Posting ranks

[Donald Duck]

Hey,

I have an idea to make the forum active, posting ranks, when an user gets like 100 posts he get an new rank and so can it up and up, the posts can be enterd by admins, I think Pokémon names are good ranks.

Donald Duck

[Flyfunner]

Personally I dont like this idea because some people would see it as a competition and start spamming like crazy. Its not a bad idea, but it has some bad side effects in my opinion

[christos21]

I agree with flyfunner.I have seen this in a greek forum and a single guy did 822 posts in 6 months(most of them including spam).I have done some suggestions to the president about the increase of activity.I could also post them here if necessary but they're way too long...

[Yellow Rayquaza]

In my opinion even short posts and "half-spam" are welcome at the moment, because this forum seriously needs some activity.

[Flyfunner]

its more something like "this forum needs seriously more active users" instead of "this forum seriously needs some more activity"
Posting Ranks in my opinion would only lead to more posts, but nothing productive would follow up after that.
We can try, but I dont think that it will actually change anything.

[Yellow Rayquaza]

Posting Ranks in my opinion would only lead to more posts, but nothing productive would follow up after that.

Are you serious? More new posts make the forum attractive for people. Not many people want to join a forum that is not active. There are registered people that come sometimes here but see "oh nothing has happened" and then they don't post and come again after a few months and this keeps happening until they give up on the forum.
Of course "good" posts are better. But when there are no posts, it is more important to get some posts. You can't be so picky in this situation.
Also, I support activating post count for the Wi-Fi forums. (Some people would get their postcount from 0 => 20 or so. Even that motivates some people. People are different... believe me.)

This concept is way too good to let it die.

[LassTiara]

Posting Ranks in my opinion would only lead to more posts, but nothing productive would follow up after that.

Are you serious? More new posts make the forum attractive for people. Not many people want to join a forum that is not active. There are registered people that come sometimes here but see "oh nothing has happened" and then they don't post and come again after a few months and this keeps happening until they give up on the forum.
Of course "good" posts are better. But when there are no posts, it is more important to get some posts. You can't be so picky in this situation.
Also, I support activating post count for the Wi-Fi forums. (Some people would get their postcount from 0 => 20 or so. Even that motivates some people. People are different... believe me.)

This concept is way too good to let it die.

Even tho Ray makes couple good points, worst of them is to fill the forum with spams because "that's how we get activity". Flyfunner has made very good clear up why this way would not be effective, and I would rather see forum less active than active with spamposts. We are not trying to create another forum filled with spams. It does make difference if the forum is just filled with spams or with actual conversations.

If we don't have active users, that means we are doing something wrong, calling in all the spammers is not a solution to anything, only solution is to come up with something actually interesting. Forum might get just a bit more active, which we cannot know, and if it works, it would not be productive as Flyfunner pointed out.
Now let me ask this, what if idea was tried out and UEPC would start filling up with spams, what would those actually interested people think about forum that is already filling up with spamposts?
And to make a note, I don't think just giving some posting ranks would actually make people wanna start using UEPC aside their national forums. Maybe 3 out of 10 would actually be interested about them.

I do agree that maybe it would be good to support postcount on wi-fi forums, but I'm still not agreeing with the post count title issue. It would be totally pointless. Flyfunner and christos21 made perfectly good points regarding this, so unless someone comes up with actually good reasons, I think this topic is dealt for now. Idea is not bad but neither productive nor functional at this point. We could see this again, after we get some active users.

[H-con]

(Honestly admitting I haven't been very active here, though I guess that has it's explanations...)

Yeah, I could very well like a few discussions, because I don't feel people really take what I say so seriously on other forums. Would be nice to actually have an actual discussion revolving a topic. I might have some "radical" thoughts, at least in a pokémon percpective, though that's what starts a debate, is it not?

Then again,it would be pretty boring if I were talking to a brick wall.

[Nicklaskm]

okay nice idea but..no good idea