It has been almost half a year since my forum was established in August 2009, and it has been almost half a year now. The development of the forum is quite satisfactory, with the daily number of posts basically staying below 300. In order to increase the popularity of the forum, I have also thought of many ways, mainly through the consumption of the forum's virtual gold coins. Below I will talk about my experience on my own forum.
My forum is an industry forum, named Xinworm Zone. Let me first explain here that "letter bugs" are a group of fans who write letters or send emails to foreign teams to receive gifts from star players and other official souvenirs. I registered the domain name www.letterfan.com , which can be regarded as a more vivid expression of this group.
Because the forum has been cooperating with a relatively well-known football magazine, the forum developed rapidly in the first two months, and the number of registered members increased rapidly, but the number of posts was never too many. In order to solve this problem, I also referred to the practices of some other forums, and then combined them with my own ideas, mainly focusing on the consumption of virtual gold coins in the forum.
The issue of how to consume the virtual gold coins of the forum is also a topic that I discuss a lot with the webmasters of some forums. In this regard, A5 Webmaster Network is better at it. If it can be consumed, it can drive members to post.
First of all, I opened a "football betting" section on the forum, which allows members to participate in football game betting and place bets through virtual gold coins. Gold coins will be deducted according to the odds for wrong guesses and rewards for correct guesses. Don't think that this guess is easy. There are very few people who guess correctly, so members will consume a lot of gold coins. In order to continue to participate in the game, they will make money by posting or participating in forum activities.
There is also a "Trading Market" section in my forum, which is specifically designed for members to post trading information. Because the transaction information posted in my forum is mainly pictures, which takes up a lot of forum space. On the one hand, it is to control the use of space, and secondly, it is to consume everyone's gold coins. I posted a stipulation in the trading area. If you upload more than 4 pictures in a single post, you will be charged 10 gold coins for each picture. In addition, it also provides "highlighting", "bold" and "top" services for transaction information posts. Of course, this also requires gold coins.
Since the discuz forum has many plug-ins, some plug-ins can communicate with the gold coins of the forum. I installed the virtual stock market plug-in, and the money in the stock market can be exchanged for forum gold coins. This kind of consumption is also relatively obvious. After these consumption measures were implemented, the number of daily posts on the forum increased significantly and stabilized at more than 400. What really makes the forum active is the forum medal.
Because my forum is basically full of fans, I got some fan medals. The purchase price of each medal is 300 gold coins, which can only be hung for one year, and you can renew it after expiration. In addition, constellation medals and zodiac medals have also been introduced one after another, and they all need to be purchased with gold coins. Since members are eager for medals, the number of posts on the forum set a new record on the first day after the medal was launched, and has remained stable at a high level since then.
All of these gold coin consumption measures help to involve forum members. Only by consumption can there be motivation to earn gold coins. In some aspects, I also drew on the experience of the A5. Posting in some sections of the A5 forum requires gold coins, so I will often post in sections where I can get A5 coins. We only use these measures to make members more active, and do not encourage malicious trolling or posting of low-quality posts.
What I said is basically based on my own forum as an example. I believe that different forums have different methods for members to consume their gold coins, such as exchanging gold coins for gifts. I also hope that you can communicate more with me and share your experience in forum development. My email: [email protected]
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