'Earning' a request

Hey everyone,

I'm sure we've all noticed the problem of members coming on the forum and requesting projects to be done for them and then not ever coming back to the forum or ever thought of helping someone else whilst they are recieving help.

My thought to tackle this was that from a certain day lets says next Monday all those that request something MUST atleast have 5 posts and those must be by helping out someone else on the forum such as giving a review for someone's site or maybe design ideas even if it's not on their own post, and if someone does request without helping anyone then you just have to inform them that they must help to get their request done.

Anyone have their opinions? agree or disagree?

 

I agree, maybe it could be set up so members cannot post in the 'Request..' thread without atleast 5 posts, and mods check through their 5 posts to make sure they are helpful/useful etc. and not just spam to get their post count up. <-- And if people did, it could end up in a temp ban, posts reset etc..

 

yep..I've seen it being done on a few forums where members aren't allowed to post in certain areas until they reach 5 posts, but I think that's Mimouns contol into doing that if he wishes only if most of us agree on this though.

It's a great community and puts our rep down when we have keep throwing people off by telling them to contribute...

 

What about a certain number of posts before starting a thread?
I know that's how it is with some other forums..?

 

Yep that's what I said didn't I? apologies if I havn't.

BUT...

the problem with that is the people will just put in random posts like 'great post - thanks for sharing' and that's not actually helping anyone lol so in order to make the members contribute they must help someone.

Even if they've done 10 posts and only 3 of the posts that they have made has helped someone then they still won't recieve a graphic because they need to have 5 posts that are helping someone and it doesn't have to be 5 different people it can be the same as long the post is useful.

If no one understood this then I do apologise..it's way past midnight here and brain not working proper at the moment so i'll explain again properly after the next 10hours if I just confused anyone

 

QFT, I know what ye mean xD


If people posted things like 'Great post' etc. mods can delete their posts, bringing the persons post count back down. Can also delte/archive their post untill they contribute properly. You could help the mods by reporting the posts of the person, with a reason like ' Post count padding' and maybe a link to their request. If the members help out like that, it's a very minimal impact on the workload of the mods.

Quoted again (with a small edit) so I don't have to write it myself

 

Makes sense; you'll probably need more mods then, since FWT is based on an honor system...

I agree with Recidivist...what if you had "report" button? (and hope nobody abuses that button...haha)

 

there is a report button...It's at the top of each post with the White triangle and a red outline that's how I usually report a spammer but not sure if everyone's seen it though. It's at the top right of each post you make so just use that if you ever need it..not sure if we need more mods though?

but good point recy just need the mods to see this post too lol and Mimoun to see if they agree then we can start this within a few days..

 

.....okay I just feel like a complete idiot; I'll just shut up now, ahaha.

 

lol don't worry no one usually figures that out I didn't figure that out after months of signing up to the forum lol it is a little hard to figure out as we don't pay attention to all these but when boredom kicks in you start to figure out things

 

Some very good points Ish. Just need to get in touch with CP and Mimoun and see what they have to say but so far so good

But I think we have been telling other members to help out within the forum and have a look but yet they still do not do it so I think by Mimoun setting a limit to all new members that they cannot request until they post 5 OR we can tell them ourselves that we will not be posting up anything until they begin to help with a minimum of 5 posts and that way they will have no choice but to help out and also they will help quickly making it easier for the person recieving it and also for the community.

This will also save us time from keeping an eye on each new post as we have many new posts that come in everyday but yeah this is for the forum and also for the great members that help out so anyone want to make a suggestion then please do if you also have any ideas etc

I think the only place where members can help is the website review so do you think we may need more sections on the forum? such as business card designs, logo critique and any others that come to mind.

I know Mimoun is changing the forum and that will take some time as he is very busy however, this can change the forum for the better but can only work as a community and also from the admins power!

 

A very good point CP and Forest.

As stated we are now mostly telling members to help out whilst they are waiting for their request to be done.

But my point on this is that we get new requests coming in daily, now to save us from checking on every member some posts will be lost and then we'll have to look for that post, but if Mimoun can set a rule on the forum that new members are not allowed to create a new thread until they have a minimum of 5 posts then that way we know that which ever new post comes in we can then work on it straight away instead of having to check back again every now and then to see if they've helped out.

And congrats CP on the site and logos. It's always a good feeling when you get that extra cash

 

True point..So I think we should all tell members to help out within the forum whilst their request is being done and then check back on them to see if they are and if not then they won't recieve any help?

the minimum posts? how many posts should they make in order for us to help them?

this bit can be discussed in PM so that new members cannot see the amount that they need to post else as Mimoun has stated their posts won't be of any good quality if not, then feel free to post

 

I guess i could be put in this bracket. A forum i regularly post on, states that you have to post a certain amount of time before you gain acess/privlidges.