Monetizing forum moderation: let users pay for banning othersng -

[buffaloWildWings]

This is an idea to make the moderators' work easier and bring money to the table.

It's very simple:
if any other user wants to ban another user, you pay $12 for removing ratings or editing, $24 for a one week ban. $100 for permaban, etc.

For verified lolcows, the price goes up or they are sacred and cannot be banned by the free market.
Moderators have less work to do and cash flows like the spice on Arrakis.

I know that I'll be the first one to get banned, but such is life.

 

[Joan Nyan]

Can you also pay to unban someone? I'd pay to get @autisticdragonkin back.

 

[AnOminous]

Isn't this kind of stuff how SA started the long slow slide into being a bunch of unfunny speds?

 

[ICametoLurk]

Can you also pay to unban someone? I'd pay to get @autisticdragonkin back.

And @Wildchild

 

[DuskEngine]

Isn't this kind of stuff how SA started the long slow slide into being a bunch of unfunny speds?

And so too must we.

 

[buffaloWildWings]

Isn't this kind of stuff how SA started the long slow slide into being a bunch of unfunny speds?

Goontopia's model is based on paying for access.
This model will not hinder anyone from using the site.
Everything will work as before without any payment required.

It's just that instead of whining to the mods, the user can put their money where their mouth is and pay up.
Less work for mods, more money for @Null
Also, if the ban becomes abused, just charge more for banning people.
Free market, y'all!

Can you also pay to unban someone? I'd pay to get @autisticdragonkin back.

That's a great idea and could also work as a counter-balance to @AnOminous' concerns about too many bans turning this place into Goonieville 2.0

 

[Male Idiot]

I can totally see all the lolcows with more money than common sense not abusing this to turn this into an empty forum! No siree! Greta's 'donation's would at least go someplace else than his fat ass.

 

[Jaimas]

This is an idea to make the moderators' work easier and bring money to the table.

It's very simple:
if any other user wants to ban another user, you pay $12 for removing ratings or editing, $24 for a one week ban. $100 for permaban, etc.

For verified lolcows, the price goes up or they are sacred and cannot be banned by the free market.
Moderators have less work to do and cash flows like the spice on Arrakis.

I know that I'll be the first one to get banned, but such is life.

Comes across to me as a terrible idea. Not only will we have people constantly using this against people who piss them off, but further incentivizes clique-building and similar forum infighting degeneracy. That would create even more fucking work for us, and honestly feels like it goes against the spirit of the Farms.

 

[meatslab]

Vordrak would come in and spend thousands of dollars to permaban everyone including Null.

 

[AnOminous]

Comes across to me as a terrible idea. Not only will we have people constantly using this against people who piss them off, but further incentivizes clique-building and similar forum infighting degeneracy. That would create even more fucking work for us, and honestly feels like it goes against the spirit of the Farms.

Also only utter pussies would put up with that kind of abuse so we'd basically be left with nobody but utter pussies. Cf. Something Awful.

 

[Super Collie]

Let me pay $5 to change other people's avatars to pictures of goatse with giant red text under it that says "DYNASTIA WAS HERE", and $9.11 so I can change my reg date to September 11th. Mangosteen.

 

[buffaloWildWings]

Also only utter pussies would put up with that kind of abuse so we'd basically be left with nobody but utter pussies. Cf. Something Awful.

Then you just signup again and create a new "AnOminous 2.0" account.

Also, if there's too much abuse, you increase the price of banning someone.
If $12 is too cheap, increase it to $120.

 

[DrainRedRain]

Eh, I think that this idea would only encourage infighthing and a general "high school drama" aura for the Farms.
But I must admit it would be kind of funny if we saw cows begging money on their Patreon to permaban Null and everyone else...

 

[Male Idiot]

It would be fun if this was set up as a fraud to milk cows of money so that they pay and we just change user names, but I think that would be kind of illegal.

 

[AnOminous]

Then you just signup again and create a new "AnOminous 2.0" account.

Also, if there's too much abuse, you increase the price of banning someone.
If $12 is too cheap, increase it to $120.

Are you fucking suggesting I'd pay money to sign up again after that? Fuck that bullshit.

The first time this happened to me, I'd be gone.

However, I'd pay to find out who did it to me, and then I'd dox their mom.

 

[buffaloWildWings]

Are you fucking suggesting I'd pay money to sign up again after that? Fuck that bullshit.

The first time this happened to me, I'd be gone.

However, I'd pay to find out who did it to me, and then I'd dox their mom.

No, you would be able to create as many accounts for free as your heart desires.
Just like today.

On a separate note:
if it turns out that banning is too prevalent and it's hurting morale or whatever, then the cost of banning someone will go up.

 

[DrainRedRain]

I'm legit curious: what would be a reasonable cause to ban someone? "I just don't like that user/That user's opinions are shit/That user's avatar is autistic/That user triggered me" probably will be used a lot.

 

[buffaloWildWings]

I'm legit curious: what would be a reasonable cause to ban someone? "I just don't like that user/That user's opinions are shit/That user's avatar is autistic/That user triggered me" probably will be used a lot.

No reason needed, just money.
People will pay to moderate the forums.

Also, I'm not here to judge anyone, I just want them to pay @Null, so I can keep laughing at the tards.

 

[DrainRedRain]

No reason needed, just money.

Welp I think I'll be one of the first ones to go banned

 

[Michel]

Just add item drops like a phone game. I've seen people pay $400 in one go on those things.