[Jack12]

Originally Posted by Llandy

I've tried a couple of times in the past, but it didn't really make much of a difference with the forum activity. Why exactly it didn't work, I'm not entirely sure of, but it could be that my users weren't really interested in taking part in discussions or the forum in general, even if it would mean that they could win prizes.

Thanks for chiming in. With my forum, the problem is not so much that my users aren't interested in taking part, it's more so that they're running out of things to take part in. We're all quite knowledgable in the forums niche, all know each other quite well and have just undergone builds so no shiny new toys for people to talk about for a while either. Hopefully a competition will give users a reason to post up benchmark results and get them discussing tweaking ect... and then I can work on bringing more users to an active forum.

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I tried a photo contest that ended up with half my active users going to a new forum over a dispute with the rules...

Thanks for your input mate. I find it stupid but not surprising at the same time for members to do such a thing and it's definitely something I'll be keeping in mind.