Are incentives on online forums a good idea?

.Matt

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• May 26, 2005

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I like the idea of earning "coffee"(?), and been able to exchange that for gifts/rewards. Most of the time, all you can do is exchange points for cash. It's a nice idea

 

Killmur

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• May 26, 2005

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Sounds interesting. Hope it works out the way you want it to.

 

Redneck

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• May 26, 2005

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cool, i like the skin u use on the forums looks awesome!

 

StudioWorks

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• May 26, 2005

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Good looking skin

Good luck.

 

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ystoredesign

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• May 28, 2005

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Thank you for all your reviews!

What do you think about coffee and vita cents? Are 25 cents for a new topic and 10 cents for every reply enough to get useful gifts from our stores?

 

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ystoredesign

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• Jun 3, 2005

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Some people think these 25 cents for a new topic and 10 cents for replies are a kind of salary. Not at all! This is just an easy way to get discounts for the products we sell in our stores. The more often you talk the larger is your discount.

 

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unknowngiver

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• Jun 3, 2005

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thts awesome :D n nice website 2

 

Jon_

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• Jun 3, 2005

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Yeah, great thinking. Site looks great too. :D

 

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ystoredesign

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• Jun 16, 2005

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To avoid spam messages we recently set up a new rule – only registered users can post in www.CoffeeFun.com.
We have no spam for a week or two and our members approved of this idea.
I would like to know the opinions of other forum owners and members. Do you find it useful?

 

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ystoredesign

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• Jul 21, 2005

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Just a few words to sum up the discussion.

It’s been about a month or two since we started this strategy and the results are very good. We saw many forums using incentives which could be redeemed for goods or small gifts. Most people say these 10 or 15 cents will not make them richer, but they feel richer and they like friendly chat and try to post more.

We were glad to receive any your comments and opinions and will be happy to know more from you in future You are welcome to our forums www.CoffeeFun.com and www.VitaTalk.com !

 

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Wildchild22

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• Jul 21, 2005

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hey
firstly, i really like the layout for the board

Incentives are a good idea, if you can control people sending spam, eg a forum i helped with, had an arcade, and you could only play the games after so many posts, however people went on the forums making posts like "i agree", "yes", "lol" and totally useless posts

 

Zeeble

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• Jul 21, 2005

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ystoredesign said:

Thank you for all your reviews!

What do you think about coffee and vita cents? Are 25 cents for a new topic and 10 cents for every reply enough to get useful gifts from our stores?

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wow, you will go bankrupt in no time at all. imagine 300 posts in one day, you will be paying over $30 just for that. Do you plan to change that at some other point?

 

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admans

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• Jul 21, 2005

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Gotta tell u...Nice site and Nice atmosphere...It will work ...the Coffee Cents Thingy will be a hit from the way im seeing the posting in ur forums.

 

Zeeble

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• Jul 21, 2005

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The question that you need to ask yourself, is will the revenues from the site cover the costs? So if you are paying out $30 per day on incentives will it be covered?

 

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dweeb

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• Jul 21, 2005

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i think the coffee cents thingy is a good idea. everybody gets attracted to free stuff but what you should start fearing is the way people might abuse your system.

 

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ystoredesign

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• Jul 21, 2005

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Wildchild22 said:

hey
firstly, i really like the layout for the board

Incentives are a good idea, if you can control people sending spam, eg a forum i helped with, had an arcade, and you could only play the games after so many posts, however people went on the forums making posts like "i agree", "yes", "lol" and totally useless posts

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When we have 300 posts a day, we will have a good ROI

admans said:

Gotta tell u...Nice site and Nice atmosphere...It will work ...the Coffee Cents Thingy will be a hit from the way im seeing the posting in ur forums.

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Thank you! This is what we really wanted to create - a nice friendly atmosphere encouraging people to post more

 

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TeviH

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• Jul 21, 2005

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How do you set it up that people get $cents for posting? I think that's a great idea, as the forum I've recently started is slow to take off. (I'm using phpbb, btw)

link to forum: AnimWatch

 

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ystoredesign

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• Jul 21, 2005

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TeviH said:

How do you set it up that people get $cents for posting? [/URL]

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You can do it with the help of mods. Look here - http://www.phpbb.com/mods/

 

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TeviH

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• Jul 22, 2005

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ystoredesign said:

You can do it with the help of mods. Look here - http://www.phpbb.com/mods/

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Yea, sorry - I mean which mods? I looked up incentives, incentive and found none... do you know of any specific ones?