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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5137930" data-attributes="member: 63">First, I'm thrilled the site is prospering.Second, it looks rather untenable to sell the community on ditching sigs, or anything really. Even just floating the idea has generated a lot of ill emotions, and this site lives and dies with its community.I figure most folks would be fine with a gradient, so casual sigs are available to all, but bigger ones are only available to subscribers. However, that's pretty niche, and I could foresee people making more bright, flashy sigs just because they can. That might end up an unintended annoyance.Third, there are plenty of new stuff that can be added that would encourage more people to subscribe, even to an epic tier. (I prefer thinking that all posters are heroic, subscribers are paragon, and supersubscribers are epic.) Making a 'gamer finder' free to all could be balanced by, say, offering personal forums to epic subscribers, and perhaps something like a weekly "cool on EN World" -- the niftiest new thread in 3 or 4 forums, voted on by the epic folks, posted on the home page. Storyhour folks could strive for recognition, min-maxers would compete for the jankiest build, and GMs would be encouraged to post their best ideas.Make them into actual epic heroes by empowering them to spread word of excellent threads. And, I dunno, offer 'epic destinies' as a gimmick. It could be something as simple as a second line on the User Title, perhaps with a colorful highlight.Thornir AlekegD&D expatriateScion of Drunkeness(or whatever)</blockquote>

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