How long will this forum last

I don't know about only allowing paying members to post...
But..

I think trade advertisers paying something would be an interesting avenue to explore... and could potentially be very lucrative for the trade seller.

We will see how this goes, I'll get a CMS running for the main site, I'm usre Walt wouldn't mind his designs being added.. along with others.

The model that I based this on is www.seatcupra.net a far far busier forum, on there the forum is sponsered by trade sellers, each one gets a banner ad and a forum to sell stuff... seams to work very well, the better each seller is at helping forum memebers the more business they get.. which is as it should be.Edited by: Adambomb

Seems Adam you have lost your way already, from a free speakerplan site to one were you are now wanting to turn it into a commercial site and create a business from it.

Sounds like the site will become just one big selling ground with everyone pushing products services and yourself making money from it.

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I'm not aiming to make any money from it... if it can support itself as an independent forum thats great.

Even if it did turn into a business at-least it would be independent, commerce would be allowed and PMs would not be read.

Who are you exactly... old SP username?

it would be naive to think that without some way of getting money into the site it would be able to sustain itself for very long if their is a possibility of making separate threads/ selling pages for anyone with stuff to sell in enough quantity for them to get some benefit of paying i don't see why we shouldn't in encourage that it seems like a viable way forward.

I think a trade section would be a useful addition. I would keep trade posts away from the rest of the forum, so if you don't want to see them, don't go in the trade section.

this forum should last ages.... its run by honest good hearted fun loving peeps, not dodgey londoners you can never contact and who dont give a crap

arrow wrote: Seems Adam you have lost your way already, from a free</font> speakerplan site to one were you are now wanting to turn it into a commercial site and create a business from it.

free doesn't necessarily refer to money, like a lot of free parties you pays your fiver to be free of what is imposed elsewhere.

ginger_biscuit69 wrote: this forum should last ages.... its run by honest good hearted fun loving peeps, not dodgey londoners you can never contact and who dont give a crap

dodgy londoners? wher?

arrow, any comment on why Brinkster isn't a good host?

Adam---I should rise above all the negative points pushed very prominently by some one that we know nothing about--Or do we??
Maybe it would be a good idea to open a PAP section where allfriends and business contacts of PAP could go and talk negative things amongst themselves and when bored with that could always read each others PMs which would be even more boring and when they got fed up with that we could always supply them with a littlte Tony Rossell dolly and a big box of pins to keep them occupied---now that would be a good excuse forthem not answering the phone