WTF: What type of new contest should we have

**Steve** · May 20th, 2011, 12:38 pm

Since we plan on starting fresh with the revamp of WTF , I wanted to get the communities feedback on starting a new Forum Contest. The plan is to make it a social contest to get members involved and productive.

We also plan to give a way $$$ and prizes to the Winners.

What type of contest would you like to see or be a part of?

**BiologyWebmaster** · May 20th, 2011, 9:43 pm

Hello Steve,

I recently participated in a posting competition hosted on another forum, and it really got things going; especially as it was a newly established forum. I won second place and it made me feel really proud to have participated.

I think implementing a similar contest in which members are encouraged to post lots, within a set time frame, would be excellent for getting new active members involved in the community.

The competition that I participated in ran for 1 week, and all post created within that 1 week counted as being tabulated towards judging who the overall winners were. If you were to implement such a contest here on WebTalkForums however, I think you should maybe make it last for at least 1 month.

All posts created within that 1 month, would be used to tabulate who the winners will be. Also establish clear set rules, spam obviously will not count as posts towards winning; and useless posts which offer no thought and/or insight will not count either.

I hope my suggestion helps!

Much Thanks,

BiologyWebmaster

**Sami4u** · May 21st, 2011, 12:55 pm

Hi,

IMO don't do a post contest here is why. From what I have seen in the past you get a lots of posts and when the contest is over people quit posting.

Sami

**CountryBoy** · May 22nd, 2011, 7:56 am

Active referral contest: An active referral is considered as someone who signs up and makes 20+ posts over a month.
Cash is a good prize. The best. You have to speculate to accumulate in this game.

Post contest is no good: gets you lots of dross written by chancers after a quick buck.

**Steve** · May 22nd, 2011, 10:28 am

I like the active member referral and I agree cash will be the best prize. Well get the other prizes together for 2nd and 3rd prize.

**XdaDev** · May 22nd, 2011, 12:32 pm

Marketing contest I think, to better understand the business.

**thepremierhost** · May 23rd, 2011, 11:57 am

Hello Everyone,

I voted for Post Contest. I see a lot of good points on why NOT to have this type of contest but would like to add a new view to this.

I visit another forum who has a Post Contest, BUT, they run their every month. This keeps the post count up, and quality members get a small reward. On that forum, we compete to be in the top 10. Just something to think about

**Steve** · May 24th, 2011, 11:49 pm

We can work on an idea for an every month contest. Let's get those votes in.

**mjwalsh** · May 29th, 2011, 9:13 am

Post count contest will just bring in spammers whether you want to admit it or not. SEO contest is a very specified one because not everone knows how to `seo` and therefor won't be able to participate. The marketing one COULD work but most of the time those only have the most active members participating. Web design again is a very specified market you're opening the contest too.

Best option is active referrer contest with a GOOD prize. It will get everyone involved with little work so people won't be scared off. Let's start with the easy one while we're still kind of slow and dead and then expand to the more involved ones when we're active again. It only makes sense.

**Keitho** · Jul 4th, 2011, 3:15 am

Post counts could bring spammers BUT you could install a modification just for this contest which prevents posts with under a certain amount of words (e.g : 20 words) from being posted Which may not prevent ALL spam but would prevent alot of spam from being made.

**Factrue** · Jul 4th, 2011, 8:43 am

I think Marketing Contest would be good, it will be more informational and useful for the viewers and users.

**SEOvB Services** · Jul 7th, 2011, 1:35 am

I voted for post count contest !

**tsdesigns** · Jul 21st, 2011, 3:31 am

...just me that wants an actual web design competition? It's a web design forum people...come on!

**robinwillson** · Aug 16th, 2011, 1:58 am

The new version allows non Signed In users to browse in an easy and fast way all the photos submitted to the Contest in the 4 different categories: Scenery, Heritage, Travel and Unusual Location while it allows Signed In users to vote 1 photo of a randomly selected group of 10 photos. After Voting on a photo, a new set of 10 will be displayed and this way you can spend as many time as you want enjoying the cool photos submitted by our Panoramio users.