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I firmly believe it is impossible to make more than 100 really solid posts in a week. 9/10 people who are breaking that limit are just posting worthless contributions as rapidly as they possibly can.
Preferably I'd like to just pay people a fair price based on their rank which would cut down on forum spam tremendously this could upset a lot of participants though. If anyone has some suggestions on how pricing should work for that scheme I'm all ears.
I personally dont see a problem with the 100 posts limit, idk. I dont think I will ever go higher and even if, it wont be by much. I am with PrimeDice since I could join.
5 month? 6 month? I dont even remember. I looked it up december 18th was my first payment.
IMHO you should cut members. I understand you want people who post solid and contribute to the board.
You also dont want spammers, so my first cause of action would be to ban those from the campaign that have been banned for spamming. Permanently. Im pretty confident that the mods would help you out with a monthly updated list.
Next would be to check a few people every term exhaustively. Open the thread they replied to. Does the post make sense in the context? Does it "help" the thread? Is it constructive or has the very same answer allready been give thrice? Do they rather post again or do they edit their posts? If you dont like what you see, put them on a warning list and review again next period. If they do not behave any better, bye bye. Id also recommend that you highlight the people you are happy with.
You could also discourage certain sections of the board, e.g. no payment for posts in off-topic, games and rounds, etc. While people legitemitely post in these sections there should not be much traffic.
In the long rong Id aim for a limit for each rank that can participate.
Some sort of "tryout" system might also make sense. If you are new with the campaign you will only get half the rates. This will encurage loyalty so you dont have to check to many people.
Id also like to see weekly payments, this makes you more flexible towards other sig deals as well as the BTC price. This way the 100 posts per week limit makes more sense. Its not like the month has a fixed amount of weeks. As I posted earlier the current period would have 4 weeks + 2 days. Soo is the limit 400 posts, because 4 full weeks? 428 posts, because 4,28 weeks or 500 posts because 100 per week or part thereof?
Sounds like a fulltime job now and you probably have enough stuff on your plate allready. Maybe its worth to hire someone for this?
I dont know. Id like this to work without promoting spam, but I see so many people with a PM signature that just post crap. I dont want to "rat" anyone out, but I was actually considering if its ok to make a thread where Id bet which person with a PM sig would be banned next for spamming.
I read posts like these and I understand why he does it:
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Actually in my case it is exactly that. I've discovered recently that 99% of the people with "PRIMEDICE" ads in their sig don't know what they are talking about and fill this forum with necro posts and nonsense. Therefore, I've instituted a policy of clicking the "ignore" link as soon as I see that someone has a "PRIMEDICE" ad. Therefore, I can't see your posts, and I therefore don't read them. I only see them if someone else quotes them in a response.
If I see anything in those response quotes that indicates that the "PRIMEDICE" advertiser is part of the 1% that has anything intelligent or useful to say, then I go back and "unignore" them. So far, I haven't seen anything you've said that has made me feel like I should "unignore" you.
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Maybe a fixed price as has allready been suggested is a solution?
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PrimeDice isnt it? Shouldnt the posts also be of prime quality?
By limiting to 100 posts per week you dont ensure the quality of the posts you pay for.
Final suggestion: take all the suggestions you get here and think about what you want for a few days. The lastest changes have been a bit bumpy. Id rather have a clear change.