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Re: Brickshelf going away???
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Tue, 31 May 2005 18:31:25 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bryan Wong wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Rick Clark wrote:
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I’d certainly be for micropayments for uploading images. I don’t know
how many images are uploaded each day/week/month, but at $.01 each, I
should think the income might add up, yet wouldn’t break anybody.
It’d be nice to keep the ability to view images free, though, since it
opens up the building community to the rest of the world.
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Yes I would also support a free to view, pay to upload system on Brickshelf.
I don’t know how much work it would take to implement this, but you could
have a monthly, quarterly, and/or annual subscription fee that may give you
(un)limited uploading priveleges (ok maybe limit the total size of your
files depending on your subscription “package”). Or, users can also choose
a “pay as you go” method, maybe a few cents ($0.02?) per picture with
additional restrictions.
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Maybe I’m in the minority, but I would not be willing to pay $0.02 or even $0.01
per picture I put on Brickshelf. With that pricing scheme, I’d much sooner setup
my own domain and pay for a website hosting.
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I think that switching over to a pay to upload system would simply “weed out”
the not-so-serious AFOLs/ALEs. Hopefully, it would encourage Brickshelf
users to transfer/exchange more “standardized” and better quality files.
For those that are unwilling to pay to use this service, there are other
(free) hosting services and picture hosting sites out there...
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I’d be suprised if anyone started out as a serious ALE. When I first got into
building, I’d have never paid to show pictures on Brickshelf. I just wouldn’t
have shared my creations. And not sharing my creations means that I might not
have grown as a builder. (Well *I* might have, as I’d probably have gotten
feedback from MichLUG members, but not every person getting into the hobby has
an active club near them.)
Jason Spears | BrickShelf Gallery | MichLUG | CLB
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| (...) I guess the main point I'm trying to make (and not doing such a good job about it) is that we're trying to come up with ways to help pay for Brickshelf without having all of the costs coming out of the owner's pocket directly. The ideal system (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Yes I would also support a free to view, pay to upload system on Brickshelf. I don't know how much work it would take to implement this, but you could have a monthly, quarterly, and/or annual subscription fee that may give you (un)limited (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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