Pay forums are the best forums.

Grandfather in our current accounts though.

This is an excellent way to drive away longtime members and reduce forum growth to zero.

IT would be the end of VG chartz. There would be no growth, only the real old timers would hang around. Yes you would have your little clique but for how long?

QFT.

I'd support a Donate button and some kind of paid Premium account with some type of extra benefits.

No, I don't think that's a good idea.

I think it's a wonderful idea!

We ARE tossing around ideas on how to completely destroy this place, right?

Hey! My idea wouldn't hurt VGChartz at all.

We already have those.  They're called avatars.

Well you know how when you go into someone's profile it says "VGChartz Pro", "VGChartz God", etc...?

Why not show these below our usernames? I only showed those .gifs because I thought it would give a little incentive for someone to pay for "No ads".

Completely optional, doesn't hurt the site.

It is like you donate a bit to VGChartz and they give you something in return like no advertisements and a cool nifty username tag.