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To: SI Bob who wrote (22113)	2/3/2005 3:34:36 PM
From: Henry J Costanzo	Respond to of 32932

Aren't you going to factor age and life expectancy of the subscriber into the price of lifetime subscriptions ?? Wouldn't exactly be fair to charge me the same as a 30-year old whippersnapper, would it ?? (No reply necessary....LOL)

To: SI Bob who wrote (22113)	2/3/2005 4:01:56 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32932

Another thing I plan to implement this month once I've worked out the details is incentivizing free members by giving prolific stock-only posting ones a very small subset of Premium features ("Premium-Lite?") once they've reached different posting milestones. What about prolific posters who post on stock threads but not just on stock threads, or even non-stock thread posters who contribute a lot. I know I paid my Premium Plus subscription mostly for the non-stock conversation and I've recognized other aliases in the "Thank You New Subscribers!" box on the home page who probably did the same. Tim

To: SI Bob who wrote (22113)	2/3/2005 6:05:13 PM
From: Teddy	Respond to of 32932

Bob, I would extend my P+ for multiple years, if it would include ALL new features introduced in those years. On the table as a possibility is letting existing Premium-Plus subscribers extend their P+ level for another 4 years at a discount.... We will also be raising the price of Premium-Plus in March. Details later....All of the above looks confusing as-is. Will post it more clearly as a table later. One thing you also may want to consider is setting up "Survey form" to capture feedback on this proposal. It could be reused in the future for setting priorities of new features and evaluating the worth existing ones that require maintenance or fees to third parties (quotes and news feeds?).

To: SI Bob who wrote (22113)	2/3/2005 10:12:18 PM
From: Biomaven	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32932

>If a free member is posting an average of 5 times a day and their posts are valuable contributions to the community, I'd like to reward them with increased posting limits and increased feature availability as they hit various milestones.< I really like the idea of a regular (say monthly) competition whereby free users compete to be awarded regular 1-year memberships. Wouldn't need any programming - regular users would just vote (via PM say) for the free user they thought most deserved regular membership. Top ten (or whatever) votegetters win regular memberships. More concretely, there are some valuable biotech posters on Yahoo (yes, really!) who would make a good contribution to SI. Everyone would benefit if they became regular members. If we had this competition I could just suggest to them that they make some good posts on SI and they could get voted in as regular members. Because they are "leaders" on their Yahoo board, they would probably bring a bunch of paying folks with them. So everyone would benefit. Peter

To: SI Bob who wrote (22113)	2/15/2005 10:41:40 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32932

You know, I wouldn't mind 'google' text type ads on the side of non- stock threads. I find I visit one or two occasionally when they do appear and if its something specific-- like computer virus info at a computer software site. Might want to put it out as a means to save SI's core threads yet produce some revenue. If anything it might rehash previous arguments but if its text and quick and somewhat toward the thread (like cooking or recipe could have that flavour, auto's the same) not only would it generate rev's(maybe-- that's your end-I know nothing) but stimulate traffic yet keep stock threads clean and clear. One would have to make the definition of a stock thread as oppose to a general one. What would the downside of that suggestion? To hard to program something like that- page to page or not cost effective or you made a promise and wont compromise it. Just being helpful for a change.