[bestwriter]

There is no limit to the number of posts one can write at Forum Coin on a daily basis. I have not taken advantage of this and have restricted to may be a few and that too not on a daily basis.

Would you know the maximum number of posts you have written here on one day?

It would be nice if those who have surprised us with a huge number are given a bonus

[eldavis]

Due to my work on other sites and my may offline activities, I have very limited time to work here, so I mostly make just ten post per day.

[bestwriter]

Due to my work on other sites and my may offline activities, I have very limited time to work here, so I mostly make just ten post per day.

I am guilty as well but those who have time have the opportunity to write limitless posts.

[OldGuy]

There is no limit to the number of posts one can write at Forum Coin on a daily basis. I have not taken advantage of this and have restricted to may be a few and that too not on a daily basis.

Would you know the maximum number of posts you have written here on one day?

It would be nice if those who have surprised us with a huge number are given a bonus

I have been monitoring and recording all site activity since 2017. The data includes all members back to day one, 9/24/12. Over the life of ForumCoin, there have been 185 members who regularly exceeded 10 posts per day on average during their entire active time on the site. I have seen and recorded a few who far exceeded even 100 posts per day for part of their time.

None of them deserve any award or bonus for such activity.

The reputation scores represent the collective opinions of the entire ForumCoin community about the quality of the content from each member. Even though giving out reputation points is at the whim of each active member, those who provide high quality content tend to receive a higher number of rep points while those posting junk content receive very few. In most cases the few they do receive are in response to new member intros, replies to questions from Fergal and odd posts that do not deserve the points given at the whim of the giver, but rarely for anything that adds value to the topic.

The current average reputation score for all members for the life of ForumCoin is 8.0004%. The overall average reputation score for those who regularly contribute over 10 posts per day is just 2.98%. In the collective opinion of all active members, the quality of their high volume content is junk. They rarely add anything of value to the conversation.

Quantity does not equal quality.

[bestwriter]

Quantity does not equal quality.

Agreed but writing over 100 posts in one day surely shows how involved those users are here at Forum Coin. One needs time to post that many.

[OldGuy]

As I have stated in the past, the quality of the entire ForumCoin site is affected by the low quality content from members with reputation scores well below the site average. The blabbermouth members with a daily high volume of posts are the worst of the lot. Low quality or “junk” content from these members directly affects placement in search engine results and that directly affects advertising revenue. The time it took to post junk content is irrelevant when the results are not in the best interest of all other members.

If you will recall, payment per post was cut in half in September 2023 due to advertising revenue reduction and low quality content was a significant part of that issue. Since the ForumCoin site software cannot pay different rates based on quality content, we are all equally stuck with that reduced payment per post. Those who provide higher quality content are unfairly penalized as a result.

If anyone deserves any award or bonus, it is the members who are providing the highest quality content to the site. I have personally paid out such bonuses in the past based on the earned reputation scores and here do so again to confirm I believe such bonuses are earned by higher quality content.

If there was any fair action at all, it would be to ban those members with exceptionally low reputation scores to improve the overall quality of the content on the site so those who are producing high quality content can earn the increased revenue they deserve. Of course that should include all 176 members with negative reputation scores, all 768 with Zero reputation scores, all 105 with 1% range, all 93 with a 2% range and even all 101 with just a 3% range reputation scores (out of all active members for the life of ForumCoin) at a minimum. The daily volume of posts would drop but taking such a drastic action would rapidly improve the overall quality of the entire site. Again, Quantity does not equal Quality.

The top 16 members with the highest reputation scores out of 63 members who have contributed content in the latest 30 days:

Member -*- Posts -*- Points -*- Score
cinderella -*- 4933 -*- 669 -*- 13.56%
Netherrealmer -*- 33160 -*- 4565 -*- 13.77%
Pousinha -*- 1982 -*- 293 -*- 14.78%
bestwriter -*- 7330 -*- 1174 -*- 16.02%
Angie10 -*- 15364 -*- 2743 -*- 17.85%
oldbuddy -*- 10850 -*- 2033 -*- 18.74%
ptrikha21 -*- 5541 -*- 1083 -*- 19.55%
Yusra -*- 564 -*- 117 -*- 20.74%
Fergal -*- 12611 -*- 2634 -*- 20.89%
johnl0626 -*- 284 -*- 60 -*- 21.13%
Lushh -*- 2850 -*- 619 -*- 21.72%
cmoneyspinner -*- 17331 -*- 3772 -*- 21.76%
ragdollie -*- 141 -*- 38 -*- 26.95%
gwolf666 -*- 175 -*- 53 -*- 30.29%
Bizdustry.com -*- 864 -*- 323 -*- 37.38%
OldGuy -*- 3187 -*- 1700 -*- 53.34%

(Not including the site administrator who holds the highest reputation score
CyberFreak -*- 4118 -*- 2572 -*- 62.46%)

There are 4 other newbies who have not yet contributed 100 posts with high reputation scores but do not yet have enough volume to be included as one of the top quality contributors. Even with a low volume of posts, their scores are already well above 43 other long time members who have contributed content in the latest 30 days.

If the newbies can do it, why can't these long time members who keep posting junk?

[Yusra]

As I have stated in the past, the quality of the entire ForumCoin site is affected by the low quality content from members with reputation scores well below the site average. The blabbermouth members with a daily high volume of posts are the worst of the lot. Low quality or “junk” content from these members directly affects placement in search engine results and that directly affects advertising revenue. The time it took to post junk content is irrelevant when the results are not in the best interest of all other members.

If you will recall, payment per post was cut in half in September 2023 due to advertising revenue reduction and low quality content was a significant part of that issue. Since the ForumCoin site software cannot pay different rates based on quality content, we are all equally stuck with that reduced payment per post. Those who provide higher quality content are unfairly penalized as a result.

If anyone deserves any award or bonus, it is the members who are providing the highest quality content to the site. I have personally paid out such bonuses in the past based on the earned reputation scores and here do so again to confirm I believe such bonuses are earned by higher quality content.

If there was any fair action at all, it would be to ban those members with exceptionally low reputation scores to improve the overall quality of the content on the site so those who are producing high quality content can earn the increased revenue they deserve. Of course that should include all 176 members with negative reputation scores, all 768 with Zero reputation scores, all 105 with 1% range, all 93 with a 2% range and even all 101 with just a 3% range reputation scores (out of all active members for the life of ForumCoin) at a minimum. The daily volume of posts would drop but taking such a drastic action would rapidly improve the overall quality of the entire site. Again, Quantity does not equal Quality.

The top 16 members with the highest reputation scores out of 63 members who have contributed content in the latest 30 days:

Member -*- Posts -*- Points -*- Score
cinderella -*- 4933 -*- 669 -*- 13.56%
Netherrealmer -*- 33160 -*- 4565 -*- 13.77%
Pousinha -*- 1982 -*- 293 -*- 14.78%
bestwriter -*- 7330 -*- 1174 -*- 16.02%
Angie10 -*- 15364 -*- 2743 -*- 17.85%
oldbuddy -*- 10850 -*- 2033 -*- 18.74%
ptrikha21 -*- 5541 -*- 1083 -*- 19.55%
Yusra -*- 564 -*- 117 -*- 20.74%
Fergal -*- 12611 -*- 2634 -*- 20.89%
johnl0626 -*- 284 -*- 60 -*- 21.13%
Lushh -*- 2850 -*- 619 -*- 21.72%
cmoneyspinner -*- 17331 -*- 3772 -*- 21.76%
ragdollie -*- 141 -*- 38 -*- 26.95%
gwolf666 -*- 175 -*- 53 -*- 30.29%
Bizdustry.com -*- 864 -*- 323 -*- 37.38%
OldGuy -*- 3187 -*- 1700 -*- 53.34%

(Not including the site administrator who holds the highest reputation score
CyberFreak -*- 4118 -*- 2572 -*- 62.46%)

There are 4 other newbies who have not yet contributed 100 posts with high reputation scores but do not yet have enough volume to be included as one of the top quality contributors. Even with a low volume of posts, their scores are already well above 43 other long time members who have contributed content in the latest 30 days.

If the newbies can do it, why can't these long time members who keep posting junk?

That's amazing. I love to see my name on that list. Thanks a lot.

[bestwriter]

the quality of the entire ForumCoin site is affected by the low quality

Users want to earn and earning has nothing to do with quality posts here. The earnings depend on the category one chooses to write in. And again those one line (Example - What are you listening to) answers to threads are there for users to respond to.
In what way can you induce users to write quality posts?

And thank you for those FCs you gave me.

[gwolf666]

As I have stated in the past, the quality of the entire ForumCoin site is affected by the low quality content from members with reputation scores well below the site average. The blabbermouth members with a daily high volume of posts are the worst of the lot. Low quality or “junk” content from these members directly affects placement in search engine results and that directly affects advertising revenue. The time it took to post junk content is irrelevant when the results are not in the best interest of all other members.

If you will recall, payment per post was cut in half in September 2023 due to advertising revenue reduction and low quality content was a significant part of that issue. Since the ForumCoin site software cannot pay different rates based on quality content, we are all equally stuck with that reduced payment per post. Those who provide higher quality content are unfairly penalized as a result.

If anyone deserves any award or bonus, it is the members who are providing the highest quality content to the site. I have personally paid out such bonuses in the past based on the earned reputation scores and here do so again to confirm I believe such bonuses are earned by higher quality content.

If there was any fair action at all, it would be to ban those members with exceptionally low reputation scores to improve the overall quality of the content on the site so those who are producing high quality content can earn the increased revenue they deserve. Of course that should include all 176 members with negative reputation scores, all 768 with Zero reputation scores, all 105 with 1% range, all 93 with a 2% range and even all 101 with just a 3% range reputation scores (out of all active members for the life of ForumCoin) at a minimum. The daily volume of posts would drop but taking such a drastic action would rapidly improve the overall quality of the entire site. Again, Quantity does not equal Quality.

The top 16 members with the highest reputation scores out of 63 members who have contributed content in the latest 30 days:

Member -*- Posts -*- Points -*- Score
cinderella -*- 4933 -*- 669 -*- 13.56%
Netherrealmer -*- 33160 -*- 4565 -*- 13.77%
Pousinha -*- 1982 -*- 293 -*- 14.78%
bestwriter -*- 7330 -*- 1174 -*- 16.02%
Angie10 -*- 15364 -*- 2743 -*- 17.85%
oldbuddy -*- 10850 -*- 2033 -*- 18.74%
ptrikha21 -*- 5541 -*- 1083 -*- 19.55%
Yusra -*- 564 -*- 117 -*- 20.74%
Fergal -*- 12611 -*- 2634 -*- 20.89%
johnl0626 -*- 284 -*- 60 -*- 21.13%
Lushh -*- 2850 -*- 619 -*- 21.72%
cmoneyspinner -*- 17331 -*- 3772 -*- 21.76%
ragdollie -*- 141 -*- 38 -*- 26.95%
gwolf666 -*- 175 -*- 53 -*- 30.29%
Bizdustry.com -*- 864 -*- 323 -*- 37.38%
OldGuy -*- 3187 -*- 1700 -*- 53.34%

(Not including the site administrator who holds the highest reputation score
CyberFreak -*- 4118 -*- 2572 -*- 62.46%)

There are 4 other newbies who have not yet contributed 100 posts with high reputation scores but do not yet have enough volume to be included as one of the top quality contributors. Even with a low volume of posts, their scores are already well above 43 other long time members who have contributed content in the latest 30 days.

If the newbies can do it, why can't these long time members who keep posting junk?

wow! thank you so much !

[OldGuy]

In what way can you induce users to write quality posts?

The first step is to explain that low quality content is a significant factor of why earnings have been reduced. Search engine bots are always scanning the site. Quality content directly affects search engine placement in the results and that affects ad revenue. I have tried to make that point clear in many posted comments.

The second step is to make earning reputation points an additional part of the source of revenue by participating on this site.

On January 1, 2024, I posted the challenge to provide higher quality content that will earn positive reputation points. Those who have made the effort have been earning a 10 FC award for each 1% improvement in their reputation score up to the 10% range and then 1 additional 50 FC award for passing a 30% reputation score.

Several members have received the 10 FC awards and 2 members have earned the added 50 FC award since that offer was posted. All of this is part of the effort to urge members to provide higher quality content. i.e. Provide unique educational content on the original topic that actually adds value to the conversation and avoid useless drivel that does not add any value to the topic. Higher quality content is more likely to earn added reputation points and improve the earning potential.

On May 15, 2024, I reopened the previous awards for passing 100, 500, 1000 and each multiple of 1000 thereafter, but this time, the awards are equal to the earned reputation score. Earn a higher reputation score and those awards are higher.

I don't recall the previous date, but there was a topic where a member asked about reverting to the previous pay rate. In that discussion, I spoke about the reduced payment rate was equal for all members which seemed unfair to those who were providing higher quality content. I paid out these bonuses to those who had earned higher reputation scores as examples for those who needed to see that there is indeed an added value in providing higher quality content, earning higher reputation scores and earning added revenue as a result. This topic again is a second time I repeated these awards for members with the highest earned reputation scores to again demonstrate the potential added earnings as a direct result of higher quality content. You did say they wanted to earn from their posted content, right?

The reputation points and the earned reputation score has always been a guide to allow members to see how they are doing on this site. Reputation points are only an expression of the opinion of all members. A low score has always been a clear message from the entire community that you need to improve the quality of your posted content.

That is three ways these added awards actually put a cash value on the reputation scores themselves as an added source of earned revenue for all members. It all seems to be having an affect. The overall average reputation score for all members for the life of the site has been steadily rising over the last few months. Do you have any other suggestions?

[bestwriter]

Users I am afraid are not concerned about SEO for the Site. All they want is to earn and quicker and easier the better. Truth be told. All those incentives for high quality posts are not attractive enough

Is there anything that can induce users towrite quality posts - may be do away with those threads that call for one word or one line answers?

I do not see Ads here since you say quality posts are required for Advertisers to appear. I always thought Fergal paid from his own pocket.

[OldGuy]

I always thought Fergal paid from his own pocket.

Well, you have been a member for more than 8 years and most likely recall an earlier time when Fergal did mention that he paid all members from his own pockets. There were a few opportunities for members to post their own ads, and over the years since then, many more advertising opportunities have been added to the site to be able to pay members from the ad revenue instead.

All of these sections are for member ads:
Premium Ads - Reply and win 100 FC
ForumCoin AdsLotto - Post Your Ad and Win a Million
ForumCoin Shops - Start your Business Today

There is an entire list of added advertising opportunities in this topic:
Advertise on ForumCoin
Postby Fergal » 26 Sep 2013, 05:16
viewtopic.php?f=5&p=3354#p3354
(Last edited by Fergal on 02 Nov 2024, 02:33, edited 31 times in total.)

Just the revolving red letter ads at the bottom of every page gets about 8 or 9 clicks/views each day but no new ads have been posted there in recent years. Members themselves have been posting many ads on the site but have slowed down as part of the shortage of funds creating a looping shortage in lowered payment per post as revenue shrinks.

Oddly enough, those who are here to earn by posting are here for the wrong reasons. At the current rate, the best you can do with your first 10 posts is just $0.50 per day with the possibility for another quarter for the single article submitted each 48 hours (along with the possibility of an added 125 FCs if chosen as an outstanding article which again requires quality content). Each post after 10 only earns $0.01 per post. I suppose you could earn $1.40 per day if you slapped in 100 posts per day but that could take hours to complete for mere pennies per hour and most of it at that rate is going to be junk content. You could probably earn more per hour even working in the sweatshops in China. Posting content to earn revenue is not a good reason to even bother participating. All who eventually learn that lesson and came for the earnings have already left.

The best reason to participate on ForumCoin is to actually read the posted content from others to learn about real opportunities to earn a meaningful income. You always learn far more than you can earn here and that means all posts need to be of a high enough quality to be worth that. Low grade junk content is not helpful for anyone.

The only members who earn much more than the earnings from posting are those who actually have something of value and advertise it. I have reviewed the personal profiles of every member and have been startled to find even those who have never posted anything but a few ads hold a lot more FCs than those who just post content, even some with zero reputation scores and very few posts but have not yet cashed in.

Posting to earn revenue is not the reason to participate on ForumCoin. Posting ads will earn far more as it also supports the site with revenue to pay even the token acknowledgement for added content. High quality content attracts our visiting guests who support our own advertisers but the junk content drives them away as much as it drives the search engine bots to choose where it posts ForumCoin in search engine results. High quality content is needed to boost the site placement to even attract the guests who respond to the ads.

Every member should take the time to read or reread the posted site guidelines about quality content.
Forum Rules & Guidelines
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12

[bestwriter]

The best reason to participate on ForumCoin is to actually read the posted content from others to learn about real opportunities to earn a meaningful income.

I am with you on this and even I have picked up a couple of Sites where I got to earn a bit And wanting to learn anything else I thinki for that we can always depend on Google.

And as for SEO I Googled Forum Coin and this is what I got at the top

ForumCoin • Index page

ForumCoin
https://forumcoin.com
ForumCoin Shops - Start your Business Today. Sell products and services in exchange for ForumCoin. Zero payment and transaction fees.

The Article section does have info that users can benefit but the viewership is low as compared to for example 'Chat and what did you to today - this has 103,403 views as compared to articles that have 30,150 views

Seems SEO is doing its job despite there being no quality posts.

Just a clarification. Since you say most Ads are from users does quality matter?

[ragdollie]

Thank you very much! I can't be as active as I'd like, but I try to contribute to the forums whenever I can

[ptrikha21]

As I have stated in the past, the quality of the entire ForumCoin site is affected by the low quality content from members with re......

Thanks for mentioning my name.

I think once one feels a certain comfort level and familiarity with the site and confident of the fairness here, one would look more in the direction of quality content.

Yet again, a hard daily limit - 10 or 12 posts is very essential.

[monster_masterpiece]

As I have stated in the past, the quality of the entire ForumCoin site is affected by the low quality content from members with re......

Thanks for mentioning my name.

I think once one feels a certain comfort level and familiarity with the site and confident of the fairness here, one would look more in the direction of quality content.

Yet again, a hard daily limit - 10 or 12 posts is very essential.

You could post 1 post every day and that is fine especially if combined between multiple sites that is the normal average.

[OldGuy]

And as for SEO I Googled Forum Coin and this is what I got at the top

ForumCoin • Index page

ForumCoin
https://forumcoin.com
ForumCoin Shops - Start your Business Today. Sell products and services in exchange for ForumCoin. Zero payment and transaction fees.

The Article section does have info that users can benefit but the viewership is low as compared to for example 'Chat and what did you to today - this has 103,403 views as compared to articles that have 30,150 views

Seems SEO is doing its job despite there being no quality posts.

Just a clarification. Since you say most Ads are from users does quality matter?

When you do a search on a site name, the results bring up most sites without consideration of any quality content. It displays a link to the site along with whatever words the site owner included to describe the content.

As it is right now, about the only way new people find out about ForumCoin is that they happened to see an ad posted by those seeking new referrals and come just in response to those ads. Most new referrals simply do not stick around.

7018 people have signed up as members to the site as of this post. 2769 of them never posted a thing, 752 of them only contributed a single post, 1064 of them only contributed 2 to 10 posts and 955 of them have been banned. Only 2542 of them all have even gone beyond 2 or more posts. Only 579 even went beyond 100 posts and only 162 have contributed 1000 or more posts (without getting banned) during their time on the site.

Referrals don't seem to be attracting the best contributors. However, quality content directly affects the search engine placement for each individual topic based on the quality of the content of that topic. Most internet users never heard of ForumCoin and most certainly would not type in the site name when they are searching for an answer to their quest; whatever it may be.

The search engine bots are always scanning the site to seek out the very best content on each concept. The better the quality of the content, the higher that particular post is placed in search engine results. If we always make a point of providing high quality content, those direct links back to ForumCoin will be placed higher in the results.

So yes, most of those who view ForumCoin content are members. That even means the guests mentioned on the home page are members as well; they just did not log in during their visits. As a result, most of the response to member posted ads are also site members.

However, if we all made a point to provide high quality content in every post, the bots would record that difference, place that topic higher in search engine results and we would see more truly guest visitors that come here as a direct result of that topic. Those added true guests would then be apt to respond to our member ads as they browse the site during their visits and some of them might even sign up as added members as a result if they see high quality content everywhere they look.

So yes, the higher quality content makes a big difference, especially if your content includes unique and new educational content about the title of the topic to meet the quality demands of the internet search engine bots. Those added visitors could very well lead to added profits for members who post those ads.

[monster_masterpiece]

And as for SEO I Googled Forum Coin and this is what I got at the top

ForumCoin • Index page

ForumCoin
https://forumcoin.com
ForumCoin Shops - Start your Business Today. Sell products and services in exchange for ForumCoin. Zero payment and transaction fees.

The Article section does have info that users can benefit but the viewership is low as compared to for example 'Chat and what did you to today - this has 103,403 views as compared to articles that have 30,150 views

Seems SEO is doing its job despite there being no quality posts.

Just a clarification. Since you say most Ads are from users does quality matter?

When you do a search on a site name, the results bring up most sites without consideration of any quality content. It displays a link to the site along with whatever words the site owner included to describe the content.

As it is right now, about the only way new people find out about ForumCoin is that they happened to see an ad posted by those seeking new referrals and come just in response to those ads. Most new referrals simply do not stick around.

7018 people have signed up as members to the site as of this post. 2769 of them never posted a thing, 752 of them only contributed a single post, 1064 of them only contributed 2 to 10 posts and 955 of them have been banned. Only 2542 of them all have even gone beyond 2 or more posts. Only 579 even went beyond 100 posts and only 162 have contributed 1000 or more posts (without getting banned) during their time on the site.

Referrals don't seem to be attracting the best contributors. However, quality content directly affects the search engine placement for each individual topic based on the quality of the content of that topic. Most internet users never heard of ForumCoin and most certainly would not type in the site name when they are searching for an answer to their quest; whatever it may be.

The search engine bots are always scanning the site to seek out the very best content on each concept. The better the quality of the content, the higher that particular post is placed in search engine results. If we always make a point of providing high quality content, those direct links back to ForumCoin will be placed higher in the results.

So yes, most of those who view ForumCoin content are members. That even means the guests mentioned on the home page are members as well; they just did not log in during their visits. As a result, most of the response to member posted ads are also site members.

However, if we all made a point to provide high quality content in every post, the bots would record that difference, place that topic higher in search engine results and we would see more truly guest visitors that come here as a direct result of that topic. Those added true guests would then be apt to respond to our member ads as they browse the site during their visits and some of them might even sign up as added members as a result if they see high quality content everywhere they look.

So yes, the higher quality content makes a big difference, especially if your content includes unique and new educational content about the title of the topic to meet the quality demands of the internet search engine bots. Those added visitors could very well lead to added profits for members who post those ads.

Since the disconuiation of long topic lotos then every one would post here for a reward and this will raise the level of discussion since they are not random post like the past, even if @Fergal thinks to have game back, the posts on random long topic needs to have minimum quality to be qualified entries like users discuss each one to other and not images from giphy or for example a smile avatar or just some memes that significally decrease the quality of posts.