supporting payment via crypto would if nothing else provide a reliable backup option when a payment processer isn't available
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I was going to upgrade to gold today, but ran into this issue. From the comments here it seems this has been ongoing for months now. If there is currently no way to buy gold, then the site should be unlocked for regular users until the issue with the payment processor is resolved.
phenius said:
I was going to upgrade to gold today, but ran into this issue. From the comments here it seems this has been ongoing for months now. If there is currently no way to buy gold, then the site should be unlocked for regular users until the issue with the payment processor is resolved.
Great idea! It'll never happen
phenius said:
I was going to upgrade to gold today, but ran into this issue. From the comments here it seems this has been ongoing for months now. If there is currently no way to buy gold, then the site should be unlocked for regular users until the issue with the payment processor is resolved.
So that the people that make throw away accounts to try to damage the site have access to additional tools so they can more easily make their messes? Yeah, no. Not to mention certain content intentionally hidden from regular users for various reasons.
I dunno about unlocking the gold features for everyone while upgrading is unavailable, because that doesn't seem reasonable. But it *would* be nice to stop the "Upgrade your account" banner from reappearing until the option to do so is actually available. Don't bug me to do something I literally can't do, right?
i've been wanting to upgrade to gold for months now, at this point i would be willing to pay through Ko-fi, paypal with e-mail, kikstarter, go fund me, onlyfans, shopify, facebook messenger if that's even still a thing you can do, hell i'd actually download cash app, mail a check, stick a 20$ bill on the ankle of a pigeon, i almost don't care i just really want the upgrade lol
OkHowAbout said:
i've been wanting to upgrade to gold for months now, at this point i would be willing to pay through Ko-fi, paypal with e-mail, kikstarter, go fund me, onlyfans, shopify, facebook messenger if that's even still a thing you can do, hell i'd actually download cash app, mail a check, stick a 20$ bill on the ankle of a pigeon, i almost don't care i just really want the upgrade lol
Somebody's down bad /s
In all seriousness though, I'm in the same boat. I sent a message to support but no word back yet. Let's just remain patient while they figure it out. We'll be able to upgrade eventually.
blindVigil said:
So that the people that make throw away accounts to try to damage the site have access to additional tools so they can more easily make their messes? Yeah, no. Not to mention certain content intentionally hidden from regular users for various reasons.
They may have their reasons to hide certain types of content behind a paywall or trust threshold, but in the meantime there should be some way for regular users incapable of meeting that trust threshold to view those types of content while they have no means of payment processing to meet that paywall. I was already frustrated enough to find out there was a paywall to begin with, before then finding out that even with the money there's still no way for me to upgrade my account so I can view the content I'm looking for.
blindVigil said:
So that the people that make throw away accounts to try to damage the site have access to additional tools so they can more easily make their messes? Yeah, no. Not to mention certain content intentionally hidden from regular users for various reasons.
OK, fair point, but that is something you're going to run into no matter what. There are a lot of jerks out there who just want to ruin other people's fun. There are other ways of protecting against this than placing everything behind a paywall.
I can understand having issues with a payment processor causing a short term disruption in the ability to provide a service, but this has been going on for months. That is not short term. If you are unable to provide a method for users to actually pay what you are asking of them, then yes, you absolutely should unlock the site until you get your business in order. Letting it go on this long is seriously like something out of a comedy skit.
Veradux said:
There is. Become a builder through contributions to the site, such as quality uploads with a low deletion rate, tag gardening, translating, etc.
What did you think I meant by "trust threshold" when I said "there should be some way for regular users incapable of meeting that trust threshold to view those types of content"? Without gold membership as an alternative, having to competitively make thousands of contributions to the site just to be able to view certain types of content is absurd.
blackchameleon100 said:
What did you think I meant by "trust threshold" when I said "there should be some way for regular users incapable of meeting that trust threshold to view those types of content"? Without gold membership as an alternative, having to competitively make thousands of contributions to the site just to be able to view certain types of content is absurd.
It's not anywhere near that difficult to earn Builder status. Even just contributing in the forums is enough, that's how I did it and I wasn't even active for very long. The only thing even competitive is uploading, tag clean-up is a neverending job that would benefit greatly from more hands (who actually read the wikis and pay attention to what they're tagging).
blindVigil said:
It's not anywhere near that difficult to earn Builder status. Even just contributing in the forums is enough, that's how I did it and I wasn't even active for very long. The only thing even competitive is uploading, tag clean-up is a neverending job that would benefit greatly from more hands (who actually read the wikis and pay attention to what they're tagging).
I'm not sure how long ago you were made builder, but every recently promoted builder I've seen has thousands of contributions, as do you with nearly 9k post changes alone. As for tags, they are indeed competitive. and while I've done a couple, the tags I'm able to spot are pretty much done already by the time the posts are uploaded. If I sacrifice everything else and put all my time into this, I could believe maybe it'd take as little as a couple months for me to be promoted, but I don't have that kind of time and honestly doubt it'd take less than a year for me to be able to make enough contributions, especially considering the contributions I personally have the ability to make.
blackchameleon100 said:
I'm not sure how long ago you were made builder, but every recently promoted builder I've seen has thousands of contributions, as do you with nearly 9k post changes alone. As for tags, they are indeed competitive. and while I've done a couple, the tags I'm able to spot are pretty much done already by the time the posts are uploaded. If I sacrifice everything else and put all my time into this, I could believe maybe it'd take as little as a couple months for me to be promoted, but I don't have that kind of time and honestly doubt it'd take less than a year for me to be able to make enough contributions, especially considering the contributions I personally have the ability to make.
I became a Builder on 2020-09-13, you can see this in my User Feedback. Checking my post change history, at that time I had made about 600 edits since first making my account, and had made about 300 forum posts, the very first of which was in January of that year. So, it took me about 9 months from when I began seriously contributing, but it was 9 months of barely doing anything, and my early forum participation really didn't leave the best impressions. It was really just a handful of tag edits and forum comments a day, and suddenly I was Builder. The bulk of my contributions came after. Even now, I just fix a few tags here and there when I feel like it.
Tag clean-up is not competitive at all, because you can probably go to the front page right now and find several overlooked misstags. Pick any tag you like and just skim through it, and you'll find dozens upon dozens of posts that shouldn't be there. Every single tag is a mess, and there aren't enough people to clean it up, and too many people helping the mess grow.