Money to Remove Ads

[David]

Do you have this? I know its a feature on IPB forums where you pay a certain amount and so your account becomes ad free. Its a great way to earn revenue, however you have to be a large forum and provide something back to the community. Any thoughts?

 

[el canadiano]

Um, that's more just those remotely-hosted forums. The original IPB 1.3 was ad-free. Forced ads annoy me, which is basically the main reason I host my own forum.

 

[David]

Yes, obviously remotely hosted sites, not the free IPB.

 

[Pixel Pirate]

I only have ads for the guest's...Once you register they go away.

 

[Leo Ghost]

I only have ads for the guest's...Once you register they go away.

I've always quite liked the ideas of communities having a certain obtainable "rank" that allows more features to be accessed, including ad removal among other things. A prime example would be a "elite member" group or the sort, something you become after reaching a certain post limit. That way every user has a fair fighting chance, regardless of having PayPal or money, all one must do is post and contribute to the community.

 

[David]

Precisely. That community I am talking about does this, and other ways are promoting the site (on other developed sites) and writing up tutorials (as its a coding forum) which earns you points. Great win-win situations there.

I only have ads for the guest's...Once you register they go away.

I've always quite liked the ideas of communities having a certain obtainable "rank" that allows more features to be accessed, including ad removal among other things. A prime example would be a "elite member" group or the sort, something you become after reaching a certain post limit. That way every user has a fair fighting chance, regardless of having PayPal or money, all one must do is post and contribute to the community.

 

[Expired Account]

This is a good idea which I would use if I owned a big forum, not really for small forums.

 

[Shiny Star]

This is a good idea which I would use if I owned a big forum, not really for small forums.

Yeah, its kind of a waste of money for small forums.

 

[Ryanplex]

Ya zetaboards has this and when I had a board on there I did actually pay them to remove them for x amount of clicks for everyone but I never actually used it really lol.