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Quote from: cryptohacker29@ on March 11, 2018, 02:07:56 PM

It means now we can use avatar campaign in the bounty. But what is the requirement of enabling the images in the profile. Newbie can now turn to Junior member in 30 days.

cryptohacker29@, what is the maximum price you would pay for an avatar?

@theymos, thank you for your wisdom in NOT making avatars a standard feature of Copper Membership.

I must severely revise and correct what I said here:

Quote from: nullius on February 27, 2018, 01:16:21 PM

For personal use in an account expected to rank up normally within a few months, as I said in my post:

Quote from: nullius on February 12, 2018, 07:00:53 PM

When I was a Newbie Copper Member, I myself would have paid extra to sport an avatarsay, the equivalent of $10 more.

The business use case could be different. For example, consider a role account which functions as a fully disclosed alt, and mostly just does occasional announcements. Such an account may never reach Full Member statusand it certainly shouldnt play evil games to bump up posts/merit for that purpose! At present, there exists no means at all for such an account to display a simple graphical business logo.

For that use case, I think a fair avatar add-on price would be 50100% of the current price of Copper Membership (thus making the total price 150200% of Coppers current price).

If avatars are in-demand for bounty-chasers, then offering a reasonably inexpensive paid avatar option would likely increase the spam level.

Forget what I said about a $10 avatar for personal use. Well-intended users will understand and appreciate the need to control incentives to spam. For ordinary accounts, people can just rank up. Ill be proud to wear an avatar for the first time, just over 48 hours from now!

New suggestion:

Accounts at Full Member rank or higher should be able to grant an avatar blessing to accounts which they openly disclose as their alts. It would be reasonable to charge a modest, nonrefundable fee for the administrative overhead required to prevent this from being abused by account sellers (and/or people who would simply sell their blessing). An express condition of such a scheme must be that the blessing is only valid as long as the same person controls both accounts.

Example use case (other than mine):

Quote from: BenOnceAgain on February 12, 2018, 08:56:42 PM

Quote from: Hexxcoin on February 06, 2018, 09:01:48 AM

Quote from: sgv on February 02, 2018, 05:41:11 PM

For example,if i post ICO Project in Altcoin Announcements my images will not displayed if i don't pay this little fee?

Almost the same question here. If I buy this status can I start ANN with images?

Yes, I have it on my organization profile. It works well for including images in posts.

Best regards,
Ben

Otherwise, any paid avatar option must be made too expensive for people who are seeking free money. That should be balanced against not making it too expensive for individuals who are trying to bootstrap a small business on a shoestring budget (cough).

I think that at current rates, around 0.01 0.02 BTC would be a reasonable business-class expense (even for small business) while hopefully being cost-prohibitive to a Newbie who just wants to use avatar campaign in the bounty.