This thread will list all user suggested features/ideas. I will organise them into two sections. Standard Members and Premium Members
Standard Members
Premium Members
I will update the list as often as I can 
Racism…lol
Edit: There is a question going in my mind. Why somebody will pay just for taking and giving help? Do you think anybody on this site requires any of this
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lol, I see your point, I will updating with allot of information as to how the ranks/membership levels, work, e.g. Normal Members, Active Members, Premium Members
About paying, now that’s optional no one is asking to pay to use the site, it’s free and always will be! It does however cost us to keep the site online.
Now when you have a small site, it costs little to host, but the larger the site gets, the more it can cost, as a result many sites have optional premium members. e.g. on other sites you would get extra features such as the ability to store extra PM’s, have his/her username in gold colour, have the ability to move own threads etc
This payment goes towards helping with hosting costs ONLY. As to why someone would pay, it’s up to them! They want to be recognized as supporting members, want the extra PM storage etc etc etc
Thanks for explainig, I got your point.
‘HOWTO Tips ‘n’ Tricks Forum’
An open forum where anyone can contribution. Full of indepth guides and tutorials. Anyone can modify the tutorials as they see fit, although i’d recommend a minimum post count of about 50 to stop possible vandalism.
This has been discused before, in a thread created by Matt555. But I thought i’d stick it in here as well.
so a bit like wiki? I’d need to make it so all changes are tracked so we can restore if needed?
I guess your exams are all finished then? Hope they went well 
Maybe add stuff like the flags, but instead of a flag, add a $ sign, stars, or something as well as a gold name to indicate the ‘donator’ status.
Additional site themes for the donators - someone would have to design them and set them up, but that would be an incentive.
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so a bit like wiki?
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Yup
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I’d need to make it so all changes are tracked so we can restore if needed?
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I guess so, but I think the ‘minimum post count’ should solve possible vandalism. Just like we have a ‘minimum post count’ for the ‘Buy/Sell/Trade forums’.
Agreed. Gold is a good colour
I don’t think it would be a good idea to allow ‘Red, Green or Purple’ in the users pallete, as that could conflict with Staff colours.
I’m liking the suggestions, gold for the donator status would be good - I also like the idea of having a currency sign instead of the flag if you’ve contributed - that’s a cool idea. I’d gladly contribute :good:
So the Premium Members would get more control over their actions? (IE ability to move own threads etc…)
What about having a Premium Members only section where other things can be discussed? (just an idea - no idea what ‘other things’ could be discussed really - just a thought)
Also how would the contributions be made? Paypal maybe? How much will contribution be? Can you choose different levels of contribution?
Sniper, perhaps you should offer the Gold Member service on a one month free trial That way we’d all get to play with all the features on offer!
Hopefully we’d miss the added features so much when our trial expired, that we’d just have to sign up for good!
yup, I have finished uni, exams went quite well thanks.
I have work in a bit..(working part-time) currently writing a case review after which I will update the first post as to how ranks etc work around here and add more info about gold members, I think $10/year sounds good? A trial sounds like a good idea, I’ll see what I can do with that.
Sounds good Sniper, $10 a year is more than reasonable.
I’ll buy 3 years in advance
Wow, $10 a year really isn’t that much, shouldn’t be a problem for most of us to pay. Good luck with results :).
I think that the wiki thing could be good, but maybe a bit above 50 posts. 100 or more maybe, and that will also require the changes tracking system.
What about that shop feature, I remember Sniper saying it was here a while back but it was suggested by Exfoliate I think and generally was thought of as a good idea.
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I think that the wiki thing could be good, but maybe a bit above 50 posts. 100 or more maybe, and that will also require the changes tracking system.
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I’d like to see a little ‘acknowledgements box’ at the bottom of each guide that listed the members who had contributed to it.
I’ve got several HOWTOs that i’ve been writing up recently. The problem is that none of them are anywhere near finished and I don’t have enough time to work on them at the moment.
With the WIKI system, I could post what I have done so far and let other members finish them.
Some of the HOWTOs i’ve been working on:
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[li]HOWTO Make Partitions in FDISK
[/li][li]HOWTO Initialise & Make Partitions in Disk Management
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Those two guides are the follow up to my HOWTO Install A Second Hard Disk guide.
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[li]HOWTO: Customise ubuntu for an older computer (ubuntu on ice!)
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[li]HOWTO: Hauppauge Remote Control in Kubuntu
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I’ve just posted that one in the Linux forums
Sniper, for the time being could you create the HOWTO forum and then later, when you have time, turn it into a wiki?
Let me have a chat with the admins first
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Let me have a chat with the admins first
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That’s fair enough
If I am pushing my weight, feel free to tell me where to stick it