Ideas on how to get members more involved

[costargh]

Currently about half of all members (around 400) have never posted and aprox 75% of people have less than posts.

I think it is in the best interests of the site if we can explore some ways to get members more involved with the forums.

So does anyone have any ideas on how to entice these lurkers out of the woods?

[droodles]

get them to f'ing post more than 20 posts before they are allowed access to any notes, they are just free-loading sans contribution. I see retards who make quick accounts like 123456 so they can just download the notes.

[enwiabe]

I'm not too fussed, to be honest. It's to help all people. Making people post is a tax on their time. So long as they're benefiting, that's fine with me. A community should not be forced. It will come, we're still growing. Around mid-years we'll get a massive influx, don't worry. If we're not up to a sizeable activity by the end of the year I will pursue more rigorous means of attracting active members.

[Collin Li]

I condone enwiabe's viewpoint.

[costargh]

I don't endorse any form of mandatory posting. Just incentives. But I can't think of anything that would work well. Ultimately the community will benefit more when there are more members contributing.

I condone enwiabe's viewpoint.

Reasons?

[cara.mel]

I hate things being limited by # of posts. In my opinion the 50 posts to karma is too high, should be time based (maybe 1 week?) instead.

There is nothing wrong with lurking. If this site didn't force registrations, there'd be a much greater % of people posting

[enwiabe]

That would be mandatory, costargh. Making people post to get the notes means MANDATORY posting before receipt of notes access. That's not something I want to puruse.

[enwiabe]

I hate things being limited by # of posts. In my opinion the 50 posts to karma is too high, should be time based (maybe 1 week?) instead.

There is nothing wrong with lurking. If this site didn't force registrations, there'd be a much greater % of people posting

50 posts limit is because karma is a privilege. Only active members of the community should be able to rate others. It prevents people getting their friends from signing up and karma bashing, as well as keeping the ratings being given by members who have interacted in the community and are experienced contributors.

[costargh]

When did I say that people should have to post to access the notes?

[enwiabe]

... Fair enough! I think I managed to confuse you with droodles. Haha. My apologies.

[costargh]

... Fair enough! I think I managed to confuse you with droodles. Haha. My apologies.

Lol thats alright. I kinda got confused there and had to read my own posts before reconfirming I made no such statement.
Also though, more active members would mean more potential for advertising revenue wouldn't it? So from a financial perspective, offering some form of "incentive" could be financially rewarding.

I'm thinking maybe access to editing name thingo on the side of posts... like if you make 100 posts you can change your name from "hero member" to "VCE ELITE???" LMAO I HAVE NO F-N IDEA... that sounds shit

[enwiabe]

Heh. I'd been meaning to redo those stupid ranks. "Hero Member" sounds so lame. But yes, I do see what you mean and I think that that is a good idea. However, custom user titles would only be an incentive to those who are already a part of the community. The other problem with that is that it will encourage spam posts in order to get to the required post-level. I don't know what I could offer for extra posts that would be fair. More suggestions would be appreciated.

[droodles]

... Fair enough! I think I managed to confuse you with droodles. Haha. My apologies.

lol enwaffle

[cara.mel]

I hate things being limited by # of posts. In my opinion the 50 posts to karma is too high, should be time based (maybe 1 week?) instead.

There is nothing wrong with lurking. If this site didn't force registrations, there'd be a much greater % of people posting

50 posts limit is because karma is a privilege. Only active members of the community should be able to rate others. It prevents people getting their friends from signing up and karma bashing, as well as keeping the ratings being given by members who have interacted in the community and are experienced contributors.

Posting more does not correlate to being an active member of the forum , nor does it mean you appreciate less someone else's help/viewpoint

[enwiabe]

Posting more does correlate to being an active member. That's kind of self-evident. You've also completely disregarded my other point about it being a privilege (a reward, if you will) for posting + a deterrent to karma bashing.