100 post rule and newbie-spam

[daytonadragon]

I would take it one step further by making non VP's pay a membership fee of say $20 after being a member of RG for 6 months if they don't upgrade to VIP.

I suggest non VIP members have to pay a $5 to $10 listing fee when they sell a watch, watch parts, and other items on RG,

I would also ban newbies for posting contents of PM's they post in a thread which they send to members when they do not like the response they get for the PM they sent to the RG member. This would send a message to the newbies who post spam and improve the overall quality of post threads.

[ferr3t]

I would take it one step further by making non VP's pay a membership fee of say $20 after being a member of RG for 6 months if they don't upgrade to VIP.

I suggest non VIP members have to pay a $5 to $10 listing fee when they sell a watch, watch parts, and other items on RG.

I strongly disagree with that. The VIP thing as I understand it is a donation to keep the site running, not a 'price of admission'. There's plenty of long-term non-VIP members here who'd be shut out by such a policy. Coming from the angle that the VIP donation is about keeping the site alive, it doesn't make sense to enact a policy where the VIP status is the thing that shoots it in the guts and leaves it to bleed out.

As for non-VIP sales made to pay per thread, it also punishes VIPs by having less on offer in the market.