Quote from: UserU on March 02, 2021, 04:22:38 PM

While I somewhat agree that the amount should be reduced, at the same time, there's gonna be a lot of resistance from the seniors here claiming that it's not about gaining the title, but rather preserving the novelty (back then when BTC was somewhat more affordable).

I reckon other memberships might not actually serve any additional purpose for now, since Copper unlocks the ~~Full~~ Member privileges, which are pretty much sufficient for an average member, unless we're talking about no-ads or accessing a premium lounge.

Maybe yes, the novelty means something, but come on half if not most of them are no longer active. Its just beating over a dead horse at this point. Also, the benefits of these memberships could be upgraded to numerous things discussed before. For example:
- Animated signatures.
- Access to new and private chatrooms and/or boards.

Quote from: hilariousetc on March 03, 2021, 12:24:12 PM

Theymos has said he won't lower the price of those ranks and I think they should be left be as they are, however, I've long been a proponent of adding more titles such as Silver and Gold Memberships that come with the benefits of higher ranks like Full and Hero Member etc. There's multiple benefits to having them in my opinion such as curbing account farming and lessening the market for accounts as people would just buy the title rather than risk buying a dodgy account on the black market. Most people probably struggle to get a high amount of merit these days and the number of people signing up to the forum that will achieve a high rank will probably be very low and will usually only happen to exceptional users so I think paying to skip the queue would be useful in these situations. The higher tier one could maybe allow you to charge your name once as I know that's often something people want. There's plenty of other benefits that could be included as well.

I remember you telling in the past you brought it up to theymos in the staff board, any luck yet? And I quite vividly remember discussing the potential benefits that these new ranks could include, that too years ago. Oh well. We can only keep discussing about it.

Quote from: snipie on March 02, 2021, 10:47:28 PM

I don't see the point of being VIP, Donator or Copper member.
The first two status are old, not frequent to see them (only few members are active) and might be abused (no longer remember if they can change names or not).
Copper member is interesting mostly for new members here.
I prefer to see a bunch of profiles/custom names like: miner, trader, hodler... rather than being called donator that I obtained when the forums no longer need donations, and surely not having a mineral membership especially not copper.

At this point I don’t see a reason for purchasing these ranks other than the membership being a novelty.

But a novelty at this cost, is it worth considering that it is almost worthless realistically?