Originally Posted by BlackGrimReaper

@Angemon i agree with you that people register here just for downloading the ebooks they need but I think the community must be like so much awesome and entertaining that those users are forced to become active and for competition only giving them free subscription is a good idea... Prize money or gift cards and other things must be taken into consideration too.... Because not everybody wants a free subscription sometimes people wants other things too.. And i like you thinking about giving and making extra badges for stammers and I totally agree with you so I am gonna leave it..
But I suggest you to launch one competition on gfx for example with some prize money ofcourse and the conditions to enter could be to share the competition on other sites plus thier artwork and the winner can be decided by public vote.
@Ryuzaki thanks for correcting me and letting me know I am not thrown out.

AND thanks to others too who supported me...

To give you an idea what kind on members we have here , how about you start a competition yourself and you set the rules , I will be the sponsor , means I will pay the prize.

On another forum they have really a lot of small badge and to have them you need to like share a2s.in on your signature in another forum, share a2s.in on your skype, share a2s.in on your facebook/twitter etc its a good way to free advertise but the forum should have more content to let new user stick, when i landed the first time and start reading thread i discovered that they are all pretty old and saturated right now.
in summary what i think will benefit the forum
-more content tips/tutorial
-only one paid subscribtion ( can't understand the value for 2 and the i'm rich tag)
-remove the coin it was a good idea if the forum was big but right now i find it very useless
-implement badge like small icon under the avatar so it won't disturb the user view ( yea i want cool badge ) and some user is more inclined to do something if he have a cool badge for a prize
-this is more a question but why is domain appraisal and request for paid user?
-stop advertise these 2012 old ebooks most of them are useless
I can't think of anything else right now, i will update if have something new

it will be great to see you sharing something @Enoch

tl:dr - seriously, don't read it if you don't want to.
I have gone through all of the posts that our members have made on the thread and most of them have their own opinion about said topic but they are all sharing the same gist, they think that a2s is filled with old "2012 saturated" methods, I really don't think so, almost all the methods work and are being updated frequently by the users, you guys his forujust see a similar method on another forum and think that its not working anymore since so many people use it, the trick to money making is not to directly copy others tutorials, you need to be creative and make your own method, the methods on this forum, if you take an idea from them and create your own, I guarantee you can be making a shit ton of money. Also, most of the people now adays looking at these types of money making methods are lazy as fuck people and they expect to follow a method and do it ditto and make bank. Money Making is like hacking, you are basically a script kiddie, copying others scripts (here others methods) and trying to hack without understanding or editing the script yourself, you have no experience in the field and is that annoying kid in class that everyone hates. While the successful hackers they understand script written by other hackers and make their own better version of the script.
You guys need to innovate, and earn. The angeclub section is there to prevent spammers and to fund the forum with a steady income for keeping it up and running. It constitutes of better and amazing methods that you can get and idea from and make alot of money, you cant just make money free, you need to invest something, be it your precious time or money itself to make more money.
I do think that @Angemon has sort of been advertising the forum a bit wrong but, he is not to blame because these types of forums attract alot of low-quality users and people looking to earn money easily just by the click of a button and there is nothing we can do it prevent that.
We already have a lot of giveaways but those are not proving anything useful BECAUSE we are only attracting users within the forum itself and not other users from outside.
Maybe a contest like a referral contest or something like that, @Angemon needs to look into this, we could design signatures and help setup the event, but we need some sort of way to prevent spammers too, but I'm sure we can come up with something.
I do think that we need to broaden the Graphic's community a bit tho, right now its just me and @legendclaw24 , I was thinking of hosting a logo contest but we simply don't have any goddamn people in that community, I would love to see @Angemon some time ago hosted a drawing contest or something like that and there were amazing submissions, I would like to see something like that again,
Overall I think people should share more of their methods, I honestly don't earn much using money making techniques and I don't dwell in that category, but I like the community that is why I am here, but I do make a steady income while designing, every one is talented in something and must not copy others.
I hope that people understand this situation and do not blame the staff as they are not responsible but the community is indirectly responsible.

Originally Posted by onsali20

tl:dr - seriously, don't read it if you don't want to.
I have gone through all of the posts that our members have made on the forum and most of themhave their own opinion about said topic but they are all sharing the same gist, they think that a2s is filled with old "2012 saturated" methods, I really don't think so, almost all the methods work and are being updated frequently by the users, you guys his forujust see a similar method on another forum and think that its not working anymore since so many people use it, the trick to money making is not to directly copy others tutorials, you need to be creative and make your own method, the methods on this forum, if you take an idea from them and create your own, I guarantee you can be making a shit ton of money. Also, most of the people now adays looking at these types of money making methods are lazy as fuck people and they expect to follow a method and do it ditto and make bank. Money Making is like hacking, you are basically a script kiddie, copying others scripts (here others methods) and trying to hack without understanding or editing the script yourself, you have no experience in the field and is that annoying kid in class that everyone hates. While the successful hackers they understand script written by other hackers and make their own better version of the script.
You guys need to innovate, and earn. The angeclub section is there to prevent spammers and to fund the forum with a steady income for keeping it up and running. It constitutes of better and amazing methods that you can get and idea from and make alot of money, you cant just make money free, you need to invest something, be it your precious time or money itself to make more money.
I do think that @Angemon has sort of been advertising the forum a bit wrong but, he is not to blame because these types of forums attract alot of low-quality users and people looking to earn money easily just by the click of a button and there is nothing we can do it prevent that.
We already have a lot of giveaways but those are not proving anything useful BECAUSE we are only attracting users within the forum itself and not other users from outside.
Maybe a contest like a referral contest or something like that, @Angemon needs to look into this, we could design signatures and help setup the event, but we need some sort of way to prevent spammers too, but I'm sure we can come up with something.
I do think that we need to broaden the Graphic's community a bit tho, right now its just me and @legendclaw24 , I was thinking of hosting a logo contest but we simply don't have any goddamn people in that community, I would love to see @Angemon some time ago hosted a drawing contest or something like that and there were amazing submissions, I would like to see something like that again,
Overall I think people should share more of their methods, I honestly don't earn much using money making techniques and I don't dwell in that category, but I like the community that is why I am here, but I do make a steady income while designing, every one is talented in something and must not copy others.
I hope that people understand this situation and do not blame the staff as they are not responsible but the community is indirectly responsible.

tl:dr for others
Our methods arent old or saturated, you guys are just fucking lazy to work for the money and want it for free and no work

It would be good if we could add a black theme.It looks cool.i mean to old theme.
plus another thing should be added is leaked section with hide function.it really gets traffic just like cpahero
plus if possible add a sidebar that shows todays goal.(500 posts goal) and a bar that fills it.this comes in handy and it motivates.yes it really motivates.
p.s adding leak section in public with comment to unlock function is what will generate engagement.
I am sorry i am currently under depression will tell you details later @Angemon @Ryuzaki @chilivanilli @EdgarT @KidRock

and want me to leak the shit outta other forums?Hell yea i am ready to post that in private section.Just waiting for your call ange

another suggestion i have is points system.we will give them points for posting (this should be different currency than angecoins) and making thread.and users can buy things from those points like psn accounts etc.or start a credits marketplace just like lsx.this way there will be 2 currency.angecoins strictly for ebooks and this for other purposes.since angecoins are expensive these currency will become handy.
in future users can exchange this currency for ange coins .but subs(only from other members not from system) and bet those credits.

That's what I wanted to say too @EdgarT , I mean we have the public ebooks to give our new members an idea how to write e-books , and what kind of "baby steps" ebooks we have in the AngeClub section. Also I have noticed that members are waiting for us to give them tricks , and we keep being the only contributors , they even ask us to disable the coin system so it will be easy for them to get access to such contents without sharing. This is a forum , this is a community , we're all here to learn & earn , it's not a blog or a coaching service , this is a board where everyone need to share to get other's shares.