[OldGuy]

Members come and go at their own convenience. Most drop in to leave a few posts and then move on to other personal interests. Many really don't bother to look around and fully participate in all ForumCoin has to offer.

Make 2024 a banner year for all of us.

One biggie that is ignored by the majority of all members who visit the site each day is the ongoing contests. Contests have opened and closed many times in the past year, but end up with very few even bothering to enter before the award is handed out.

The latest contest that is open right now is a chance to win an extra 850 FC. This contest opened December 7th, yet even with well over 90 members who have logged in since then, only 21 members have bothered to enter. You can't win if you don't enter and you are not limited to the number of times you can enter. There is a one tenth of an FC fee per entry but that means you can enter ten times for a single penny. Why not take a shot for your own gain? Likely to be closed and a winner to be announced soon. Don't delay!
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Another area that is being ignored is the reputation points. Although they do not affect your earnings, the primary value of the reputation points and resulting scores is that it presents a guide to tell you how you are doing. Reputation points represent the community opinion of the quality of your posted content. If your reputation score is below the site average score (Just 7.956% at this moment), it is telling you that you need to do better. If your score is above 10%, it is telling you that you are doing just fine, but you can always find room to improve.

You can always see your own current reputation score by dividing your current total number of reputation points by your current total count of posts and reading the results as a percentage.

Strive to make sure every post deserves a positive reputation point. If you receive just one positive reputation point for every ten posts, you end up with a 10% reputation score. Avoid junk content that does not add any value to the topic. Try your very best to include new and unique educational content about the topic with every post.

If someone sees content you have posted that provides new and unique educational content about the topic and they have learned something from your contribution, they should give you a positive reputation point to let you know. Every member should participate in handing out positive reputation points when deserved so we all can see how well we are contributing to the site.

On the other hand, Do Not Give A Positive Reputation Point For Posts that do not provide Value Added content. If any member sees content that does not add any value to the topic, they should make a point of clicking on that exclamation point in the upper right corner of the post. That will bring the post to the attention of the site administration so they can take a look and decide how to handle it.

Reporting junk content will help all of us by eliminating low quality content that is affecting site placement in the search engines, which directly affects the advertising revenue for all of us. Improving the quality of the site content can help improve search engine placement and potential increase in ad revenue to give us all a raise. Improved search engine placement can also improve visibility for your own ads on ForumCoin.

Every member should make participation in giving positive reputation points for value added content and reporting junk content a priority part of your site activity.

quote by Fergal » 13 May 2023, 03:14
We do ask that all members report short or pointless posts when they see them, it helps us keep the forum clean and maintain a good quality of posts.

If you have not figured it out by now, earnings from posting are not the priority on this site. You are paid a small token amount for quality content but you can learn a lot more than you can earn by making a point of actually reading content even if you don't post any content.

Even though 60 members have logged in during the latest 48 hours, only 34 of them posted content in the latest 24 hours. It only rises to 44 with just 10 more who made their latest post in the previous 24 hours. That leaves 16 who only popped in to read content. That is all just average.

Reading site content provides new learning opportunities on every page. Other than earning from your own advertised offers, that is the biggest gain you can make by participating on ForumCoin. Read the posts before you contribute your own content.

Another area that is not getting enough attention are the advertising sections. Many members are earning far more by advertising their own products and services than anything earned by posting new content.

Consider your own skills and abilities to make your own offers. If it can be traded online, you can do it. Writing? Web design? Translating? Co authoring? Data Entering? Do you have any online store? Can you earn something from your own website? Can you offer any communication services? Can you provide any crypto trades? Think about what YOU have to offer and post your ad. While you are there, read through the current offers and see if you can find something you can use.

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[Fergal]

Thanks for sharing that OldGuy. If anyone has any questions on these issues, please do let us know and we will do our best to answer them.

[monster_masterpiece]

Another area that is being ignored is the reputation points. Although they do not affect your earnings, the primary value of the reputation points and resulting scores is that it presents a guide to tell you how you are doing. Reputation points represent the community opinion of the quality of your posted content. If your reputation score is below the site average score (Just 7.956% at this moment), it is telling you that you need to do better. If your score is above 10%, it is telling you that you are doing just fine, but you can always find room to improve.

In some gender sites reputation could affect your earnings like increase time between two posts if you have negative reputation like 3 minutes or even prevent from accessing to some sections or even some people got permanent ban for reaching certain level of negative upvotes.

[ptrikha21]

Offers and Advertising can be a great way to make good here.
At times, Articles have also helped me here.
I plan to bring up more Article topics on different topics in the next year.
Plus try to be more regular as and when time permits.

[OldGuy]

In some gender sites reputation could affect your earnings like increase time between two posts if you have negative reputation like 3 minutes or even prevent from accessing to some sections or even some people got permanent ban for reaching certain level of negative upvotes.

Here on ForumCoin, the reputation scores have no connection or effect on your earnings with the exception of a minimum 1 FC penalty that comes with each negative reputation point. Members are not barred from any part of the site with the exception of the administrative section that is limited to the site owner, the site administrator and the site moderator or moderators.

Although there have been 916 members banned over the life of the site, none were just due to negative reputation points. There are 176 members still on the open member list with negative reputation scores and a few are currently active. There are even another 758 members with a zero reputation score and only a few of those are currently active. Most just quit when they see for themselves (by their own reputation scores) that they are not doing well. Those who have been banned violated some site rule and it was always a considered executive decision not related to the reputation scores.

The only real value of the reputation points is a guide to each member to let them know how they are doing in the collective opinion of the currently active community. If you provide high quality content that actually adds new and unique educational content to the topic, and any other member learned something new as a result, they may give you a positive reputation point that will improve your score. It only requires one positive rep point out of every ten posts to eventually earn a 10% score. It is all just a guide.

The reasons it is better to report low quality posts rather than give a negative reputation point is (1), negative reputation points come with a minimum 1 FC penalty, (2) member to member negative reputation points may incite some revenge reaction of negative rep points back to you or other hostile action, (3) the administration has the ability to issue a negative reptation point with a penalty, remove low quality content or even take a close look at the overall quality of the content and find site violations that could result in a ban. It is just better to let the administration hand out negative reputation points and stay out of the possible line of revenge fire. BUT THEY NEED YOUR HELP TO SEE IT. You need to report it when you see it to help them.

Members just need some guidance to let them know how well they are doing, and member to member positive reputation points make that a visible community opinion. Low scores mean most feel you need improvement while higher scores mean most feel you are providing higher quality content. All members need to participate in handing out positive reputation points when they are deserved. It's like a pat on the back that says, hey, that was good content.

[Carson20t]

Wow, these are some excellent features that can give a small business visibility and get established in a short period. I know for sure that FC has a lot of people who are looking into either buying or selling various products and services. You just need to ensure that what you have put up will resonate with a selected few then you will be profitable. For a while, I have not evolved to become an advertiser and only concentrated my work on being a publisher but this year we are doing greater things.