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ericgtr
12-27-2004, 10:00 PM
This is applicable if you run a Welcome or Introduce yourself type of forum. After taking the advice of the Improve your community registration & posting rate (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=65092) thread, the people posting in my Intorductions forum has easily tripled.

Since we are now getting a lot of initial posts from new users introducing themselves, there haven't been many replies and a few that simply go unanswered.

So I have decided to reward the one's who do welcome people with a "Welcoming Committee" image that goes under their avatar. Since doing this, replies have increased a lot and those who get the image feel like they are part of something. :)

I did this with a simple conditional, I created a new group called greeters and made a simple little button image that would fit nicely under their avatar. The called it up with this:

in your postbit (or postbit_legacy) template find:

alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a>
</div>
</if>


Add this under it:

<br />
<if condition="is_member_of($post, 62)"> <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/vb/your_intro_forum"><img src="http://www.yoursite.com/vb/images/your_greeters_award.gif" alt="Greeter Award" border="0" /></a>
</if>


Change the paths and group number accordingly, then add your greeters to the group. I also stickied a post in this forum promoting it.

Dean C
01-01-2005, 01:14 PM
Nice idea, and thankyou for sharing your tip :)!

dwh
01-06-2005, 01:37 AM
I like it. Here's an idea to extend it. Would be interesting if you could modify it a bit so that people automatically get that avatar if they replied to a post in that greeter forum in the last X days.

ericgtr
01-06-2005, 06:48 PM
I like it. Here's an idea to extend it. Would be interesting if you could modify it a bit so that people automatically get that avatar if they replied to a post in that greeter forum in the last X days.
This is a great idea, i'm not quite sure how to approach it though. Thinking about it, it would be nice to do without adding another query and could be possible. Maybe a way to utilize the promotion system and set something up on a per forum basis then add a conditional. Not sure really, just thinking out loud but I may look into it when I get some time.

dwh
01-07-2005, 01:36 AM
Personally I can't think of a way to do this without a query.

DavidatMPA
04-22-2005, 03:32 PM
I'll be using it :) Great idea!

gonecountry
06-04-2005, 01:37 PM
Newbie question, If my site has user info to the left rather than accross the top, do I make the change in the postbit legacy?

ericgtr
06-04-2005, 02:05 PM
Newbie question, If my site has user info to the left rather than accross the top, do I make the change in the postbit legacy?
Yes, that's correct. :)

gonecountry
06-05-2005, 12:26 PM
Worked great Thanks! ;)

0tolerance
09-04-2007, 05:57 AM
excellent.. it works on 3.6.8 :)

XnaMe
02-18-2008, 12:16 PM
any screen? Thanks...

princeedward
02-22-2008, 01:13 PM
do we have any image or screenshot here please.... :(