Who thinks we should pay 1p for every post we make?

then you wouldn't be able to post :(

brilliant idea

50 pence fine for any swear words

10p a post imo. i dont want to read the views of poor people

^ Fishermen £1.00

It's a real feel good factor idea I think. We would know every post, however mundane, is at least going towards a good cause. Imagine if we could raise a few thousand pounds in a year, something that would really make a difference to somebody. It would be great.

good idea imo

Great reply bito :^0

I wonder if Betfair would be interested in hearing about my idea? It would have the obvious benefit to them of meaning anyone who wished to post would have to keep their accounts funded.

is there nothing they wont tax??!! :(

would bf want 5% of the 1p's donated to this charity?

premium charge users like myself could pay more

pc charge imo

Yeah great news, a mass sprint to see which **ctard can gain status as Betfairs first platinum poster.

**tard.....thought so

£10,000 is a nice number. Then no-one could post, eh?

and 1p for every read

19p for charity already plus the tax back, happy days

And you lose nectar points for the use of smileys

:-(

the world is relying on the combined genius of the betfair forum to save us all from armageddon. your seemingly innocent penny could have terrible consequences imo

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Just getting my money's worth.

Exactly. All that for a penny, it's a bargain. And you'd be doing a good turn as well.

£10 for any spelling mistake.

thats scandulas 10 pounds

for £10 I wo'nt make any then

No, misspella s much as you like Phil. It would be too hard to charge for something like that anyway, but to take a penny from an account for each post doesn't sound too difficult a thing to organise technology wise, does it?

Good idea munch man. Quite happy with it.

I wonder how much it would raise in a year?

Postings about cats to cost 9p.

couldnt we make it 0.1p a post

Does anybody have a reasonable idea roughly how many posts across all the forums are made in one year?

Quite a lot.

more than a million?

I'd say so, across all fora.

It would raise £10,000 per million posts wouldn't it?

Yes

Any post by some ponces longing to be the next Gordon Ramsey should cost £50. The amount of threads that mention food and have some c0ck posting something like:

Just pan fry it in a light olive oil. Add a smidge of garlic and sprinkle a bit of feta and grill for 10 minutes....mmmmmmmmm...delish.

You type of people need to take a long look at yourself.

Foodie wannabes.

Posting fees could be offset against premium charges :)

lets do it,ive 6p left in my account ,im already stressing over it, ive got post traumatic stress disorder

Then go and spend a penny

:^0 1p to post? Have a day off.

The dross, the krap and the rubbish are what makes this forum & the others.

no change then?

Paying to talk a load of sh!t would not stop most people on the forum from posting.

That's okay, so what if all the nonsense still gets posted. If it is raising money for a very good cause, who cares? surely nobody would be so mean as to begrudge a penny a post, and the combined posting of all of us could raise a worthwhile donation to give to a deserving cause at christmas

I would be so mean. I wouldn't post if it cost 1p per post. :)

if you're that hard up dan, i'll sponsor you and pay yours then, as long as you don't take the mick and post endless nonsense just to bankrupt me.

I'd say multiply a million by 20 and you'll be nearer the mark. Maybe 50 or even more.

Nowt to do with being hard up at all. If I had a million quid in my account (I don't) I wouldn't pay 1p to post.

I don't gamble anymore, therefore when I came back on the forum I lodged a tenner, stuck it on something and lost it. And won't be lodging again until i'm told I have to, to post (If that day ever arises). Absolutely nothing to do with the financial side of it, it's do with having to pay to post on a forum, something i'd never do.

I reckon 80million posts a year.

really mitchell? surely not! that's a very large number mate.

why not dan?
i believe nearly everyone is charitable at heart, even if they come across as heartless gits on here sometimes. if you knew that your penny was going to as noble as cause as helping sick kids, or the homeless, or keeping the elderly warm, or something equally worthwhile, surely this would be a good idea.

Well munch, there's over a million threads in the archive, going back say 4 years? Multiply a million by say an average of 20 posts a thread and divide by 4 and you get, ermm 5 million a year. lol

If they went ahead with this, i'd have no objection and i'm sure the great majority wouldn't. I wouldn't post though, if I want to give money to charitable causes (I rarely do :D ) I'd choose them myself.

Hosting a quiz could cost me a quid ;) :^0

5 million a year would be fifty grand! that would be brilliant woudn't it!
i'm a bit of a chit chat quiz player myself dan and i wouldn't mind if it cost me a quid. i'd be pleased to give it for a worthy cause and it would still be value for a few hours entertainment.

It would be excellent. Would probably cost me £3 a month. Happy with that.

all charity is corrupt ,always someone creaming off it, look at those romanian orphans, loads collected for them, still as bad

a lot of charity may be corrupt as you say yorky, but not all.

make it 0.1 p and im in

i can see where the idea comes from but instead why not just offer all the d1ckheads a tenner each and tell them to fvck off and not come back?

can i have mine in cash?

easter, even though i said i thought the 1p levy would reduce the number of nonsense threads this wasn't my main objective. i just thought that it might be a welcome side effect. raising money to give away was the main reason though. i really wouldn't care if the nonsense threads remained as they would all be contributing.

most of the nonsense threads would surely disappear though.

maybe? 1p isn't a lot though is it? if all the nonsense threads were posted by people with zero accounts then it would naturally.

can't be bothered reading all this and working out whether it is fishing or serious, but...

surely a better rule would be - can't post unless you have had a matched bet in the last week??

i would support that

it's not fishing at all, why would it be? i genuinely think it is a good idea.

why would it be??

because about 80% of threads here seem to be fishing atm

i actually like your idea, BUT i don't support paying just to post, because it would probably get rid of good value posters who aren't well off or philosophically disagree, unless that money was returned from your next commission

but that could be too hard to organise, so maybe a 'matched bet in the last week rule' might get rid of some of the loons who start those fishing threads

i think your idea would be harder to organise than mine. and it wouldn't raise any money for charity

would definitely support lies proposal over OP. both worthy ideas tho.

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73p made already on this thread. Pudsy is seething.

74p

would be 75p if the idea was implemented.

The I'm opening the first chit-chat pub thread would have raised £110.36 alone :0

i say free to write a post but pay 60k to read other people's.....

1p a post not a lot to ask imo

munch man
bit unfair on Quiz runners , Quiz referees and Admin Team don't you think ?
Why give BF the chance to charge us more ?

it's only a penny joe. and i'm a quizzer myself remember. if taking part in a big quiz cost a quid, and it went to a good cause like a kiddies hospital or something, i wouldn't mind at all. still very good value entertainment too.

The Leopard would be skint in a week :D

munch man
Referees would be paying that per game !!
several a day , day after day
as would admin ..
and BF will step in and charge 4p per post if you carry on :D

Yep a penny per post and a penny per swear word. Should clean the place up nicely.
Quizzes could be held on a 'free forum' such as competitions.
Obviously some cheap donuts would invade that forum but would be open to being reported to the moderator and of course p1ss ripped out of 'em for trying to find a loophole to save 1p!

I've only got 21p in my account as I keep following my own tips :-(

joe
i don't think it would cost referees that much imo. and if it proved to be too costly for them maybe the players to chip in to cover the costs.
i really do not think anyone would be paying more than small change in a week, and if at the end of the year we could see that several thousand pounds went to a very worthy cause it would be a real feel good factor for us all to thibk we had helped St Barts, or a kiddies hospice or something like that - something that nobody would begrudge giving a few quid to.

remember - i'm advocating all the pennies go to charity, not just a betfair charge for posting.

Must be two posts a minute on chit chat alone. - 2500/day. about 1 million a year on chitchat.

That is a v.rough estimate, because from 2am to 8am you might only get a few dozen posts fullstop. Where as some quiz threads will get 1000+ on their own in 2 and a halfhours or so.

1 million from chit chat.

so I would guess something similar (or more?) from horse racing and football. = 3 million. must be at least 5 million/year across all fora imo.

if your calculations are correct positively4street, then maybe 1p is too much. a halfpenny would generate plenty. I only suggested a penny because I thought everyone could spare a few pennies and it would be an easy figure to deduct from an account.

I think we should have price sensitive prciing
e.g like
Ryanair

During uk racing ,say two till five
One penny
Outside racing times
say
Tuppence

:)

I have worked out that 88.237% of my winnings last year would be used up if this charge is implimented.

Also I doubt in 2010 I could win anywhere near £68,000 :(

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