Rewarding users for visiting your sponsors

[fonzerelli_79]

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??

[Scott MacVicar]

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.

[amykhar]

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

Amy

[fonzerelli_79]

your right

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

its encouraging to know that it could be done though