Why not have a "Registered User Only" challenge??

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

06/05/2007 12:21:35 AM · #8

that would be sweet
i mean, if you run the same one for member and non-members
then they really would not be missing out

awpollard

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

06/05/2007 01:08:00 AM · #9

I wonder whom would suffer when it came to votes and comments?

Elvis_L

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S

06/05/2007 01:29:17 AM · #10

Originally posted by awpollard:

I wonder whom would suffer when it came to votes and comments?

would be curious to see that.

ericwoo

Nikon Z7II

06/05/2007 02:58:05 AM · #11

Originally posted by Elmakias:

that would be sweet
i mean, if you run the same one for member and non-members
then they really would not be missing out

It would be even sweeter if you just coughed up the $25 and become a member. After all, you users are enjoying the site, right? I think that we have grown enough that the challenges are becoming almost unmanageable from a voting standpoint. Perhaps its time for registered users to be given a 90 day period to 'try out' the site. After that 90 days, either foot the $25 or you no longer get to enter. Non-paying members add cost to the site, thus upgrades are slower to come to us paying members. Maybe if we go this route, we could FINALLY get the allowed resolution changed to 720 px. It would sure free up a lot of server space.

There, that's what I think.

Simms

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

06/05/2007 04:25:29 AM · #12

Originally posted by Elvis_L:

Originally posted by awpollard:
I wonder whom would suffer when it came to votes and comments?

would be curious to see that.

How about, registered users only challenge, but only paid members allowed to vote... would be VERY interesting.

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

06/05/2007 05:01:00 AM · #13

Originally posted by ericwoo:

Originally posted by Elmakias:
that would be sweet
i mean, if you run the same one for member and non-members
then they really would not be missing out

It would be even sweeter if you just coughed up the $25 and become a member. After all, you users are enjoying the site, right? I think that we have grown enough that the challenges are becoming almost unmanageable from a voting standpoint. Perhaps its time for registered users to be given a 90 day period to 'try out' the site. After that 90 days, either foot the $25 or you no longer get to enter. Non-paying members add cost to the site, thus upgrades are slower to come to us paying members. Maybe if we go this route, we could FINALLY get the allowed resolution changed to 720 px. It would sure free up a lot of server space.

There, that's what I think.

Or non paying members are allowed to enter two Open Challenges every four weeks. That way the numbers are reduced and people are encouraged to join as a full member!

06/05/2007 05:17:36 AM · #14

Originally posted by Judi:

Originally posted by ericwoo:

Originally posted by Elmakias:
that would be sweet
i mean, if you run the same one for member and non-members
then they really would not be missing out

It would be even sweeter if you just coughed up the $25 and become a member. After all, you users are enjoying the site, right? I think that we have grown enough that the challenges are becoming almost unmanageable from a voting standpoint. Perhaps its time for registered users to be given a 90 day period to 'try out' the site. After that 90 days, either foot the $25 or you no longer get to enter. Non-paying members add cost to the site, thus upgrades are slower to come to us paying members. Maybe if we go this route, we could FINALLY get the allowed resolution changed to 720 px. It would sure free up a lot of server space.

There, that's what I think.

Or non paying members are allowed to enter two Open Challenges every four weeks. That way the numbers are reduced and people are encouraged to join as a full member!

I am not agree, everyone before become member is only user. If you reduce the possibility of participate the peoples could be encouraged to go out of DPC.

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

06/05/2007 05:32:14 AM · #15

Originally posted by Rino63:

Originally posted by Judi:

Or non paying members are allowed to enter two Open Challenges every four weeks. That way the numbers are reduced and people are encouraged to join as a full member!

I am not agree, everyone before become member is only user. If you reduce the possibility of participate the peoples could be encouraged to go out of DPC.

Please reread what I wrote properly.

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

06/05/2007 05:36:10 AM · #16

Originally posted by Judi:

Originally posted by Rino63:

Originally posted by Judi:

Or non paying members are allowed to enter two Open Challenges every four weeks. That way the numbers are reduced and people are encouraged to join as a full member!

I am not agree, everyone before become member is only user. If you reduce the possibility of participate the peoples could be encouraged to go out of DPC.

Please reread what I wrote properly.

sorry, at first time I understand that the non members can enter only 2 open challenges every four week.

skylercall

Canon EOS-7D

06/05/2007 05:37:57 AM · #17

I am pretty sure you both are saying the same thing. One likes it while the other does not.

06/05/2007 05:43:08 AM · #18

Originally posted by skylercall:

I am pretty sure you both are saying the same thing. One likes it while the other does not.

perhaps Judy speack english and I speack a strange language :)

goc

Apple iPhone 4

06/05/2007 05:43:57 AM · #19

yea. let's mix everything to the unrecognizable :-)

Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S

06/05/2007 05:48:50 AM · #20

Originally posted by goc:

yea. let's mix everything to the unrecognizable :-)

eheheh sometimes when a my english friend read the messages that I write on DPC she tell that is terribly funny :)

ericwoo

Nikon Z7II

06/05/2007 08:12:34 AM · #21

Either way you look at it, non-paying members are sitting back and reaping the benefit of what we as members pay for. Even more, I think that the non-paying members make it worse for us that do pay by constantly clogging up the challenges. I do my best to vote on every challenge, and every entry, but with so many in each challenge, its difficult. This also reduces the chances that you'll get a worthwhile assessment of you image, as well as place higher. On the front page right now, from all 3 challenges, there are 4 non-member entries in the top 10, with one somehow in the member's challenge. 4 out of 30 is 13%, and I am sure that the percentage is much more substantial overall. Even with 13% less entries, that would drop 68 images off and out of the way of voting and commenting. I say limit what non-payers can enter somehow. I like my 90 day idea, but Judi's 50% each month would also help a ton.

ClubJuggle

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

06/05/2007 08:36:11 AM · #22

How do we reconcile that with Drew and Langdon's staement, made at the time that membership was introduced, that all features that were free at that time would remain free?

~Terry

goc

Apple iPhone 4

06/05/2007 08:43:55 AM · #23

Originally posted by ClubJuggle:

How do we reconcile that with Drew and Langdon's staement, made at the time that membership was introduced, that all features that were free at that time would remain free?

~Terry

with amandment ? :-) j/k

Buckeye_Fan

06/05/2007 08:49:23 AM · #24

Originally posted by ClubJuggle:

How do we reconcile that with Drew and Langdon's staement, made at the time that membership was introduced, that all features that were free at that time would remain free?

~Terry

Times and situations change. I have seen alot of sites that were free in the beginning, become a paying site. This site could be no different. I like the ideas that have been put forth in this thread. There are so many entering and so few voting. I can't vote as much as I use to since there are so many entries. Times are a changin!

edit: bad grammer...need more coffee

Message edited by author 2007-06-05 08:49:49.

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