Thanks for the input all!
Make it 5 BTC and I'le spam the shit out of you.
I'll consider it. I don't want spam though, but if by spam, you mean "make lots of good posts", then I'm all for it.
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Well I can understand why just straight out appealing to people's self-interest might seem to be a winning tactic around here.. but call me crazy.. it also comes across as just another tacky-crappy marketing ploy for something I don't know if I care about.
Why not appeal to people's interest in the overall expansion/success of the bitcoin community and explain how bitcoinforums.net fits into that.. and then offer the financial reward/prize thing as a sweetener on top of that? At the moment it's all largely-illusory sweetener but no dessert.
What is bitcoinforum.net for? What problem is it solving? Is it just competition for bitcointalk.org?
Is this intended to split the community somehow? Along what lines? Is that good anyway?
It's not intended to split the community. It's intended to decentralize the reliance we have on this forum here. Myself, I also enjoy the slicker interface that a xenForo-based forum provides (vs SMF that is used here, and feels like it is from the 90's), but I understand that most people don't really care much as long as it works. But the biggest goal is simply to decrease the reliance everyone has on this particular forum/site. If it goes down, what does anyone have to turn to? We need to have excellent forum discussions in multiple places, so that if one source is down, people can still find information on the second or third source.
It is extremely difficult to market a new forum without offering incentives, no matter how good it sounds. Reason being, a forum is only interesting if people post regularly on it. And to get people posting regularly on it, there must be regular discussions to post on. It's a vicious circle of nothing happening if I don't force it to start happening. I can only pull so many ideas out of my hat each day to post about, so I need to offer incentive to other people to post so that we can have more discussions, so that more people regularly use it, and we can eventually have a second place of discussion.
why do we need another forum, when we have the "official" forums here? Besides, you are spamming these forums with ads for your own forums, but you are requesting people to not post spam in your forums. WTH dude?
See my above response for the answer to your first question.
I suppose I need to revise my definition of spam then. Spam is any post which doesn't make sense, or doesn't add information that may be of value to other people. Like a post that simply says "Boo!". No one wants to read that. Also, obvious scams would be considered spam and would be deleted. But, I absolutely don't mind people coming in and advertising their own websites or promotions though (provided it is posted in the correct section of the forum).
I'm talking about people who don't know what a cryptocurrency is, do not believe the world is run by a secret cabal of bankers, don't think ponzi schemes are a valid line of work, don't ... 