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Distinguishing Graphic for Permanent Accounts & Subsequent Userinfo Changes
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Permanent accounts are distinctly differnet from paid accounts. Permanent accounts should have a distinguishing graphic on their userinfo page, and the link to the paid account area on the green thumbs-up sign should be changed
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Further differentiating permanent accounts with a different usericon is kind of silly, IMO. We don't have a different usericon for paid accounts, why should we have one for permanent accounts? While I wouldn't be opposed to changing the green thumbs up to a blue thumbs up or something like that, I don't feel it's really necessary to do so.
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2) There are reasons, and I gave two of them...
2a) Paid accounts are different from permanent accounts, distinctly.
2b) It's confusing to make the two different account types look so similar.
3) The different user icon was just an afterthought. Always give people two options. The blue thumb is my preferred indicator. It's subtle.
4) More importantly, the linked page needs to be changed from /paidaccount/ because that is technically innacurate; even the benefits are a little different.
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Do we plan to sell more permanent accounts? When?
There are no current plans to sell more. It's a delicate issue: we don't want to sell them too cheap, or too expensive, and finding the right number to sell isn't easy. Although selling more permanent accounts isn't entirely out of the question, we don't have any plans for another sale.
see http://www.livejournal.com/~news/75106.html... )
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There were other points to my post, though. Mostly that they're technically innacurate. I replied to other comments, here.
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The easiest and most popular way for any user to get their own green thumb is by buying a paid account, so it makes perfect sense to have the green thumb link to /paidaccounts/ regardless of account type.
Finally, the distinction between Paid and Permanent Accounts is already made on userinfo.bml - and, notably, the words "Account Type" already link to FAQ 38 - so a change to the thumb icon for Permanent Account holders would, at most, be cosmetic and useless.
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Free/paid/permanent accounts are not different journal types; a paid community is the same as a free community plus certain features, and a permanent user is the same as a free user plus certain features. Since this feature information is not useful in the context of the user icon, this sort of visual distinction based solely on paid status seems, to me, to be pointlessly divisive.
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On part two, I strongly disagree that the user icon should differ for different account statuses. Free/paid/permanent accounts are not different journal types; a paid community is the same as a free community plus certain features, and a permanent user is the same as a free user plus certain features. Since this feature information is not useful in the context of the user icon, this sort of visual distinction based solely on paid status seems, to me, to be pointlessly divisive.
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