My overall take on Quotes:
While qualifying this upfront with the acknowledgment that I'm very undecided on it and I need feedback from the community, I'm net positive on it.
I'm very strongly averse to making the site anything but a pure message board, but quotes are handy for this particular kind of message board. And if I felt they'd have a positive impact on the company's bottom line, I'd probably move forward with this immediately, as the main negatives I'm seeing are negatives to me as an old SysOp more than they are negatives to users of the site. For example, if I'm averse to additional clutter, well, it's easy enough to add a My Settings option to turn off everything quote-related.
I doubt many will really be opposed to adding quotes to the site. None more so than I, anyway. More likely, people will either want them or not care whether or not we have them.
Would we make money from offering quotes? Well, excluding development costs and the initial cost of the software library, if 3 people per month bought Lifetime Subscriptions who wouldn't have otherwise, or 24 buy monthly subscriptions, the answer is "Yes", although we have to keep in mind that we will eventually quit offering new Lifetime Subscriptions.
So I'd really like to hear from free members on this one. Would you subscribe if delayed quotes were part of the package?
