Forum Moderators: rogerd
As for new member signups, the easiest reward is the fabulous forum content they'll be able to access. You could also give members access to private discussion areas that non-members can't reach ... a la WebmasterWorld Supporters Forum.
Beyond that, what about small prizes for the 50th, 100th, 500th new member to join?
If you provide benefits, though, be prepared for people to "game" the system. They may churn out lots of short posts, or get their buddies to rate their threads well... You can more or less count on a few people taking shortcuts whatever measures you use.
There is already levels. Like Junior Member, Preferred member and so on.
***when someone hits a threshold of number of posts, or number of quality posts, they jump to another membership level.***
Yes this already happens
***Benefits could include an expanded profile, more storage space, bigger avatar (ugh), a private forum, not to mention the esteem of one's peers. ***
That is just plain useless. I post on many boards and personally I could care less about a expaned progile, more storage space, bigger avatar.
***If you provide benefits, though, be prepared for people to "game" the system. They may churn out lots of short posts, or get their buddies to rate their threads well... ***
Not is I'm counting post. I'm sure I could set up a something (as phpbb is written in PHP which is easy to edit and add features)
***You can more or less count on a few people taking shortcuts whatever measures you use. ***
Hence the monitoring....also moderators monitoring.
That is just plain useless. I post on many boards and personally I could care less about a expaned progile, more storage space, bigger avatar.
Then perhaps you could develop a useful rewards system based on what you personally do care about.
Just an idea?
