Free Memberships:
Everyone who joins this site is entitled to a free membership. The features and conditions of that membership are:
1. Ads will be show at the top and on the right of every page.
2. You cannot add pictures to your poems or a face image to your author page. (however a face image, avatar, will show up on comments.)
3. You can post up to two poems per day, however any more than that require you to post 4 comments per additional poem you want to post.
4. You can use the provided backgrounds to decorate your page.
5. You can read and comment on others work and receive comments on yours.
6. You can feature your poems in the featured box.
7. You can enter and host contests.
8. You can take free classes .
9. You can join groups.
10. You can post to the forum board.
Silver Memberships:
1. Have all the features of the free membship as well as:
2. You can add one picture to your poems.
3. You can add a face image that will be displayed by your name in comments and on your author page.
4. There are no ads on any of the pages.
5. There are no comment requirements to post poems.
6. If you have an automatic pay monthly subscription you will receive 30 bonus points each month that your subscription renews.
7. Your username will be in bold.
8. And you will have a silver badge that shows on your comments and author page showing that you support the site as a silver member.
9. You can create and organize your poems into lists.
10. You can create and join groups.
11. You can add music to your author page and poems.
12. If you are familiar with HTML you can edit your author page using HTML code for additional pictures and such.
* note if you want to add pictures to your profile but do not now how to use HTML code, you can upload pictures to www.photobucket.com and generate a HTML code to put in your profile.
Gold Memberships:
1. Include all the features of the Silver and Free memberships as well as:
3. Using rich text HTML editor for poems and comments to change the color, font and size as well as highlight text.
4. Advanced settings allow you to format your author page anyway you like.
5. Adding multiple picture and secondary images.
6. You can see who is viewing your poetry.
7. You can be cloaked.
8. Your name will stay in the online list unless you have cloaked yourself.
9. Poems featured in the featured box are highlighted.
10.For automatic monthly paid memberships you receive 75 bonus points every month that your subscription renews.
11. You can upload and use custom backgrounds to your poems and author page.
A gold badge will be displayed by your username in comments and posts and on your author page showing that you support the site as a gold member.
12. You have the option of making your contest not anonymous.
13. Can add chat to their author pages under advanced author page settings.
With all memberships you can use your allpoetry username and password to have access to all of the affiliate sites.
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**When purchasing a membership there are several options for payment and subscription rates.
You can purchase a Silver or Gold membership on an automatic paid membership, or you can do one time payments for three months, six months, one year, and lifetime memberships. To get to the one time payment options click on the purchase link for the membership you want then on the second page click on one time payment options.
Payments can be made by check or money order a mailing address will be provided, Credit Cards and Paypal are also accepted.
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