membership is for very small niche, smaller than for Copper membership niche.

[Helena Yu]

Only avatar is good to represent a company brand. They have bitcoins so why they are not allowed to use their bitcoins ?

Nah, the downside there's will be a spammer will spamming in order to give their brands visibility in this forum. Copper membership signature isn't eye catching and it will not attract users to click their signatures, but in avatar there's no restrictions and they will create an eye catching avatar.

I don't think it's needed, if they're serious and not a scammer, those project representative accounts will earn 100 merit sooner or later like Bestchange.

Also there's a signature campaign that you can join by avatar space, this would increase spammer to join a campaign.

[BlackBoss_]

Nah, the downside there's will be a spammer will spamming in order to give their brands visibility in this forum. Copper membership signature isn't eye catching and it will not attract users to click their signatures, but in avatar there's no restrictions and they will create an eye catching avatar.

Scammers won't spend it. If they don't buy Copper membership, they won't buy Avatar membership.

I don't think it's needed, if they're serious and not a scammer, those project representative accounts will earn 100 merit sooner or later like Bestchange.

Do you mean representatives of Freebitco.in, BK8 are not deserved to wear an avatar?

[hugeblack]

When "Copper membership"^[1] was established, the purpose of its creation was not to increase revenues for the forum, but rather to provide an opportunity for beginners to post pictures without waiting, in addition to the ability to send messages and others. These features you can get for free if a member adds you to the whitelist of some members^[2], and therefore the purpose of the rank Profit is not as much as paying to bypass spam restrictions.

So far, the forum does not suffer from a financial problem, but if they want to, they can easily add the avatar feature for payment, but it will increase spam in general.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2385104.msg24371150#msg24371150
[2]

[NeuroticFish]

Later add paying $8/month to get a blue tick also.

Thanks for this, I needed a good laugh!

This membership is for very small niche, smaller than for Copper membership niche.

I agree it can be useful, and it's not such a bad idea - I've seen worse and still discussed - but at the end it's up to theymos to decide.
The casino/businesses owners/representatives can (and do) pay for avatars/advertisement already, it could make sense they also display that too for a price or whatever, since getting 100 merit may not be an easy job for a newcomer.

I think it's good you've bring this up.

[LoyceV]

Only avatar is good to represent a company brand.

I don't think this should be a priority to Bitcointalk. Users have the freedom to do almost anything, but if they can't earn 100 Merits in hundreds of posts, they don't deserve an avatar.

[Little Mouse]

The speciality of full member is to be able to wear an avatar. If that's what can be achieved with money, I can't imagine where this place will be after few years. Maybe at that time, a demand will arise, Legendary rank with BTC 
I don't think this is necessary. If this was necessary to the people you mentioned, they would surely achieve the privilege.

[aysg76]

As you see this feature was disabled in past by @theymos for the security reasons and I don't think so he will be planning to add it because you see there are lot more important features pending to be implemented on forum and he has to take care of it.

Although it could benefit the business as it shows the brand in more representative way if you are buying copper membership but you see there are many businesses doing promotion on the forum in similar way and it's going fine for them as whole thing depends on your business model and marketing to the people.They have campaign on forum and there Avatar are visible to all through this way but I know what exactly you wish to have with this another feature requests.

There are certain things which needs to be maintained in same way and we can't monetize everything as we also need to take care of scams to some extent so you can request it but don't think so it will be added and you can find lot more ways to promote business with good and appealing ANN thread on forum.

[BlackBoss_]

Calm down please.

Having avatar for a company by signature campaign participants is different than having it for a company account.

Like when you have a company, a casino and create a service topic, it is beautiful to wear your brand avatar. Representative accounts of Roobet, Rollbit can not wear avatar.

They run long campaigns and paid a lot. Why BestChange can wear avatar but Roobet, Rollbit can not? Are they worse or have less contribution than BestChange to forum members?

My proposal is not to credit avatar for them free, but with a paid membership if they want.

Or they have to wait for generosity and kindness from their employees to award merit and wear avatar.

My idea is not to increase scam or spam but for benefit of companies that have contribution for forum, community and they even bring jobs to forum members.

Signature campaign: 2013 -2022

If no security concern, why not?

[Myleschetty]

Later add paying $8/month to get a blue tick also.

It's not Twitter.

Avatar is forever, not monthly and company avatars are unique.

Yes, I think what he's trying to say is that for every good deed there's always a price to pay.