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pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.
Currently, SA of something awful LLC is making very few efforts to maximize revenue.

As a partial non-owner, I'm very concerned if an activist hedge fund becomes aware of the moribund nature of the forums and the lack of cross-promotional synergizing that's occurring, they may try to take over the Board of Directors, and depose the current management, installing some corporate thugs who will ruin the forums by combining C-Spam and D&D, as well as other, darker, changes meant to drive "engagement".

This is a thread where we can brainstorm ways that the current management can leverage their core competencies and increase fiscal profits, reinvesting into the profits cycle.

My ideas:
Pay per post.
Mega Posting - pay a fee to string multiple posts together
Vote magnification powers - pay to increase your voting power on the threads all important 1-5 purely objective rating scale.

Please like, subscribe, and rate 5.

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Call Your Grandma
Jan 17, 2010

put probe/ban images on the blockchain so users can unlock their value

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Foster more inter-goon strife to drive up purchases of red text AVs. Intergoon strife will also synergize with increased frequency of bans and reregs.

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay dog house
pay to change this thread's tag to ban me :twisted:

Canine Blues Arooo
Jan 7, 2008

when you think about it...i'm the first girl you ever spent the night with

Grimey Drawer
Upvote and Downvote buttons. Boost a post with gold and make it shiny when you scroll by it. Boost it 5 times and it'll play an audio sound.

Get SA premium to disable audio noises on posts.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
SA needs "cravability." We need to create an experience profile that maximizes endorphin feedback and keeps users coming back to maximize engagements and monetization.

Greg of Doom
Dec 22, 2021

by sebmojo
$20 to add a SA Smiley to your AV banner area.

$40 to add a SA Smiley to someone elses AV banner area.

$50 to add a SA Smiley & comment to someone else's sig area and it lasts 15 days.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 12 hours!
Nap Ghost
- pay 50 dollars to move a missed snipe to the top of the page
- pay 100 dollars to become unignorable
- pay 1000 dollars to get a special background and font for your posts

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant
Introducing SA's new currency, Posting Gems! Each post costs one Gem; each user is allotted five Gems daily, and they regenerate automatically once every two hours. But if you just have to post right now, buy a set of Posting Gems now for just $5.99!

Don't forget the daily log-in bonus!

Now if we could just work loot boxes into this somehow...

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.
I’m seeing a lot of commodification but not a lot of gamification.

What if we had SA bucks we could use to purchase some of those items, and we could buy them but also earn them through posting.

1 SA buck earned per empty quote of your post.
25 SA bucks earned if someone is probed when they reply to your post.
Etc..

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

StandardVC10 posted:

Introducing SA's new currency, Posting Gems! Each post costs one Gem; each user is allotted five Gems daily, and they regenerate automatically once every two hours. But if you just have to post right now, buy a set of Posting Gems now for just $5.99!

Don't forget the daily log-in bonus!

Now if we could just work loot boxes into this somehow...

I like gems but what if it was vertebrae?

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 12 hours!
Nap Ghost
and we can spend the bucks to 'mine' a post into the comedy goldmine (based on blockchain technology)

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
What if users had to fight an actual skeleton warrior who would come to their house and attack them?

Greg of Doom
Dec 22, 2021

by sebmojo
Everyonbe should have a character sheet with equiped items list in the sig area and you can pay to upgrade stats and equipment.

It does nothing but you and others can look at it.

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant

pseudanonymous posted:

I’m seeing a lot of commodification but not a lot of gamification.

What if we had SA bucks we could use to purchase some of those items, and we could buy them but also earn them through posting.

1 SA buck earned per empty quote of your post.
25 SA bucks earned if someone is probed when they reply to your post.
Etc..

I'm telling you man, loot boxes. Because if you're going to gamify, you want to just go ahead and cut straight to the chase - slot machines. Remember, the money isn't in running a casino, it's in running a rigged casino.

StandardVC10 fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Mar 12, 2022

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Partner with Goldbelly cookies to make a cookie clicker clone.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
What if you could win things by reading the front page?

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Lootboxes but for good posts. There aren't actually any but the dumb dumbs will keep trying to find one

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

bring back the mexican pizza

PirateDentist
Mar 28, 2006

Sailing The Seven Seas Searching For Scurvy

Colonel Cancer posted:

Lootboxes but for good posts. There aren't actually any but the dumb dumbs will keep trying to find one

Goddamnit this is the 7th manbaby I've gotten in a row. The drop rate on golden manbabies is rigged I say. Can't even get an uncommon striped one.

kaom
Jan 20, 2007


How about the ability to sponsor and donate to a poster, to support their posting career. SA gets a cut as the facilitator and platform.

We can call it Postreon.

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?
We should make an SA NFT
it's non-fungible, but also non-refundable and irredeemable

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

Colonel Cancer posted:

Lootboxes but for good posts. There aren't actually any but the dumb dumbs will keep trying to find one

Maybe posts individually could get rated and if you get a certain amount of post points then you get a loot dropbox and there are different versions of emojis you could get access to, or like special rare goatse and stuff like that. This sounds very engaging.

TheSpamalope
Dec 30, 2008

by sebmojo
Lipstick Apathy
You could make a frikken tutorial to start with i have no idea how anything

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
A whole line of goatse NFTs, pretty sure the originals dead so he won't try to sue

VivaLa Eeveelution
Apr 3, 2011

pseudanonymous posted:

I’m seeing a lot of commodification but not a lot of gamification.

Goondle 5 2/6

🟨⬛️🟨⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

MikeTheCoolOne
Jul 18, 2006

Drinking heavily the night before.

Dead and gamified

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind
foreverially gamified & loving it

Greg of Doom
Dec 22, 2021

by sebmojo
Pay $100 to be able to make special invisible posts that only others who have paid $100 can see.

Greg of Doom
Dec 22, 2021

by sebmojo
Posts have hitpoints based on a variety of factors and other posters can "attack" or "heal" a post and if it loses HP it changes to an Ignored User style post for everyone.

Greg of Doom
Dec 22, 2021

by sebmojo

Greg of Doom posted:

Pay $100 to be able to make special invisible posts that only others who have paid $100 can see.

Posts could also only be seen via check box by certain groups such as Gang Tags or some kinds of Friends List.

Dr. Benway
Dec 9, 2005

We can't stop here! This is bat country!

Pontificating rear end posted:

We should make an SA NFT
it's non-fungible, but also non-refundable and irredeemable

NFT ALL users avatars. Replace with SA "Approved" NFTs. Require user to "Purchase" both NFTs to revert back. Profit.

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
Goons need to dress sexier

DicktheCat
Feb 15, 2011

You guys are just reinventing Gaia online, you know.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Hype trains.


What? No, not like twitch. It's a train you get on and post

Empty Sandwich
Apr 22, 2008

goatse mugs

VivaLa Eeveelution posted:

Goondle 5 2/6

🟨⬛️🟨⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

speleology

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




what if you could pay a few bucks to change someone's avatar to embarrass them? like bright red text highlighting their bad opinions, for example.

Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

Bad Purchase posted:

what if you could pay a few bucks to change someone's avatar to embarrass them? like bright red text highlighting their bad opinions, for example.

And then you could sit back, watch them flip out in their posts and blame the wrong goon and whine and cry until they get a mod to blank it.

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug

Pontificating rear end posted:

We should make an SA NFT
it's non-fungible, but also non-refundable and irredeemable

Iredeemable, just like the average goon!

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Yaldabaoth
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
The end goal of capitalism is corporations taking the form of giant robots that fly around the universe consuming whole planets and even stars, and the more they consume, the higher their stock price goes.

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