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Originally Posted by NichePay - StuartD
I figure since Lensman asked for suggestions on ways to regulate the contest threads more, we should have one central place for him to review our recommendations.
Me first...
I think contest threads should be
1) for paying advertisers only.
2) for limited periods of time only. Paying advertisers get X number of pinned threads for 2 hours at a time. So make it so that they only get 1 contest thread that lasts for 1 or 2 weeks at a time per month (since they pay for 1 month of advertising, they get a certain amount of time per month of advertising). No more of this "from April 1st to July 1st" stuff.
3) only allow 1 or 2 contests to be running at any given time. This way we don't end up with 10 contest threads on the front page at any given time.
4) pin them (perhaps with a "Contest:" label instead of a "pinned:" label) so that we know exactly where to find them and won't be seeing them 5 - 10 threads down on occassion.
That's all I can think of for now.
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I think there all good ideas .... the first one is a bit rough .. Mobbucks buys Ad space on GFY and we did that because i wanted to run a contest and didn't want to take advantage of the board ... I figured that if I'm making money from the exposer i should pay for it ... but i don't run banners every month ... I'm not running ads in May on GFY but will in June ... i think if i want to run a contest or give away i should be able to .... I do support the board with ad dollars when it's in the budget ... i don't want to be limited. It definitely needs to be cleaned up a bit ....
