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Originally Posted by Manic
This idea might seem a bit off-the-wall, but it may help in giving a few extra bucks to the site. If MFG has any talented artists, they could do comissions for a small price that wouldn't be paid to them, but go towards helping the site costs. If we got really serious about it, I'm a musician. I could make theme songs or something for people's RPG characters if they were willing to pay a bit more for a full piece of music composed from scratch, specifically for them.
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Maybe this could be generalized. People could offer a particular service through an ad in the new MFG Store, with a percentage of what they earn getting donated to the site, probably with some minimum percentage to keep it fair. A graphics person could do custom sigs for $1 each and donate 50% to MFG, for example.
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Originally Posted by Manic
Here's another idea for gold donators. You remember on the old MFG, how members had those little blue squares under their rank? An option would be being able to customize them by using your own little graphics for it. Here's another idea for customization. I've seen other boards do this, and it looked really neat - being able to skin your own posts. Like, whenever you make a post, the table your post is in could look different from other peoples', such as the background, text color, font, and other things. If you changed your post skin, all of the posts you've made so far would change to the new skin.
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Cool ideas. Both would require development work on either MFG or Invision, but if enough people were willing to sign-up, then sure.
Maybe all future forum improvements should happen that way. Someone says they want a particular feature. The person who would do the work (me in many cases) would set a price. People who want the feature would then pledge to pay a certain amount. When enough pledges come in, the work is done. When complete, the people who pledged to pay do so. Those who pledge and don't pay are banned.
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Originally Posted by Manic
Here's another one. Make one small banner ad appear on the top of every page on the forum; something reasonably small, like 500x75 or something. This would show up for everybody, including gold members - however, the ads wouldn't be from unrelated businesses and shit we're not interested in. The ads would ONLY be made by members of MFG, and added to the roster to display at random.
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MFG has always accepted advertising from individuals. I wrote a custom ad server that easily supports that kind of thing. I haven't made a big deal about it on the site because I didn't think there would be any interest from members and because it's not particularly cheap -- but sure, if people are interested, it's definitely an option. It could be either in a special location as you suggested, or it could be mixed in with the regular ads. All sorts of targeting options are also available -- by country, browser type, etc.