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incka
08-15-2004, 07:21 AM
I know that Chromate, Mike and myself have reached our private message limits at some times, and it is annoying having to delete messages. Either give us more private message space for free or do an option to buy private message space please.

michael_gersitz
08-15-2004, 08:14 AM
I'm at 40/200 so I am good. But I agree with Sean that deleted messages is really annoying, I had to do it at Sitepoint many times.

chrispian
08-15-2004, 09:16 AM
Premium Memberships would be good for this. Quite a few forums are doing this now and it seems to work fairly well. For about $2/mo you get double PM space, Special Badge, and a different color for your username on posts/user lists, larger avatars, sigs, file uploads etc. There are a few other perks depending on the forum, but that's the gist of it. Users get to donate to a forum they enjoy helping it grow while getting a little extra. I'm planning on doing this on a couple of my sites and my users seem to be eager for me to add it.

It wouldn't make you rich, but it would be a fairly steady source of revenue wich would certainly help during the slow times with other programs.

chromate
08-15-2004, 09:51 AM
Speaking of PM limits... Incka, you may now PM me again. I've cleared out some space.

incka
08-15-2004, 01:47 PM
Chrispian's idea is good.

I'll PM you when I can remember what my PM was about.

chromate
08-15-2004, 03:43 PM
Oh, nice to know it was important then ;p

chrispian
08-15-2004, 05:01 PM
Chrispian's idea is good.

I'll PM you when I can remember what my PM was about.

I wish I could take credit for it. While I did have some thoughts along these lines, it didn't gel until I started reading threads over at TAZ (http://www.theadminzone.com) where it seems be a growing practice. I'll write up a review of how it goes with my sites once I impliment it. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks. I'll do an "initital response" and then wait a couple of months to get a better perspective on how viable it is and share both here.

Chris
08-15-2004, 06:25 PM
What do I have the current limit set at?

michael_gersitz
08-15-2004, 08:33 PM
Proboally 50.

Chris, go to Admin Cp > User Groups > User Group Manager > Edit Regular Members > Change current to higher.

Very simple.

Mike
08-16-2004, 12:12 AM
The current limit is 200.

incka
08-16-2004, 01:08 AM
Perhaps do something where people who have posted more than 250 times get extra private message space?

chromate
08-16-2004, 04:00 AM
Personally, I don't really think it's a big deal. 200 is enough, for me at least. You just need to clean out all the old stuff every now and again.

Dan Morgan
08-16-2004, 04:41 AM
Personally, I don't really think it's a big deal. 200 is enough, for me at least. You just need to clean out all the old stuff every now and again.

I agree, you have the option of downloading them in 3 diferent formats aswell.

incka
08-16-2004, 05:15 AM
Which? .txt, .xml & .xls?

Mike
08-16-2004, 06:07 AM
Why don't you look yourself ;)

It's XML, CSV and TEXT.

incka
08-16-2004, 08:02 AM
Me do something for myself - You must be joking ;)