Capt. Zeroth
Loftwing
Well, with my month off from Zelda Sages, I've traveled the world and seen many other forums. In one, there were two very interesting aspects: A Karma system and a Shop.
Karma:
AKA: Reputation
In this other forum, there was a system of karma. Any one could give karma to anyone as long as they had over 20 posts. Karma is simply a rating on how much a user is liked throughout the forum. If a great post was made giving info on upcoming Wii games, I could award this person 1 karma point. Now if this person instead spammed, I could deduct 1 karma point.
Karma is awarded anonymously and can not be done twice by the same person within 1 hour. It is not uncommon for n00bs to have negative karma. I think it is a much better system rather than post count, although both can be displayed.
The Shop:
My other forum had this, also. It was a shop based around forum 'credits' in which you got 8 credits for posting and 10 for starting a new thread. Be noted, that is not a lot of money at all. At the moment on this other forum, I have 5670.1 credits. (I'm almost on the list of top 10 richest!) There is a daily intrest of 2%.
With this money, you can buy items from the shop that can boost karma by a lot, lower other peoples karma by a lot, and do nothing at all. You can buy and trade items with other people, and send money. This is not what the shop is generally used for. There is a board called 'The Market Place' in which anyone may make and sell sigs, avatars, wallpapers, food, anything! This other forum is based around a game with customizable in-game things. I make and sell this sort of stuff. I also set up a lottery I suggest making collectible items in the shop.
Advantages:
Now for the advantages of these things. There could be contest where money or karma are awarded. It would add more interactivity to these forums. Best of all, as I believe, bob, these forum mods are free. I do not know, though if vBulletin supports these, though.
Bob, the other forum uses simple machines and the shop is powered by SMFShop 2.3(Build 11). If you can get this working, It would be great. If not, why not set up a second forum used only for the market place powered by simple machines?
Karma:
AKA: Reputation
In this other forum, there was a system of karma. Any one could give karma to anyone as long as they had over 20 posts. Karma is simply a rating on how much a user is liked throughout the forum. If a great post was made giving info on upcoming Wii games, I could award this person 1 karma point. Now if this person instead spammed, I could deduct 1 karma point.
Karma is awarded anonymously and can not be done twice by the same person within 1 hour. It is not uncommon for n00bs to have negative karma. I think it is a much better system rather than post count, although both can be displayed.
The Shop:
My other forum had this, also. It was a shop based around forum 'credits' in which you got 8 credits for posting and 10 for starting a new thread. Be noted, that is not a lot of money at all. At the moment on this other forum, I have 5670.1 credits. (I'm almost on the list of top 10 richest!) There is a daily intrest of 2%.
With this money, you can buy items from the shop that can boost karma by a lot, lower other peoples karma by a lot, and do nothing at all. You can buy and trade items with other people, and send money. This is not what the shop is generally used for. There is a board called 'The Market Place' in which anyone may make and sell sigs, avatars, wallpapers, food, anything! This other forum is based around a game with customizable in-game things. I make and sell this sort of stuff. I also set up a lottery I suggest making collectible items in the shop.
Advantages:
Now for the advantages of these things. There could be contest where money or karma are awarded. It would add more interactivity to these forums. Best of all, as I believe, bob, these forum mods are free. I do not know, though if vBulletin supports these, though.
Bob, the other forum uses simple machines and the shop is powered by SMFShop 2.3(Build 11). If you can get this working, It would be great. If not, why not set up a second forum used only for the market place powered by simple machines?
Captain Zeroth