MOTM and others

[vaconcovat]

We seriously need to get back on track with things.

• MOTM
  
• Promoting Contests/Actually finishing contests
  
• Promoting Badges
  
• Advertising the forum
  

Etc.

Seriously. There are a few contests that haven't been finished, months have gone by without a MOTM, people just realised that they could get badges... and we need other means of advertising than just the comment boards. Say advertisement uploads?

[Qwerty]

We generally look down upon advertisement uploads for anything. Greatly.

I do advertise the forum. It seems few others do.

Nobody really seems to care about badges anymore.

We ran out of members for MOTM rather quickly, and thus it died.

If making contests is that easy, why don't YOU make one?

We can't "actually finish" contests when none are running.

[FoxtrotZero]

So, Qwerty, when did you become a pessimist?

I think we can wait a while to bring back MOTM, but its HIGHLY important that we get interest put back in badges, as they all promote forum activity - we need to get a few more, too.

I actually DID start a contest idea thread, from which several contests could follow.

I don't know the state of contests ATM, but if any are still open, we need to give one last push to finish them, or else close them.

[vaconcovat]

I'm just saying, things need a little jump-start.

[Qwerty]

Badges = Yes. We can always use attention to them.

Contests. We sorta ran out of ideas, so should we just re-run old ones? Like that one explosion contest that rated mostly on beauty?

[FoxtrotZero]

There have been several advances in technology, i wouldn't mind seeing another Mixing Machine contest...

There is another board for this, but before i change topics, do non-staff have access to the contest ideas board? And furthermore, i think imposing a reward for coming up with contest ideas that are accepted (say 25 DBs?) would be in order.

In other news, I think we should up the reward for recruiting members to, say, 100 DBs, and, if noone has any objections, i'll start a thread for badge suggestions, with, once again, payouts to accepted ideas. Without the ever-absent Shining Silver in charge of it anymore, we should get something done, as there were some good ideas that he came on and blew out of the water.

And does anyone have any ideas on how to get more activity in the DB shop? Its pretty good, but i'd like to see it flourish, not only because its a good community point but because it would be a good feature for any new members.

[V.I.R.O.S.]

It isn't going to shine with Listo passing out amounts like 50k DBs left and right....

[FoxtrotZero]

Then he'll have to not do that.

[Qwerty]

Yes, all those. We will do them. In which thread do we post it? Make an announcement with them involved? I'll go modify the forum rules a little. Also, I hope you don't mind the lottery. It should encourage forum activity outside the spam board.