All the questions in ATMB about the proposed direction of the boards (free membership if you don’t mind ads; paid membership for no ads) made me wonder: what kind of wacky stuff could the SDMB charge extra for to make more revenue? Now, of course, there’s the stuff that might really work, like customized titles. But I’m thinking of stuff they’d never in a thousand years really implement, but it’s fun to think about.
For instance:
For an extra 5 bucks, you can insult one Mod of choice and not get reprimanded
For 7.50, you can post for a week in nothing but LOLCatSpeak, and no one can call you on it
For 20 bucks, you can troll freely for a week
50 bucks to register a sock
100 bucks to actively precipitate a war with another MB
You guys take it from here.
Mods, if this is the wrong forum, please move appropriately.
Have an auction system that allows people to bid to change other posters’ names or give them custom titles. So I could, say, bid $5 to change Drain Bead’s name to Drain Gead, and Drain would either have to outbid me or live with the name change.
Edit:
Selling indulgences to forgive past warnings.
I think this idea would be a lot of fun. Too bad TLDR just got banned because I’m sure he would have been the first target and I bet the price would have gone pretty high too.
I was going to suggest selling t-shirts but luckily I decided to check to see if they already did and they do.
Well how about more of a cafepress type of thing with SDMB mouse pads, hats, sweatshirts, dog collars, neck ties, boxers, speedo’s, mittens or better yet SDMB toilet paper. Spaceballs T.P. sold so well TPTB could probably drop the ads altogether. That kind of stuff
For 100 bucks TPTB will go out and find a ______ for any “Ask the _____” thread that can’t be answered by existing members.
For 250 bucks you can sponsor a sheep for Hal Briston
For 500 you can have the worst post you ever made (and all subsequent replies and Pit threads that came from it) completely deleted from the server and archives.
For one mil-lion dollars you can learn the true identity of Cecil Adams and not have to die afterward.
Make the search function pay as you go. $1 will get you one search or you can buy in at the discount rate of unlimited searches for $5 in a 24 hour period.
$10 to get on the secret “good server” for a day.
$100 dollars for getting the highest experts on a given subject to debate extensively on a subject you are interested in for a week. If they don’t participate of even try hard enough, they get banned unless the people in question pay another $200 for a dispensation on their own behalf.
$100 to make a user give out their home address and telephone number. After setting up a meeting by phone or at their house, the person in question will be banned if they are not cordial or don’t present themselves in high charm and fashion at least for a little while. The only way out is a fine of $500 to block the meeting. Especially hot or interesting Dopers can buy a perpetual out of these meetings for $1000.
