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Post Post #125 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:21 pm

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I'm still shocked we all came back alive from playing Survivor in a cabin in the woods.
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Post Post #126 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:24 pm

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In post 72, Firebringer wrote:
In post 63, Thestatusquo wrote:I um. I want this to come across in the most undickish way possible...but it might come out rude anyway...

Who in their right minds thinks this site is worth money?

It generates no revenue, has a user base that continues to decline and requires hosting costs that are not recouped in any way.

It's been a great thing for me throughout my life and I'm very thankful to the people who continue to put hard work and money into keeping it running, but the idea that someone would pay money for the privilege of chucking money down the hosting black hole and dealing with the constant aggravation of users like shotty is mind boggling to me.
I have ideas how we can make this site profitable.

First we put up advertisement space everywhere, I am talking top of the pages, I am talking the sides, and the bottom of pages too.
Next we need to do even more than that. I say before any players see a flip they have to watch a minute video on car insurance, preferably gieco.
All roles will be delivered but you have to watch another add about Budweiser or something, maybe from most interesting man in the world.

These are all just ideas, but I bet we can turn this boat around and make MS great again.
OR...

Owner could sell t-shirts with assorted Roles/Alignments on them, like "3P Rolecop," "Town Jailkeeper," "Mafia Doctor."
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Post Post #127 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:29 pm

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clearly merchandising is the way. example:

http://www.zazzle.com/epicmafia

i mean, epicmafia pacifiers sell like HOTCAKES guys. u gotta get in on this market. just take a look at this quality product

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Post Post #128 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:33 pm

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In post 117, hitogoroshi wrote:Another fun idea: get a bunch of big ms personalities in a game together and folks can donate to the site to join a spectator thread. Maybe one thread with role/setup reveals and one without.
This has potential.
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Post Post #129 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:12 pm

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In post 125, Shadoweh wrote:I'm still shocked we all came back alive from playing Survivor in a cabin in the woods.
I had an envelope labelled "In Case I Get Murderized"
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Post Post #130 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:25 pm

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In post 129, Xalxe wrote:
In post 125, Shadoweh wrote:I'm still shocked we all came back alive from playing Survivor in a cabin in the woods.
I had an envelope labelled "In Case I Get Murderized"
Yeah not a bad idea.
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Post Post #131 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:38 pm

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In post 128, Klingoncelt wrote:
In post 117, hitogoroshi wrote:Another fun idea: get a bunch of big ms personalities in a game together and folks can donate to the site to join a spectator thread. Maybe one thread with role/setup reveals and one without.
This has potential.
who would honestly pay for that though <_<
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Post Post #132 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:39 pm

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In post 113, GreyICE wrote:So what, sell book of items for Team Mafiascum?
Sell online cosmetics that cost $0 to make.

Custom user titles, custom name font, custom whatever we can alter in php visually.
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Post Post #133 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:42 pm

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I'm assuming the zazzle.com thing was a joke but I'd buy items with mafiascum stuff on it
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Post Post #134 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:44 pm

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I mean I bought the card deck, if we figure out an easier way to distribute and actually make profit on doing so that'd be great. I know lots of people who would be willing to buy mafia cards, I have nothing to recommend them because all the on the market shit is awful atm.
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Post Post #135 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:48 pm

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The amount of people taking things too seriously in this thread gave me a good laugh.

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Post Post #136 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:49 pm

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http://www.makeplayingcards.com/design/ ... -card.html

I think I used this to make my personal deck I use for meetups
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Post Post #137 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:58 pm

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On SomethingAwful you can pay $5 to change your avatar and title

Or for $10 you can change someone else's
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Post Post #138 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:17 pm

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In post 131, BBmolla wrote:
In post 128, Klingoncelt wrote:
In post 117, hitogoroshi wrote:Another fun idea: get a bunch of big ms personalities in a game together and folks can donate to the site to join a spectator thread. Maybe one thread with role/setup reveals and one without.
This has potential.
who would honestly pay for that though <_<
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Post Post #139 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:23 pm

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In post 132, BBmolla wrote:Custom user titles
how dare you
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Post Post #140 (ISO) » Thu Jul 07, 2016 9:29 pm

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In post 131, BBmolla wrote:
In post 128, Klingoncelt wrote:
In post 117, hitogoroshi wrote:Another fun idea: get a bunch of big ms personalities in a game together and folks can donate to the site to join a spectator thread. Maybe one thread with role/setup reveals and one without.
This has potential.
who would honestly pay for that though <_<
You can't even get me to read games I'm IN, what makes you think I'd pay to read one I'm NOT in? :lol:
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Post Post #141 (ISO) » Fri Jul 08, 2016 2:06 am

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In post 137, kuribo wrote:On SomethingAwful you can pay $5 to change your avatar and title

Or for $10 you can change someone else's
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Post Post #142 (ISO) » Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:06 am

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In post 123, kuribo wrote:What about a series of MMA fights on Internet pay per view where scummers step into the octagon against one another to settle their forums grudges

I'm sure someone would pay to watch users whoop one another
We could call it Scumfights


Now I kinda wanna do it for free regardless
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Post Post #143 (ISO) » Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:09 am

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In post 136, BBmolla wrote:http://www.makeplayingcards.com/design/ ... -card.html

I think I used this to make my personal deck I use for meetups
tbh this isn't a bad deal

i was looking for something like this the other day and it was much more expensive

my business cards on moo.com cost over $1 a card (though i use a pretty fancy + gold foil design)
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Post Post #144 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:03 pm

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Post Post #145 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:10 pm

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announcement: effective immediately we are implementing kappy's suggestions with exactly zero edits.
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Post Post #146 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:23 pm

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In post 96, Kison wrote:There's definitely value in the site. A lot of people visit it, it has good SEO visibility & a ton of content. That foundation is valuable and not trivial to replicate.

Would you be able to make boatloads of money monetizing it today? Probably not. But think about how basic what we have is: a message board, the onsite chat & wiki. There's a ton of room to improve:
- Better website(moving wiki content there, building face-to-face app(kind of like Fibbage), building realtime game app with simple graphics)
- Improving what we currently have: streamlining the queues, modernizing the forum gameplay, better mobile optimization

This isn't me trying to persuade anyone to buy it(I'm here because it's fun to build stuff, don't care about $), but more to get people excited about the things we can do and can build if we just get excited about and focus on it.
id like to help but i don't know how without being...pesky
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Post Post #147 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:30 pm

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oh no
am i being pesky right now??
oh no
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Post Post #148 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:51 pm

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In post 145, zoraster wrote:announcement: effective immediately we are implementing kappy's suggestions with exactly zero edits.
You do realize for ten bucks Shotty can come back.
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Post Post #149 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:54 pm

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Why would you ever buy any of the memberships 6-month gold or above? For the same price you can become an admin and grant yourself an exemption from dues entirely.
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