[mikeinjersey]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Sounds like gambling to me...

Nothing like gambling. No money would be accepted from anyone. No personal info either.

Just to be a member of the forum and make quality posts will enter you into the sweepstakes once a week where you'll have the chance to win a decent item. Like Video Game or whatever. Maybe even an iPod.

Don't you realize how the bigger the prizes are, the more that would join and participate in the forum ? Revenue could be generated through AdSense or other means. Big Traffic forums make a ton of $$ with AdSense these days.

I just can't understand why vBulletin hasn't partnered with a company yet to incorporate something similar into it's software.

Having a 3rd party do everything has it's pro's and con's I guess.

The pros ? They handle all the legal issues if a certain prize was suppose to be issued to someone else....or whatever.

The cons ? 3rd party companies usually like all kinds of personal info crap.

which is why i'd rather just overlook it myself, but am somewhat unsure of the legal issues of it all.

For instance, if you type in 'forum sweepstakes' into google....the first result. (not the advertising result) how do they do it ? And look at how active their forum is.

We need something like this for all forums.