Why is there separate posting comps?

[Richie]

Why is there separate posting comp for staff / regular users? it just seems pointless, they're still getting the same incentive if you just did an overall competition for the forum :S

[Empired]

i thought @Intersocial; said there wasn't a competition specifically for staff, just a scheme to show them how many posts they've made.

[Phil]

In feedback users said that I need to be encouraging staff to post so I am

Also, it's not really a competition as such. I just post the stats for each department and give the top posters of each dept 50 tokens

[MKR&*42]

I can't see anywhere in the main post of staff stats about them getting prizes, it's lit. just to show which departments are doing better than others etc I THINK

[Richie]

In feedback users said that I need to be encouraging staff to post so I am

So there is separate competitions?

[Brad]

but those who are top in the department (not the dept. manager) received 50 tokens.

[scottish]

It should be one competition not multiple tbh.

So if you're giving them tokens for just being amongst the highest, regular should get it too.

[Richie]

It should be one competition not multiple tbh.

So if you're giving them tokens for just being amongst the highest, regular should get it too.

Pretty much this I'm all for activity on the forum, I'm not shooting that down, fair play for trying but there's 141 people in the posting scheme thread, is there really a need for two comps?

So at the moment there's:
Staff posting competition
Staff/Regular user posting competition


@Phil; ?

[Phil]

Soz was on the phone!!

I don't really see the staff one as a competition. The prize is only 50 Tokens to thank them for their efforts. While I hope it will encourage staff to post a bit, it also shows managers who is posting and who isn't and hopefully they're promoting posting within their respective departments. I have absolutely no intention of removing this for staff members and I have no intention for adding a smaller prize to the overall forum statistics.

Scott you mentioned "regular should get it too" and I disagree because if I start dishing out smaller prizes for less efforts amongst the community, people won't be trying to hit the 100

Also @Richie; how did you know there was one for staff?

[Empired]

Why don't you just reward the top 3 posters each week @Phil;
Or reward the top 3 posters as long as they make over, say, 50 posts? That would promote competition among users whereas the current one is just a bit too difficult imo.