TheDoctor - 2:30 pm on May 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Seems to me that this is a strategy for paying out for low-quality posts - and therefore a low-quality forum.

Surely the way to build a forum is to attract people who want to say something to the readers (including the lurkers) and, conversely, attract those who want to read what has already been posted. I wouldn't have thought you'd get these by a mass of posts that were made purely for financial rewards.