A User would Pay To post a topic.

[Magle]

TheMusicMan, if you do get this coded (and it turns out to be a well-featured and non-buggy hack), sign me up for one copy, please - I'd pay up to 15$ for such a mod

I imagine it could have the following basic features:

The main feature would of course be the ability to set up a selceted forum so that users have to pay to start a new thread. This should be group based so that admins and mods (or other selected groups) could be exempt from paying.

An additional feature could be the option of users having to pay to reply to their own posts and/or threads (bumping the thread). That could be set at a lower price than starting a new thread.

You could of course turn off the ability to reply to your own thread or posts, but it would be nice to have it on sometimes. However, if people didn't have to pay for replying to themselfs, they could just pay for one thread and them bump it indefinately or until stopped by a mod/admin.

Finally it would be nice if the hack was mainly product/plugin based if possible.

What do you think?

[Bleys]

I don't see any problem in selling software you pay to have made... why would anyone expect you to give away for free what you paid to have made? That's just silly.

I'd pay $15 (that would be getting off cheap) for this mod.

Even better, a mod that had a "credits" type system so that users could buy credits and then spend them to post in different forums (that way you could have multiple classifieds-type sections, some costing more than others--i.e., listing big ticket items might cost more than smaller ones--and not have to lock people into specific forums).

[joeychgo]

I believe Noppid is working on this hack for someone already. You might want to contact him here: Noppid

[himerus]

Has anyone started working on this for sure?

I'm a php coder, www.himerus.com, and have tons of vb exp...

I posted earlier, needing something like this for a site I was working on, but haven't had time to develop it yet... or really even layout a functionality structure on how it would all be put together....

I'm ready to tackle it for personal reasons, and once finished, I would probably imagine releasing both a free (LITE) version, and a paid version that had tons more features for advanced and large forums...

I am also working currently on a vbulletin hacks site, and vbulletin content generation, etc.

I need this feature on several boards I have built, and that I have managed/helped upgrade....

But without reading through the entire post again yet, I'd be interested in starting it this weekend if things turned out right....

I'm experienced enough to compile a vB extension similar to vbadvanced, or the geek products with respects to code functionality, and ease of setup/use....

it will definitely be a fair project to get completed, and bug free, but I'm looking for some unique hacks to expand the new site on, and again my own purposes make this a must have as well....

I will read back through this, but would like some direct feedback in 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. etc... form stating features/options that are CRITICAL, WANTED, or OPTIONAL...

I'd be happy to take any suggestions from the community before firming up my ideas on getting started...

[Bleys]

Originally Posted by Bleys

Even better, a mod that had a "credits" type system

I just realized I forgot to mention another reason why a "credits" system would be even better: you could charge lower amounts.

With PayPal/merchant account fees it's not feasible to charge, say, $1 per thread. But with a credits system you could sell them in lots of 5 or 10, for example. (I.e., $5 = 5 credits, and 1 thread = 1 credit... so $5 = 5 threads).

[b34ch3r]

Originally Posted by Bleys

I just realized I forgot to mention another reason why a "credits" system would be even better: you could charge lower amounts.

With PayPal/merchant account fees it's not feasible to charge, say, $1 per thread. But with a credits system you could sell them in lots of 5 or 10, for example. (I.e., $5 = 5 credits, and 1 thread = 1 credit... so $5 = 5 threads).

Nice idea. It would also mean that the end user would most likely buy more credits than they actually needed for one forum listing

[3z3k3l]

Well any word on dev? How did that coder work out mastersite? I don't see any feedback for him? I guess you guys are still working on it?

[b34ch3r]

I've PM'ed the guy who said he was doing it, because if he isn't going to do it I would see that something like this is developed

[Bleys]

b34ch3r from SitePoint, right?

Anyway, yeah, I'd really like for something like this to be developed, and would definitely be willing to pay for the end result. (Provided it, you know, worked properly ).

[b34ch3r]

Who is this "b34ch3r" you speak of?

Yup (so I guess you have seen the little ad then?)

I'm still waiting for a message back from himerus - I want to get moving on something like this as there's obviosuly the demand.