Membership With OpEd News
Benefactor 1 mos/$376.07, 3 mos/$899.07, 6 mos/$1600.07, 12 mos/$2500.07, Lifetime/$9999.07 |
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A Benefactor is the highest level of membership on OpEdNews. You get the highest recognition on the Top Contributors page and you'll have input into some OpEdNews Decision Discussions. And acknowledgement as sponsor on Rob Kall bottom up Radio Shows/podcasts for the first two years of your membership. This is a level for our largest contributors. Of course, you are not required to be listed or mentioned on the radio show. Ie., you can be anonymous or public, as you like.
Benefits and Features
Expedited Queue Attention
When a member submits an article, it goes in the queue to be reviewed by the OpEd News editors. This benfit means that your articles will be clearly marked as requiring expedited approval. And handled with top priority.
Input into some OpEd News Decision Discussions
Members at this level may be consulted when important decisions need to be made about the operation of the website, and/or it's future direction.
Custom Layout of Members Page
With this benefit, you have the ability to choose from a number of layouts for your members page. Since your members page lists all content submitted including article, comments, diaries, polls, etc, these layouts allow your members page to become a special customized page for you.
Choose Multiple Image Sizes from commonsSearch
When searching for an image to use in an article, you will have your choice of several different sizes on images to use. From 150px to 800px.
Download Your Content from OpEd News
If you have submitted articles to OpEd News, you can have them all assembled into a document for you to download. The document will be complete with a table of contents.
You can choose all of your articles, or choose from a selection of articles you have submitted. In this way, you can create multiple documents, if you choose. Currently, images are not included.
Larger Images Accepted
With this benefit, you have the ability to use larger images for your article submissions. The regular user is limited to images that are less than 350 K, but you get double the image size and more with this benefit.
Automatically see articles as one page
Articles longer than one page have a set of links you need to click to go to the next page. With this benefit, all articles will appear as one long page.
Expanded Comment Color Options
When regular users enters a comment, they have a quite limited number of colors they can use for text and background. With this benefit, you have a greatly expanded range of colors to choose from.
View Fans of All Members
Readers may choose to "fan" authors on OpEd News, meaning they get an email, every time that author submits content.
With this benefit, you will be able to see the fans of other members, when you go to their members' page.
Add your links to articles, audio/video interviews and talks to Members page
On your Members Page, you can show a list of your links to your articles, audio/video interviews and talks that you have done anywhere on the Internet.
Full Access to Statistics for anyone, & Main Site Most Popular Stats
In addition to being able to see YOUR stats on your archive page, you will be able to see page views of other writers, on their archive pages.
You will be able to see the stats on popularity pages as the advocate membership plan allows. .
In addition to seeing stats on archive and popularity pages, you will be able to see the number of page views on the articles, diaries and polls themselves. That's easier.
See the Advocate membership plan stats option for more details.
Basic Access to Statistics for yourself and Main Site Most Popular Stats
You will be able to see how many people have viewed your content on OpEd News. On your personal members page, all articles, etc. will be shown with a number representing page views.
When you log in and go to your Profile, all articles and other content will be shown with the same page-view count.
When you view the most popular pages for the site, you will see the actually numbers, not just the rankings, for all content, not just yours.
You cannot see other people's stats. You cannot see page views on the articles themselves. That's the next level option.
Commenting beyond usual time limit plus a higher character limit
Commenting on articles is cut off two weeks after the article is first published. With this benefit, you can continue to comment on any article without any time limits.
Also the limit for the number of characters in your comment is removed.
You can Totally turn off all advertisements
This Membership benefit allows you to choose whether or not you want to see advertisements on article pages.
You can Turn off Ads Below the Banners
This Membership benefit allows you to choose whether or not you want to see advertisements on article pages (below the main banners at the top of the page.)
A Larger Bio Than Regular Users
Regular users are limited to a bio that contains only a few words. You will be able to create a bio which is much longer. (The bio appears on every submission you post to the website.)
Your Own Customized URL (Page Address)
As a member, you have your own members page. This page is usually located at https://www.opednews.com/authors/authorX.html where the X is your member number.
That may be difficult to remember when sharing your page address. Thus, you will have a customized page address similar to https://www.opednews.com/johndoe where 'johndoe' is a name you can choose, in your Preferences. (And change whenever you like.)
View Your Fans
Wherever your membername appears on OpEd News, such as on a comment or as the author of an article, readers may choose to "fan" you, meaning they get an email, every time you submit content.
With this benefit, you will be able to see how many people have become your fan on OpEdNews. On your personal members page, you will have a section for Fans where you can view a list of all your fans (and be able to visit their members pages).
10,000 Characters Allowed in Your Comments
You can enter a much larger number of characters in your comments.
6,000 Characters Allowed in Your Comments
You can enter a much larger number of characters in your comments.
4,000 Characters Allowed in Your Comments
You can enter double the number of characters when you enter comments.
Download Any Series
You can choose any series from the Series page and download the collection of articles in the Series into a single file on youe computer
Editing of articles allowed beyond usual time limit for 3 days
Modifying an article after publication is usually limited to 24 hours after the article is first published. With this benefit, you can continue to edit your article for 3 days.
Editing of articles allowed up to 5 days
Modifying an article after publication is usually limited to 24 hours after the article is first published. With this benefit, you can continue to edit your article for 5 days.
Longer Content in Your Diaries
With this benefit, your diaries can be longer than a regular diary.
See Number of Page Views on Series and Series Pages
When viewing the table of contents for Series or any of the pages in a Series, you will be able to see the number of page views (hits) the page (or whole series) has.
Show The Actual Message in the Notification Email
When you get an email notifying you that you have a message in the Message Center, normally that's all it says. With this benefit, the email says who the message is sent from. And contains the actual message text that was sent to you. Plus, a link so you can directly reply.
Show Who Message is From
When you get an email notifying you that you have a message in the Message Center, normally that's all it says. With this benefit, the email says who the message is sent from.
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Benefactor 1 mos/$376.07, 3 mos/$899.07, 6 mos/$1600.07, 12 mos/$2500.07, Lifetime/$9999.07 |