Why is there separate posting comps?

[scottish]

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?

So basically we're having the same competition, but staff members are getting rewarded for less effort, and regular users are being forced to hit high caps (lets be honest 100 is fairly high considering the activity these days) or no rewards

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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?

So basically we're having the same competition, but staff members are getting rewarded for less effort, and regular users are being forced to hit high caps (lets be honest 100 is fairly high considering the activity these days) or no rewards

[Phil]

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.

If I reward the top three they will start getting lower and lower. I don't think we need to lower the limit, it's very possible to hit. I don't think the prize or the limit is the problem at the moment. The only thing making this difficult to hit is the activity on the forum at the moment and for the past while. Only a few months ago it would be rare to get a week where someone didn't hit it so it is very possible to hit so long as the activity is there and people are getting involved.

The reward for staff is only 50 Tokens, it's not like they are being awarded VIP or anything. To even get 1 Week of VIP (which isn't even an option in the sop) from this they'll need to be top for 20 Weeks

[Richie]

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?

1) Everyone contributes to the forum, everyone should be rewarded for their effort.
2) What makes this any different to the staff competition?
3) You posted it publicly

[Phil]

1) Everyone contributes to the forum, everyone's efforts should be rewarded.
2) What makes this any different to the staff competition?
3) You posted it publicly

1. They are.
2. Staff one isn't a competition.
3. No I didn't, I just selected the wrong thing on the drop down menu I haven't even done the one for this week yet

[scottish]

1. They are.
2. Staff one isn't a competition.
3. No I didn't, I just selected the wrong thing on the drop down menu I haven't even done the one for this week yet

If you're rewarding the top posters of each department, then it is a competition

[Phil]

Well if I don't it's just pointless doing it

[Empired]

Well if I don't it's just pointless doing it

i think that's what they're trying to say

[scottish]

So whether the intention was for it being a competition or not, it's a competition now

[Phil]

i think that's what they're trying to say

They're trying to say it's unfair I believe

[Richie]

1. They are.
2. Staff one isn't a competition.
3. No I didn't, I just selected the wrong thing on the drop down menu I haven't even done the one for this week yet

So how does it work? which people in the staff posting statistics receive tokens? Is vip offered to winners / any other incentives?


I don't know what tokens are / how to earn them neway so idc bout that its just the principal behind it, there's no need to have separate competitions or whatever you want to call it even if it is just for 50tokens, everyone has an equal chance of becoming one of the top 3 posters.