Invite Only

Subject: Invite Only July 22nd 2008, 10:03 am

I always have ideas, and well this time i've been thinking of making the site invite-only. While it sounds like it's just going to get less members, my reverse phsycology on this is that it will do that opossite, and generate more fame and members for the site. This is a big idea so I want to know what everyone thinks before I go ahead with this.

Here is what I would do.

Every month, a selective amount of top members will get 10 "invite codes". You can send out those invites to people and when they register they enter that code.

It would also significantly cut leeching and perhaps improve the amount of "exclusive" things we have.

Personally I think we SHOULD do this, because we can try it out for one week, see how it goes, and if it went bad I'd just activate all the users that tried joining during that time and everything would be back to normal

Banned From : Germany OS : XP

jeh. i agree with that. let's try it.

Resident Artist From : Devon, England OS : Vista

Might as well try it happy

Regular Visitor From : South Germany OS : WinXP SP3

yea try it, sounds rlly good cool

Member From : México OS : Windows XP

I agree

Veteran Member OS : OS X 10.5.6

Sure, try it, if it doesn't work out, you can always go back

Regular Visitor From : Florida OS : XP Pro

I agree.

Moderator OS : Vista

Sounds like a good concept, if it doesn't work, can just go back.

Subscriber From : UK OS : Windows 7

Good idea.

Member OS : XP :(

try it. limitedly. it might make or kill it

Resident Pixeljunkie From : Frozen Acres OS : Buggy XP

If you're really intending on making this site exclusive, the invite only is a good way of going about it.
But invitations should go through moderators for a second check.
Giving those invites away would defeat the whole purpose.
There is one thing though...
Be prepared to be criticized and don't expect to dramatically increase the number of members as the whole point of exclusivity is to keep a community "tight".
As everyone says, you can always switch back if it doesn't work out.
If the later is the case, then you might think about the fact that your exclusives section is bigger than your public releases section.
While it might motivate a few new members, it discourages others.

I'm New OS : Mac OS 10.5.4

I find exclusivity very appealing happy

... I can imagine that that's the same for many others, so I agree smile

. Let's try it. It might boost the member number.

Subject: Re: Invite Only July 22nd 2008, 1:55 pm

We are now in invite only status. People who i sent codes to, use them happy

Member From : Dow City, Iowa OS : Mac OS X leopard 10.5.6

i vote yes
lets give it a try

Kid Sister From : NYC OS : Mac OS X

ok I think it will add more appeal to the community from outsiders. I hope we have positive results happy

Regular Visitor From : Canada

Yeah this sounds like an interesting experiment that will most likely pay off, nice idea.

Veteran Member

Perfect idea mate!

I'm New

I've also voted for yes smile

Regular Visitor From : Sydney OS :  Leopard 10.5.6

Great idea ! cool

It'll definitely help increase the activity of the forum . . . though with time .

Subject: Re: Invite Only July 23rd 2008, 9:44 am

@Alexx, that's what I've been thinking as well, over time it will generate much for activity smile

So far today, i've gotten 3 invite requests. Seems to be going pretty well for just the first day!

Regular Visitor From : Seattle, WA OS : Windows Vista

I think this will help a lot happy

Subject: Re: Invite Only July 23rd 2008, 6:45 pm

change the wording in the header to not INVITE ONLY... that makes it sound like you have to be liked to get in and thats not the case... we just want to make sure that u have a dA page right? or do u really want to restrict the members to only people we like?

Kid Sister From : NYC OS : Mac OS X

so um...some dude from insanelymac send me a pm asking if i have invite? i dunno who the hell he is :undecided:
he asked nicely... how do i know who to invite?

Regular Visitor From : S/W England OS : Leopard

chekkz wrote:: so um...some dude from insanelymac send me a pm asking if i have invite? i dunno who the hell he is :undecided:
he asked nicely... how do i know who to invite?

Ask to look at their dA page, or whatever they've got to show.

Subject: Re: Invite Only July 25th 2008, 4:44 am

chekkz wrote:: so um...some dude from insanelymac send me a pm asking if i have invite? i dunno who the hell he is :undecided:
he asked nicely... how do i know who to invite?

~~Tell them to give you their dA page. If theres nothing amazing eye catching horiffic send them one of the codes. This isnt for the exclusive section you know~~

Just send him a code smile