Virtual Forum Cash?

[Justin]

What are your opinions/views on Virtual Cash?

It seems sort of pointless on the end user but the admin gets posts so users get money.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

I find cash mods great. It helps get people posting. Like if you wanna change your name u gotta "pay" for it through the shop.

 

[Bejay]

I have it set up as 2 per topic and 1 per post. I find it quite useless but can be useful for services, exchanges and that type of thing.

 

[CyberFreak]

It depends on the type of forum. I think for a promotion forum it is a really good feature as it encourages people to post to get services. Then it makes them stay active to a limit to get more cash to keep requesting the services. If it was just post count based. Once they hit the post count, they can just keep coming back every month and requesting and not posting elsewhere.

General chat forums just have it to increase post count really and they don't really have a valid use for it for my opinion.

 

[ADragon]

yeah there are a few sites that it is post less to have the cash mod

 

[Fergal]

As Fowler says, virtual cash works very well on promotion forums. However, you need to be careful with it. If members are posting for cash and not because they are interested in the topic, this can bring down the quality of posts on your forum.

 

[cityStatic]

That is where the MyBB mod MyPlaza can excel. You can edit it to give more cash for more characters in the post. 🙂

 

[Fergal]

Good point Christmaßtatic and that's a useful addition that a lot of forum cash mods have. It can help to improve quality of posts. However, unfortunately longer posts doesn't always mean better quality posts.

 

[cityStatic]

Most of the time, but sometimes you have the one that you can't program becuase you didn't install it correctly, so a spam post that reads

jf;akljfd;klgvanhjkl;fddklsfj

and so on and so forth would get say... 300 cash.

 

[Teekay]

Forum Cash are really good and helps the forum to get more posts.