Little update... every visitor to BM is now required to login after viewing more than 3 pages. No more ghosts browsing around the profiles anonymously.
Hang on , do you mean "3 pages " as in 3 profiles or 3 pages of profiles ? If its the latter , thats an awful lot of profiles that can still be viewed anonymously ?
3 pages. So they open the homepage, click "members" or "Forums" etc. Then 1 more profile (maybe 1 topic in the forums, or maybe 1 profile) That's it, then they have to login.
Until now anyone could just browse (most of) the site without logging in at all.
Hopefully it'll see an increase in the number of new member registrations
I put that to some members both standard and non standard a few weeks ago and the general concensus was the initial lump sum payment could be a problem for some. Do members who pay on a weekly basis, or perhaps take a short term subscription still get a discount at the start of their second year?
The "personal discount" applied to everyone's upgrade page is built up of a number of things.
For example - your karma on the site, whether you've previously upgraded (and how much), how much you want to upgrade for this time (longer upgrade = more discount).
So yep - even if you upgrade for just 1 week, you'll get a discount the 2nd time you upgrade. The site calculates how much you've contributed in total previously and adds a % discount to your bonus/discount for this top-up.