A User would Pay To post a topic.
 

Hi,

I think a great addition to VB would be for a user to have to pay to post a topic/thread - within a forum call "Classifieds" or similar...

Please see my post on vbulletin.com for further information.

What do you think?

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=174392

Features of this could be the following:
User & Admin Gets an email receipt/confirmation
Admin Can set how long a post should last for
Admin Can give give usergroups the ability to post without charge in forum.
Also perhaps - Admin can allow certain members to post for free.
Users can buy a bundle of posts i.e say 5, 10, 20 posts

Webs007

Thats what the paid subscriptions is for

Your totally wrong,

The user would pay to post 1 thread! - so it acts like a classifieds forum.

The administartor could set how much to charge and how long the thread to run for.

It is basically a classifieds section (pay per post). So you pay a one off fee - for a one off post - and if you want extra posts - you have to pay again etc etc.

For a certain forum only - a user clicks new thread - they are then taken to a page - with details on how much they will be charged etc - they click accept - they would be then taken to the paypal site - once paid - they would be returned to the forum and into the create post section where they can input what they wanted to sell. It would work really well.

For myself and others - this could work well - and provide a really nice way to sell classified adertising on your vbulletin forum. This definately has potential.

Think of all the community forums run off the back of websites such as cars, crafts..anything - who have always wanted classifieds but didn't want the hassle of scripts etc - Having this implemented will give them the ability to do this with ease with no extra coding required, Also - I think highlighting this as a key feature would draw more people to purchase VBulletin as this option is highly desirable to webmasters looking for extra revenue and want to look beyond PPC schemes such as Adsense etc.

I'm sure the VB team could easily do it - it's just taking the subscriptions element and tweaking it to give a pay-per-post option.

Webs007

They run that at Sitepoint. You have to pay $9.99 to create a contest in the Martketing forums

I just checked it out - so they do - must be a custom hack they made.

Any chance someone could make a plugin that does the same?

Webs007

I second this, needs to be done somehow. Thanks webs for posting this.

I remember seeing a hack where you users can pay to make there thread a sticky.

You could try that out.
Use the searc function :)

iff you were gonna do something like this.. i would also add the ability to charge for banners or buttons. and it should be a main area of the forum.. like forumhome.. a little sub table that shows the banners or the latest classifieds or whatever you choose to use this for.. because if your gonna charge for somethng the user who is paying deserves somethinhg of worth. Who would wqant to pay for a post ? when you could easily just add what your trying to sell in your signature. and then blam get the sales by pm or at your ebay site your linking to in your signature...

so ya got to make it of interest. and a forum home block that would show the top 5 to ten classifieds or a random classified/banner.
so then everyone on the site will see there item instead of it being in a classified forum and getting maybe 5% of the forum views

I have searched the forums - but there is only the ability to make a sticky (without paying) - people have asked for the payment function so a user would have to pay to make it sticky - but no one i'm sure has made it- if you could show me where you found this - I think it would be very beneficial.

Webs

I will 3rd the motion for this hack. I actually need this badly for my forum!

any takers?

matt