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01-09-2008, 10:26 AM
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|  Contests What kind of contests do you guys do on your forums. Generally we do like a if you make the nth post in a thread you get xxx. You guys have any other things you do?  | |
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01-09-2008, 11:43 AM
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Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 483   | All of the contest I have tried on my general forum have failed miserably. we tried a design a T-Shirt contest and the winner was to get the first T-Shirt printed and sent to them, we tried a referral contest where the prize was a game of the winner choice and platform delivered to them. Maybe it's my inability to successfully promote outside the community, but both were abandoned due to a lack of interest. | ||||
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01-09-2008, 11:48 AM
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| if you have enough members you should try the nth poster thing. all they have to do is post so they are more likely to participate | |
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01-09-2008, 11:53 AM
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Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 483 | What type of prizes do you offer for such a contest? | ||||
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01-09-2008, 12:18 PM
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| well we support Free to Air Satellite receivers so we offer a receiver. Sometimes one of the forum sponsors will donate it. Approx value is like $150. This is the first one we did. FREE Visionsat IV200 - ABA DSS - Free to Air Satellite TV Community you gotta make it something that is cool to win for your members | |
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01-09-2008, 01:10 PM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,321 Location: Delaware  Recent Blog: French say they need biggest condoms  | How about 6th poster in this thread gets a 20" plasma for their bedroom? | ||||
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01-09-2008, 01:12 PM
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Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 483 | Too open to interpretation. I could say that I'm the 6th poster as this is the sixth reply, or we could say that you're the third poster as only three individuals have posted here. Either way, you lose. | ||||
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01-09-2008, 11:04 PM
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01-10-2008, 04:08 AM
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| well i just go by the # associated with the post and limit the # of posts they can have, like 3 posts max or something. maybe we'll try it here next month | |
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01-10-2008, 05:13 PM
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Title: Super Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,280 Location: Gainesville, FL Recent Blog: UFC 91 PPV Buys
| I would make rules for it if you're going to give away big prizes that state the post has to be a certain length and regarding the forum niche. That way not only are people posting but it's on topic and quality stuff. | ||||
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