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Wonderful. I'm interested to know where you get these funds from.
We make money from advertising. Our forum is very widely read but we are still a small company. Great posters are the reason this forum is successful, so we wanted to create some fun new way to reward them.
I'm curious about how on earth you'll manage to get through reading all those posts from all those informative members. Will you go back through a member's posting history to read everything he or she has ever written, or will members need to provide links to specific posts that they've made that were informative? With 1.2 million members and over 20 million posts, that's a lot of reading for your judges, even if only a small fraction of eligible members enter the contest.
All questions aside, though, it's a really neat idea, and a great way to reward people who genuinely try to be helpful to others asking questions here. Thanks for finding a creative way to encourage positive behavior on the forum!
I sincerely hope that no one with 10,000 posts or more enters this contest! I couldn't imagine trying to read all of those to see which ones are informative! I'm not even sure I should enter, as I have over 4,200 posts!
There are a few very insightful posters here who I believe truly do try to help others with their inquiries or issues. These posters probably like to help people in general. I feel like the vast majority on this forum just like to see their words on a monitor. There is a lot of rudeness and smugness conveyed on this forum. That is why I no longer post personal questions on here; I don't like being bullied, put down, and harshly criticized by various posters. I'm guessing that is why certain posters don't post their problems on here either (because they don't want the favor returned, so to speak).
I think it's an Internet thing. There have been numerous studies revealing how people tend to be much ruder when posting anonymously on the Internet.
I think I've misunderstood the contest because I don't like to get bogged down in rules and reading directions to stuff I buy. Too bad, I was almost done with the poster I was making.
I was going with an inspirational theme using some of the common phrases found here, such as... "You are a _____" I thought I could soften up the message and incorporate a picture of a bunny rabbit or a horsey.
So, if you happen to be the most informative poster, but you are smug about it, you lose?
Then, may we also have a separate competition for informative posters who are handicapped by character flaws?
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I couldn't imagine trying to read all of those to see which ones are informative! I'm not even sure I should enter, as I have over 4,200 posts!
