Pros/Cons of offering rewards.

[di3f00l]

I'm pretty sure I'm going to be offering rewards on my site for users through the SMFShop function. People will make points thru posting & making guides, and they can use that for different stuff in the game (which costs me real money). The only thing I'm debating is that after I get like my first 15000-20000 posts, I won't be able to support this feature. Well, until I get an affiliate or something like that. I'm scared that once I take that away I'll be doing worse than I would have if I never introduced it. I'm starting from 0 members btw, its not like there will have been a time before this feature. It will be there then gone. If that makes sense?

[rd]

I'm pretty sure I'm going to be offering rewards on my site for users through the SMFShop function. People will make points thru posting & making guides, and they can use that for different stuff in the game (which costs me real money). The only thing I'm debating is that after I get like my first 15000-20000 posts, I won't be able to support this feature. Well, until I get an affiliate or something like that. I'm scared that once I take that away I'll be doing worse than I would have if I never introduced it. I'm starting from 0 members btw, its not like there will have been a time before this feature. It will be there then gone. If that makes sense?

The first thing you should be worrying about is getting members and posts... It's harder said then done, at least for some people.

[di3f00l]

The first thing you should be worrying about is getting members and posts... It's harder said then done, at least for some people.

Which is why I was thinking of using this. $75 could get me like.. 15000-20000 posts.

[rd]

The first thing you should be worrying about is getting members and posts... It's harder said then done, at least for some people.

Which is why I was thinking of using this. $75 could get me like.. 15000-20000 posts.

What I meant was that if you really think so then you should try it first before thinking about giving more.

[di3f00l]

But what I'm asking is will this hurt me more later on than help?

[trebul]

Let me see if I understand correctly you won't be giving away any reward until you hit 15,000 posts?

That could potentially be a very, very long time. I doubt people would be interested since that is a huge milestone to reach.

[di3f00l]

Let me see if I understand correctly you won't be giving away any reward until you hit 15,000 posts?

That could potentially be a very, very long time. I doubt people would be interested since that is a huge milestone to reach.

No my funds will only last till then.

[trebul]

In that case I don't think it would hurt having the rewards. You say it is going to be based on post count, that could lead to a lot of single word responses.

[di3f00l]

In that case I don't think it would hurt having the rewards. You say it is going to be based on post count, that could lead to a lot of single word responses.

That's true.. :/

[trebul]

I was thinking more about this and what if you have sort of a competition for people to write guides for the game.

For a certain time period you could select a topic about the game and have people write a guide related to that part of the game. At the end you could select the best / most informative and send them a reward. Then repeat for another part of the game.

[di3f00l]

I was thinking more about this and what if you have sort of a competition for people to write guides for the game.

For a certain time period you could select a topic about the game and have people write a guide related to that part of the game. At the end you could select the best / most informative and send them a reward. Then repeat for another part of the game.

Very good idea once I get members. Currently I'm planning on offering them like 250-1000 points depending on how good the guide is, but yeah once I get a good number of members, I can change that into a weekly event and the winner gets like a few thousand points. Thanks for the suggestion That will really help to make the guide 'table of contents' full in all areas rather than just the stuff everyone knows about.

[Siirist]

In that case I don't think it would hurt having the rewards. You say it is going to be based on post count, that could lead to a lot of single word responses.

If I remember right, SMF ver 2.0 RC3 has a setting or there is a Mod that sets a minimum number of words in a post.

Wish I could remember.

Take Care,
Cloud

[Liam.]

In that case I don't think it would hurt having the rewards. You say it is going to be based on post count, that could lead to a lot of single word responses.

If I remember right, SMF ver 2.0 RC3 has a setting or there is a Mod that sets a minimum number of words in a post.

Wish I could remember.

Take Care,
Cloud

It's as a mod, not a core feature

But in my opinion, if offering rewards gets your users 'into it', how will they get active on your site in the first place?

[Siirist]

*nods in agreement (because we have one forum {www.asanctuary.net/yoursanctuary} that touches an area that no one wants to talk about assault and abuse)

This same forum ALSO has another side that is JUST for those that know or care about survivors of abuse or assault, so they can join.

Those that don't want to register are welcomed to just browse through the 4 public boards that have 48 resource topics .

Yet there isn't an explaination why people are not flocking over to RollerDerbyForum.org

Cloud

[Siirist]

Anyone have thoughts or ideas?

Cloud