more and more debate is going on about subsription based communities.

Hopefully this is a last resort as the no of members will decrease.

I ask for all my members to visit my sponsor (ie banner at top of the page) each time they visit the forum.

Next to one does this.

Is there a way to monitor who visits your sponsor. You could then encorage your members to click on your sponsor more.

I propose this :

a variable called support_the_forum
Each day the members are encouraged to visit your sponsor
They can click on the banner more than once on a given day but they will only be given credit for 1 click that day.
If they click 1 or more times each time they visit the forum , their support_the_forum rating goes up, if not it goes down.

The support_the_forum rating would be a percentage. ie 80% would be a good overall rating and would be displayed in the post bit template.

At the end of the month you could reward the 3 members with the highest rating. Just split the cheque made from the sponsor and divide it to the 3 members with the highest rating. This will be paid easily from the money made from the sponsor.

Does this make sense or is it a little confusing??

I could see a way to force them to click it, simply require that they visit banner.php?userid=ThereUserId and you could stop them from posting if they hadn't clicked the sponsors.

Rewarding them could also be done similarly.

Gotta be careful though. Many banner companies prohibit forcing or coercing members to click.

Amy

your right

but some companies dont give a hoot - for example games companies

its encouraging to know that it could be done though