User Forum Achievements/Rewards

Xiroas at 21h13

Mar

2009

I have seen forums out there that are PHPBB3 and Invision that have an achievements/rewards MOD installed, and I really think it's cool to provide an incentive for people to post and achieve things as well; not only does it give back to the community, but the poster as well.

Say if a person posts 1000 times, they earn the "Spammer" achievement.

Or if they Private Message 100 people, they earn the "Spy!" achievement.

Customizing/creating your own achievements would be nice too, such as setting up variables and/or choosing/uploading the picture for it, setting points for it, have that some how play into a cash mod and so on, the possibilities are endless.

1 Splytte, on 10/03/2009 at 21h41

Is this equal to a rank system? Confused

-=~Splytte~=-

2 Rok, on 10/03/2009 at 22h12

This is a brilliant idea. I voted Yes.

3 Xiroas, on 10/03/2009 at 22h32

Splytte wrote:Is this equal to a rank system?

-=~Splytte~=-

No, you know like Xbox Live achievements?

Except for forum things, like posting a certain amount, or viewing a certain amount of topics and such.

4 Xiroas, on 12/03/2009 at 04h57

Does anyone have the name of the mod that does this for PHP/Invision forms, I remember seeing it, but I forgot the name of it.

5 thunderboyx, on 12/03/2009 at 05h00

You guys do know that this is possible through Personalized profiles?

6 Shine, on 12/03/2009 at 05h11

Yeah,I know that

7 Xiroas, on 12/03/2009 at 05h17

thunderboyx wrote:You guys do know that this is possible through Personalized profiles?

The thing is that it's not an automatic process, I want something that's automatic and instant upon achieving the set goal/award.

8 thunderboyx, on 12/03/2009 at 06h05

Xiroas wrote:
thunderboyx wrote:You guys do know that this is possible through Personalized profiles?

The thing is that it's not an automatic process, I want something that's automatic and instant upon achieving the set goal/award.

But how do you know if the user spammed the posts, or said usless stuff in the PMs...

It would be better to be manual because there are always spammers

9 Xiroas, on 12/03/2009 at 06h17

thunderboyx wrote:
Xiroas wrote:
thunderboyx wrote:You guys do know that this is possible through Personalized profiles?

The thing is that it's not an automatic process, I want something that's automatic and instant upon achieving the set goal/award.

But how do you know if the user spammed the posts, or said usless stuff in the PMs...

It would be better to be manual because there are always spammers

If a user spammed the posts, which by spam I presume you mean just posts a lot; what harm does that do to you or your community?

If a person wants to say silly stuff in PMs, let them; a user will report them to an admin, and an admin will take care of it.

Manual configuring of anything heavy-loaded like this would be silly.

It's a matter of preference, myself and I can say safely; a LOT of the large forum owners out there want this.

10 thunderboyx, on 13/03/2009 at 16h49

You still haven't convinced me so, i'm not really going to vote

11 Tarogasini, on 13/03/2009 at 17h14

No. And i am being the only one who voted that way.

♣ Cash mod is sh**. Convince me otherwise and i give YOU a medal / award.
♣ Being called spammer isnt really a thing worthy of an applause, its more like being insulted
♣ Spy... ? Lurker ? NOT really my preferred title...
♣ People will post, if they want to. Being stimulated to post for such useless things - i dont need such people on my forum.

12 Xiroas, on 14/03/2009 at 05h54

Tarogasini wrote:No. And i am being the only one who voted that way.

That's fine.

♣ Cash mod is sh**. Convince me otherwise and i give YOU a medal / award.

In your opinion, you haven't convinced me why it is bad.

♣ Being called spammer isnt really a thing worthy of an applause, its more like being insulted

I run a forum that is mature in nature (meaning we have 18+ folks) who enjoy having a good time; plus we are pirates in the game we play, EVE Online.

♣ Spy... ? Lurker ? NOT really my preferred title...

In your opinion, in our forums nature we are Pirates in EVE Online; thus 'spy' and 'lurker' are great additions, plus you can rename whatever and create your own achievements, plus those were examples.

♣ People will post, if they want to. Being stimulated to post for such useless things - i dont need such people on my forum.

In your opinion.

So far all I got from you are opinions that aren't backed up by concrete ideas; the whole premises behind this reward system is for users to create/modify their own achievements, so you can create whatever you want for your forum.

For your argument you are very rude, so I will pretend you didn't say anything since the votes are 7:1, you being the 1.

13 Darren1, on 14/03/2009 at 06h08

I agree with taro here.

Also, how will this help 1000's upon 1000's of forum's, if there's only say 100's of forum's with more than 200 users?
Im voting no.

=> No.

14 Xiroas, on 14/03/2009 at 06h17

darren1 wrote:I agree with taro here.

Also, how will this help 1000's upon 1000's of forum's, if there's only say 100's of forum's with more than 200 users?
Im voting no.

=> No.

It's more of a perk, and just because you don't have a forum that has a lot of a people in it, what about people who do?

I bet if you were to do a poll (even on a smaller forum) on who would want achievements or trophies on a forum, majority would be yes, most people would like that award for posting their 10th, 100th, 1000th post or a LOT of miscellaneous things.

So far, I really have not had any real arguments against this; and it doesn't have to be ubar beneficial, it's so it's there; I mean who uses the roleplaying mod? Not many people, but it's there to use in case someone does want to use it.

15 Darren1, on 14/03/2009 at 06h41

I bet if you were to do a poll (even on a smaller forum) on who would
want achievements or trophies on a forum, majority would be yes, most
people would like that award for posting their 10th, 100th, 1000th post
or a LOT of miscellaneous things.

As true as that is, you can just as easily do that with Automatic ranks + Personalized profile.

If I were to join ur forum, and you have an auto-award for 10000th post, I spam my way there overnight, is that worth it?

16 :)tayne:), on 14/03/2009 at 08h21

well ok > voted yes.

17 Xiroas, on 14/03/2009 at 10h09

darren1 wrote:
I bet if you were to do a poll (even on a smaller forum) on who would
want achievements or trophies on a forum, majority would be yes, most
people would like that award for posting their 10th, 100th, 1000th post
or a LOT of miscellaneous things.

As true as that is, you can just as easily do that with Automatic ranks + Personalized profile.

If I were to join ur forum, and you have an auto-award for 10000th post, I spam my way there overnight, is that worth it?

That's not what I am going to do with my custom achievements (if the system is implemented for users to create their own achievements), I will maybe cap it out at like 1000 posts, and the rest are ingame related, community related or based on how many contributions a user posts so a medal or trophy is awarded.

I think you're taking things a bit too literal, in fact this system is supposed to be a bit sandbox so you can do what you want with it.

18 Xiroas, on 15/03/2009 at 08h26

10:2 thanks for voting folks Smile

19 RikaComet, on 15/03/2009 at 08h41

well for now I'm not voting... as eventhough its nice to have a reward system... where are the rewards/awards.... there's no official forumotion reward except for once or twice like moviemotion/invision theme contest...
nothin else... if asked i would say no to this as dreaming is just not ma thing~ bwi

20 Guest, on 15/03/2009 at 08h50

I fell asleep while reading your thread. Do you know what that means? I VOTE NO Wink