>I've been a participant for several years, but have never been a subscriber. While I used to receive a tremendous amount of help a few years ago, I never needed any functionality past the basics so I didn't feel the need to get a subscription. I understand that morally I probably had some obligation, but at the same time I knew my employer wouldn't cover it and personally I am pretty cheap.
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>I don't receive nearly the amount of help here as I did before and use UT primarily for social reasons now.
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>Here's a few ideas that could entice me to subscribe:
>1) RSS feed
>2) Twitter integration (new questions posted on twitter)
>3) Daily limit of new messages for non-subscribers
>4) Some sort of visible point system (reputation points, if you will)
>5) Comprehensive code library for subscribers
>6) Perhaps a time delay for non-subscribers new questions?
RSS feed for news is on the way. But, it will not be applicable to the support area as this requires a login and several other issues are related to it.
I am not sure about the Twitter integration. Could you elaborate more on the topic?
I wouldn't want to apply restriction on posting of messages either by regular members or subscribers.
We had a point system before but it didn't work quite well. So, we had to remove it. This has created too much fights and races to obtain the points and so on.
I like number 5. We already have the download section but I understand that a better system might help. I also want to implement a new option for subscribers which will add, probably in the subscription panel, the list of recent threads which contain code. I have found that more and more threads that contain code are highly valuable. So, the robot could populate a relationship table and make it available on the site. There could also be another option added on the toolbar for that.
I do not understand point 6. Could you elaborate more on it?
Basicaly, if some of that would be done, do you think it would then worth more about subscribing?