Quote from: Ridwan Fauzi on October 06, 2018, 12:01:27 PM

I have a little compused when I found account cooper member,

What is the difference between cooper membership and a regular account?

Is there a privilege when the account has the name cooper member?

I found a lot in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=238.0 accounts that have cooper members always have a lot of participant if they become a bounty manager even though the account is still a newbie, and different when a newbie without cooper member account less desirable by bounty hunters if they become a bounty manager.

Sorry for the stupidity that I have with this question, or alternatively someone can provide a link for me to read about the difference between a copper member account and a regular account.

Only hilariousandco is a Cooper Member. Assuming you mean Copper Member it's just a rank to essentially whitelist yourself and post images straight away, but also comes with a few extra features. You now need one merit to get a signature but you can get one straight away by purchasing the Copper rank and that's what most people will buy it for. Moire details here:

Quote from: theymos on November 10, 2017, 09:23:30 PM

By popular demand, newbies can now pay to have some of their restrictions lifted. If you pay the fee, you become a Copper Member, and you can post images. That's the main point of this: allowing newbies to post images. Additionally (and these might change depending on how things go), Copper Members currently have these bonuses:

- Some of the same permissions as Member-rank members, such as reduced signature styling restrictions. (But none of the PM-related restrictions are currently lifted, such as the style limit or per-hour PM limit.)
- Your "you must wait ____ seconds between ___" counter is reduced by 75%. So if you're naturally of Newbie rank, you only have to wait 360-75% = 90 seconds.

If you paid an "evil IP" registration fee, then whatever you paid (in BTC terms) is subtracted from the upgrade fee. If you paid a registration fee a long time ago, you might even get a free Copper Membership due to the increase in BTC price. Just visit the link at the bottom of this post to check whether you have it already.

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.

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.

You can buy it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote

Quote from: LoyceV on October 06, 2018, 01:14:51 PM

Quote from: hilariousetc on October 06, 2018, 11:16:42 AM

~Copper Membership has now taken on a new meaning/use as it's the only way for someone to get a signature without achieving any merit. Give it time and it'll probably get some stigma associated with it and will be seen as a shitposting rank/title, especially when you start seeing Copper Members with hundreds to thousands of posts and not a single merit received.

That's the same for users without Copper Membership. High Activity and low Merit means low post quality. I'd say that's a good thing to quickly see!

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I'm still for further donator ranks as well like Silver and Gold but they need to be sufficiently expensive to stop people just coughing up $10-20 per account over however many they have.

Even if this were implemented, there would eventually be Gold Members with high Activity and barely any Merit. At least they're easy to spot.

That's a good thing. At least it sets those apart from those that have contributed and actually earned their ranks as opposed to those who have just bought it.