StarSmoke:
But by upgrading that person can then see everyone's special content and not just the person they upgraded for? So someone could post tons of great stuff but never earn anything from it because their name wasn't mentioned when the upgrade happened? I'm just making sure I understand.
That's more-or-less right, yes.
The text on the images on the commissions page is a little small so I'll transcribe it here for anyone who can't make it out:
'The table below shows the monthly effect of your premium content - the number of times the upgrades page has been viewed, the number of upgrades then made and the resulting earnings. It also shows payments made to your PayPal account, providing the transaction ID. The table is updated daily.'
'This page shows the premium content that members have clicked on, redirecting them to the upgrades page. It also shows any content that has then prompted them to upgrade.'
Basically it's not just "I'm upgrading and mentioning someone's name manually", when they click on premium content it'll prompt them to upgrade. If they do so, it'll automatically notify FF that the member has upgraded, and whose content they clicked on which prompted them to upgrade - which then will grant a commission to that member.
Or to phrase it differently, to get commission from someone, they have to click on your premium content specifically and then upgrade when it prompts them. If they've upgraded from a prompt from someone else, or if they've just upgraded independently, those do not give you commission.
As such one may wish to factor in exactly how much premium content they post, and which premium content one has that people have upgraded specifically to see.
Also premium content will remain premium for 3 months after uploading it, before reverting to ordinary content.
This is all in the trial stages of course, so we're looking for feedback on it all.