Do pay per post forums work?

[Commander]

When I say "pay per post" I don't mean hiring content creators.
Let's say there's "a forum" which pays all its members to post.
So we're not looking at content creation rate of like $0.05/post.
Let's say $0.01 per post and $0.02 per topic (no min withdrawal).
Like FP has "FP Cash", this forum would have real currency credits.
Understandably, $0.01 per post isn't exactly content creation rates.
But this isn't content creation service, more a loyalty rewards thing.
A system every member providing they don't spam can benefit from.
No minimum withdrawal so they can cash out at any time kind of thing.
Keeping rates low, though. Think of it more as loyalty rewards than a job.
Do you think this kind of system would work, or not?

 

[FastCreativePosts]

Yea that can work but your going to have to be super rich to start dishing out money like that! especially when the forum gets big with lot's of members. They will be wanting the money. It's a good idea though!

 

[Fergal]

It's very difficult for sites like that to be successful. The problem is that members post for payment and not because they enjoy participating on the forum. It's very difficult to build a community when members are motivated by money and not by communicating with their fellow members.

 

[Sam]

Yes it can. However you are going to want to pay more in areas where you are getting higher CPC rates to encourage more posts = more revenue in those areas.

 

[R44]

Let's try this again:

Like FP has "FP Cash", this forum would have real currency credits.

So, what? You're going to whack a forum cash system in, and implement a payout rate?

Understandably, $0.01 per post isn't exactly content creation rates.

Right, so what do you suggest, $1 (Forum Cash) per post. $3 per topic. Similar to here, cash out at $50 per dollar or something...?

Do you think this kind of system would work, or not?

Not, at least not how I have laid it out. It's confusing at best, add to the fact you're creating unnecessary clutter on a site where it will not benefit from such a system.

Base it off post count, threads are special topics and are paid the same way. It's pointless to pay more for topics, as they are essentially one and the same with some different processing pre-db-insertion.

 

[ForumsGroup]

I would like to see a good model for something like this that would be successful. I'd test it out if I knew it could work and I wouldn't go broke doing it.

It would obviously require the board to be making money already, whether that's constant subscriptions, pay-per-post fee's to join the club to get paid to post, or advertisements.

I think if you offered people money for posting, and you required them to pay a small fee before being able to, say $20. Then you could be able to pay that person for a period of time and the more people that joined, the more money that would be provided for this method. However, when that $20 runs out for that person, you probably should be making some good money with the new membership fee's and advertisements.

People who post enough times to make $20 at $0.01 per post would create quite a bit of content and bring many views for ads. The more people you have doing this, the more views that add up.

At $0.01 per Post
10 Posts = $0.10
50 Posts = $0.50
100 Posts = $1
1000 Posts = $10
2000 Posts = $20

For someone to make back a $20 investment to get paid to post at $0.01 per post would require 2,000 posts.

Depending on the quality of posts, it could be a great investment opportunity to earn some good money and build a great forum model.

However, will people stay and keep posting for $0.01 per post? You would have to get a lot of content started for a person to be able to reply to threads and get things going.

You could raise the bar for people down the road at bigger post counts if you wanted to.

Set payment checkpoints. For example, $10 payment threshold. A person would be required to make 1000 posts to claim first payment.

You would have to keep good track of payments made as well. So its quite a bit of work, but it can be a money generator for you and a great forum building method.

 

[Fergal]

I do like the concept GameOverViper.

For someone to make back a $20 investment to get paid to post at $0.01 per post would require 2,000 posts.

However, unfortunately I don't think members would go for that. Most people view situations, where they have to pay up front, in order to start earning money, as being some kind of scam. The truth is they are generally right.

Most people wouldn't make quality posts for $0.01, especially if they had to make 2,000 of them, just to break even.

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding something?

 

[E07.NET]

With pay per post forums, you get less earning, hardly 3 cents to 5 cents per post.. your work would be checked then you get paid.

I see mainly HYIP related forums have pay per post requirement as they need traffic in their forum to earn from HYIP advertisers..

 

[ForumsGroup]

I do like the concept GameOverViper.

For someone to make back a $20 investment to get paid to post at $0.01 per post would require 2,000 posts.

However, unfortunately I don't think members would go for that. Most people view situations, where they have to pay up front, in order to start earning money, as being some kind of scam. The truth is they are generally right.

Most people wouldn't make quality posts for $0.01, especially if they had to make 2,000 of them, just to break even.

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding something?

I was just making an example of what the OP was pricing it at. I know I wouldn't post for $0.01 per post, but it was more of a model to help me understand this concept better.