There really aren't that many people willing to give their best though. Each campaign(the 1s that I manage) only has so many open spots per rank. No matter who is in the spot in most cases, users are only willing to post enough to get paid. They are not posting because they like a topic, they are not posting because they want to inform others about a subject in most cases, they are posting to be paid. If they're being paid for 20 posts, then they do 20 posts. Every now and then I get a guy who is paid for 20-25 posts per week and they do 40-50 posts a week.
Look at suchmoons small sample
Effect of Signature Bans. Even though it's a small sample size, it is a correct view of what happens when users are banned from wearing signatures. Users just fade away into nothing in most cases.
I'm not against users making money obviously, and I would love for everyone to make more money. Users need to stop thinking only about themselves though. When they join campaigns, their first thought isn't how can I help this company. Their first thought isn't to log in to the website and check out the platform. All they are thinking is please accept me so i can make some money.
I'm not trying to personally attack you, my answers in most cases are directed towards everyone but you are the one who posted the topic and the 1 I am responding to. Everyone has an opinion and I feel they should be free to post their opinion, whether I agree or not.
The problem I feel is the you must make "X" posts to get paid "Y" (like mintdice turned into) campaigns as opposed to pay per post There is life outside the forum, and it can change and things can come up. Looking at the raw numbers of the sheet I have done
Week 1 = 39 posts
Week 2 = 35 posts
Week 3 = 36 posts
Week 4 = 34 posts
Week 5 = 32 posts
Some of those are in the excluded boards but all in all I have been above 30 every week.
As of today 1/2 way though the posting week I figure I am at about 16 posts.
If something happened today that would cause me to go offline for 5 days I would not make the number for this week.
AND since I would lose a day or 2 of posting into the next week I would feel that I would have to "post for the sake of posting" to make my numbers.In the old way, with some bare requirements to post at least 5 in the gambling forum and and a lower number of required posts overall it took the pressure off so if something came up, it came up and you just made a bit less those weeks.
This minimum post to get paid I do feel encourages a bit more spam. Just my view. Others might feel differently.
-Dave
Unfortunately when it was pay per post pay, there were a lot of accounts only posting 5 posts in order to get paid and show activity for the next campaign they join. If a person is making a whole 5 posts per week, how much are they actually helping a company?
Let's do the math here for a sec. A campaign has a requirement of 20 posts in a week. You have 7 days in that week to get your posts in. That's an average of 2.85 posts per day. Technology is a wonderful thing as well. Users can login to this forum via mobile phones, laptops, desktops, ipads, tablets, and who knows what ever else they may have. Most people are not going to run into the problem of going offline for 5 days and not being paid. Maybe users who live in an area where mandatory brownouts or electricity being restricted, but other then those specific cases most users have 1 of the devices mentioned above and would be able to access the forum daily.
Yes, some have a life outside this forum. I do as well, but I login every day. I even have to take a laptop with me on vacations with my family to ensure that campaigns are paid out even if I am out of town. God forbid I'm late paying everyone. Everyone is not me, I get that but you cannot tell me that making 3 or less posts in a day is a rough task to do. Honestly takes users less than 20 minutes of being online to do so.
If users cannot make 2.85 posts per day or whatever be the case, then maybe the forum campaigns are not for them.
Dave I have never had an issue with your posting habits. You do a fine job and are obviously 1 that comes to mind when I say only a few do over the minimum. Your posts are spread out in a few sections as well which is great.
I have other people I have skipped but want to reply to and will do so later tonight. I just refreshed the page and seen this reply and wanted to get my thoughts in before they left my head.