Hi,
Currently every one is under the limit set for sending postcards. How about rewarding people an additional slot on their Postcrossing joining anniversary or on their birthday?
Please express your opinions.
Kind regards,
Arjun.
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Hi Arjun,
what exactly do you mean? Giving people the opportunity to send one extra card on their birthday / PC anniversary or permanently increasing the overall number of cards theyāre allowed to send by one on these occasions?
For the first: It wouldnāt really matter to me personally. I donāt think Iāll have time to send an extra postcard on my birthday and I donāt remember the exact date of my PC anniversary, so I would probably miss it anyway.
As for the latter: I wouldnāt want that. Iām happy with the way the number of card slots increases already and donāt think anything needs to be changed.
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I am not inclined to support this idea.
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With 46 potential cards I donāt suffer from the limit anymore - but I think itās a good suggestion. People who stick around one whole year are serious enough about it that they ādeserveā it. Esp. from long-traveling-countries.
Even when many āoldiesā did it not have back then in their early limited times.
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The idea is to allow you to send one extra card beyond your current limit, not to increase your limit permanently.
It would be necessary to implement an anti-cheating mechanism, for the birthday extra card.
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Thanks for clarifying.
In my opinion this makes things unnecessaryly complicated.
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I find it a nice ideaā¦ especially for slow travelling countries. If your cards need 10 or less days, you probably not need many slots, and you gain more slots a lot faster anyway. I have all my slots occupied and I mostly get them freed by expiring cards. Few make it to their destination in less than 50-60 days.
So a birthday slot wouldnt hurt (or an anniversary one)
Im not sure if the algorithm would easily support this idea tho!
The limit of concurrent travelling cards grows over time as you send & receive more card, as it stands today.
Personally I donāt like the idea of awarding slots based purely on users account age. Imagine registering an account years ago, activated it by sending one card, keeping it active by regularly logging in (evade automatic inactive account deletion) and suddenly being granted free slots for just being an āoldā user. It just doesnāt seem fair to all those who actually actively participated in the Postcrossing community. If this were to be implemented, a mechanism is also needed to ensure those who entitle, qualify and deserve such award receive the award slot, which may not be easy.
I conditionally supports the birthday card idea. Unlike account anniversary, birthday is a more special day that deserves celebration. You only have birthday once every year (four for those born on Feb. 29, sorry), so receiving a card around that time is extra exciting. In order to be sent a birthday card, one of your sent card shouldāve been registered (plus account active AND birthday unchanged & visible). So I think awarding a temporary slot 60 days before birthday (valid for a limited time) may be feasible to facilitate a possible birthday card being sent to the individual having a birthday. (Proposed tagline in email: āUse this award slot to send a card and (hopefully) expect a birthday card in return!ā) It must be stated that using this slot is optional and it does not guarantee a birthday card in return.
I am generally interested in this award slot thing. Maybe they can also expand to other events.
cough World Postcard Day cough
I honestly donāt like the birthday idea. I donāt have my birthday public because of privacy reasons. Would I not get the slot if I donāt have my birthday public? If I draw an address and the system tells me itās for someoneās birthdayāthat would both give me a pretty good idea of someoneās birthday and make me feel an obligation to send a birthday card.
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Once Postcrossing allowed people to temporarily increase their slots, I forget the occasion, and it ended up making people angry because when they used the extra slots, they had to wait for those extra cards to arrive before they could send more. (So if they could have five traveling, and they got 5 extra slots temporarily, if they used them they would then have to wait until 6 traveling cards were registered before they could send again.) Because of this, I donāt support temporary slot increases. A permanent extra slot awarded on oneās Postcrossing-versary might be okay, but I donāt think itās necessary.
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The postcards sent using the temporary extra slots could have an invisible flag so that the system didnāt count them for the current real limit.
Plus One.
The extra card to sent might be nice for new postcrossers. If it has a special catagory:
Extra
There is no need to place it in Expire after 60 days. It can stay in Extra for 365 or 366 days or ofcourse disappears from the Sent list when received and registered.
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As a relatively new postcrosser, I have enjoyed the journey. The slow progression of being able to send and receive more postcards. I am almost at 100, finally feeling like a real Postcrosser! I almost get postcards daily, yesterday I got three!! Every few days I get a āhurrayā message.
My opinionāleave it as is, it is perfect 
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Iām always wishing for more slots so Iād be happy to have this or any other way to get some more.
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