Why is there separate posting comps?

[Phil]

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

This is literally what I post after the main post:

Congratulations to the following who have won 50 Tokens for being at the top of their Departments:

Ripieno - Habbox Live, Articles
Wubing - Habbox Help Desk, Values Staff
mdport. - Forum Moderation
bikini - Content, Events
Intersocial - Graphics, Competitions

[scottish]

So give top 10 people 50 tokens each

Sorted.

[Phil]

Are you lot actually stressing over 50 tokens or are you trying to get up post count for next week?

[Richie]

Are you lot actually stressing over 50 tokens or are you trying to get up post count for next week?

bit of both lol jk

Again, I don't know what tokens are / how to earn them neway so idc bout that its just the principle 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.

[scottish]

I'm with @Richie; it's the principle not the reward

[Brad]

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

I don't think anyone is forcing you to post...

[Empired]

I don't think anyone is forcing you to post...

I think he means if staff want to earn a prize it's easy for them to get, but if a user wants to win a prize for doing the same thing they have to work bloody hard.

it's like telling one person to jump for £10 and another person to run a half marathon for £10

[Phil]

Nah ye just want a handy way to get to 100, this is a decoy

No but seriously, I don't currently intend to do that because of what I said earlier: "if I start dishing out smaller prizes for less efforts amongst the community, people won't be trying to hit the 100"

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I think he means if staff want to earn a prize it's easy for them to get, but if a user wants to win a prize for doing the same thing they have to work bloody hard.

it's like telling one person to jump for £10 and another person to run a half marathon for £10

No it's not? The rewards are completely different.

[Brad]

I think he means if staff want to earn a prize it's easy for them to get, but if a user wants to win a prize for doing the same thing they have to work bloody hard.

it's like telling one person to jump for £10 and another person to run a half marathon for £10

actually no. That comparison doesn't make sense to the current issue.

[scottish]

I don't think anyone is forcing you to post...

I never said we were? Nowhere in that post does it state we are being forced, it said if we want a reward we're forced to hit a high cap.

In order to achieve a reward, you're being forced to hit a fairly high cap, where as staff can do whatever as long as they beat the other member and could end up with 8 posts in a week and get rewarded for it, then people hitting 98 posts and get 0.