So after putting up a notice a couple weeks ago that we were going to start charging a $4.95 “setup fee” for new forums, signup requests all but disappeared. We still had a few people request it anyway without paying, and we had one single person actually send us the $5 (thanks dude!). It seems that the price point for this thing is either zero or non zero. I assume that I could charge $0.50 or $50.00 and I would get the same response, because as soon as people see that its not free, they’re gone.

Which sucks, because the only reason we instituted that was to cut down on wasteful forum sign ups and cull down the account requests to only those that were actually going to use them (instead of like the other 80% of forum requests which don’t even get installed by the requesters). Didn’t seem to work though, so I took it back down and just tried to stress more that while these things are free, it just takes up my time to set them up.

In response, we had 11 forum signups in the queue waiting on me today.

Cmon critical mass… where the hell are you.