Celebrating Small Milestones
- Thread starter Darthmaul
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Darthmaul said:
Success is like beauty...
If somebody feels accomplished for reaching 100 post, 3 blog post, 30 bucks then that's fine, let them celebrate. It's not necessary to celebrate it but neither is it necessary to celebrate 10,000 post. 😀
I hardly think it's immature but it's safe to say that an inexperienced webmaster would be more likely to celebrate small milestones.
JedoChristo
Paragon
Nice congrats!
Keep it up!
Keep it up!
On my forum we have Celebrated getting 1000, 2000, 3000, ect posts and yesterday we celebrated 100 members but we have not done this on other forums just on my own
Yes when we do hit 10k we will celebrate big style which I hope will be soon 😀
Yes when we do hit 10k we will celebrate big style which I hope will be soon 😀
I think celebrating the following post counts is fine:
10,000
50,000
100,000
200,000
300,000
...and so on. Those are substantial amounts of posts.
Ive kind of drifted off of celebrating member counts because on any forum, the member count does not represent the actual amount of people who post on the forum. Many could be inactive/abandoned accounts or banned users / spam-bots (some forums don't delete spam bot accounts).
10,000
50,000
100,000
200,000
300,000
...and so on. Those are substantial amounts of posts.
Ive kind of drifted off of celebrating member counts because on any forum, the member count does not represent the actual amount of people who post on the forum. Many could be inactive/abandoned accounts or banned users / spam-bots (some forums don't delete spam bot accounts).
IAAM Radio
Paragon
I do not think it's bad so long as there is truth in numbers. All too often you read the 500, 1000, etc and I for one will take a peak every so often to see who made the posts. Having 1,000 posts by members and not staff is very different than having 1,000 posts where 800 of them were made by the staff i.e. 1 to 5 people. I saw a post the other day claiming 80,000 posts with only 221 members. I had to look and it turned out 90% of those posts were made by 3 people. Those are three very dedicated people but the number itself is diluted.
I just bought phpBBC and it boasts of 83,000 posts, well 90% of that number is also from the original owners and two generation after. This means that member posts were very low. 83,000 sure looks impressive but reality is, it's not impressive at all when you look and see who made them.
After I bought the site I told the staff there is no more post requirements for the team. Seems the previous owners had a very stringent post requirement up to 50 posts per day per team member. When you have 5 people on staff that builds up fast and sadly member posts got buried in the staff posts.
I know my reply is long but there is no harm in an announcement so long as the number are truly repetitive of actual member posts. The ratio of member posts to total board posts should grow over time with the staff posts ratio decreasing over time.
Just my perspective.
I just bought phpBBC and it boasts of 83,000 posts, well 90% of that number is also from the original owners and two generation after. This means that member posts were very low. 83,000 sure looks impressive but reality is, it's not impressive at all when you look and see who made them.
After I bought the site I told the staff there is no more post requirements for the team. Seems the previous owners had a very stringent post requirement up to 50 posts per day per team member. When you have 5 people on staff that builds up fast and sadly member posts got buried in the staff posts.
I know my reply is long but there is no harm in an announcement so long as the number are truly repetitive of actual member posts. The ratio of member posts to total board posts should grow over time with the staff posts ratio decreasing over time.
Just my perspective.
I don't see anything wrong with it, small milestones can be an encouraging thing, if they are only waiting for the 10000 milestone and not being happy about their first little steps, they might get discouraged more easily.
Every forum has a story and its own pace, sometimes it takes a lot to make a few posts, so having your forum survive and having even X amount of members register an account is reason for happiness.
And they can celebrate whatever way they want, it is up to the rest take it seriously or not depending their own experiences.
Every forum has a story and its own pace, sometimes it takes a lot to make a few posts, so having your forum survive and having even X amount of members register an account is reason for happiness.
And they can celebrate whatever way they want, it is up to the rest take it seriously or not depending their own experiences.
I think celebrating these post counts is fine.
1,000
5,000
10,000
50,000
100k
150k
200k
And pretty much every 50k past that.
For small forums, when they first start off, that first 1,000 is a big deal. The first 5k is a big deal. Once they get past 10k, it really doesn't matter until 30 or 50k. And through all of this, all the forum needs to do is make a thread celebrating it, and that's it. No special banners or style changes needed.
1,000
5,000
10,000
50,000
100k
150k
200k
And pretty much every 50k past that.
For small forums, when they first start off, that first 1,000 is a big deal. The first 5k is a big deal. Once they get past 10k, it really doesn't matter until 30 or 50k. And through all of this, all the forum needs to do is make a thread celebrating it, and that's it. No special banners or style changes needed.
White Panda
Reputable
I understand celebrating those, especially for people new in the business. The first 100 posts on your forum can be exciting. Then 200, you realize omg you just doubled 100! After that it's 500, then 1,000. For a long time when you are new to this game, it is a huge deal.
Well, for some 100 posts are a reason to celebrate. I usually 'celebrate' posts from 1k and most of the time forget. On my Romanian forums I had 60K posts and opened a thread for it, of course. Will 'celebrate' again on 70K.
When I was younger I used to celebrate certain posting milestones and now I don't bother. If I'm advertising I often say that we're soon reaching a certain amount of posts but I don't celebrate it. In all honesty, I think to myself what is the point and does anybody actually care?
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