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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 5137501" data-attributes="member: 2525">New Idea for the Signatures aspect of the subscriptions:Tier 0 (free): Non-commercial simple signature line.  A few lines of text and links allowed (no graphics, as that costs EW more in bandwidth), as long as they are not an ad or a link to a commercial product or commercial site.  Enforced mostly based on the honors system (you're all honorable, right?).  This tier includes things like links to favorite threads, story hours, non-commercial gaming blogs, favorite characters, PBP recruitment, etc... are all non-commercial in nature and would be free (provided they had no graphics in the signature, which take up extra bandwidth that EW has to pay for).Tier 1 (Heroic): Commercial simple signature line.  Text and links allowed. No graphics.  Things like my signature, which has a link to my company, a commercial business, <a href="http://www.academicapparel.com" target="_blank">Academic Caps and Gowns</a> (see what I did there?).  However, it has no graphics.  So it would qualify for the Tier 1 rate (Heroic).Tier 2 (Paragon): Non-commercial or Commercial signature line with graphics.  Text, Links, and Graphics allowed.  Things like this in your signature would be Tier 2, because it both costs EW more in bandwidth, and ads more value to the commercial venture to attract attention with a graphic:<img src="http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6047/enworld.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />A lot of people have links to their gaming company, donation or ad-supported blog, and other sites with a commercial aspect to them, and those would all be under Tier 1 or 2 (depending on whether they had graphics in the signature).Make sense? That way most people lose nothing from the new subscription model, and most of the utility of signatures is kept intact for links to useful non-commercial gaming information.  Some people will have to choose if they want to pay to offer a link to their potentially money making website in a signature line or else leave that link out, but it seems reasonable to ask for money back for something that makes a person money.</blockquote>

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