Seems like a good idea in that it gives users incentive to get people to come to the site and view the ads. But won't paying straight per post (either directly or statistically) encourage lots of short low value posts? I don't see a simple solution, unless you already have member or post rankings in the software or something like that.
yea I've thought about that, I hope people can police themselves and not be idiots but I dunno the posts so far seem pretty good. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Perhaps you could offer incentives in a way that specifically target constructive posters for payouts, maybe using an upvote/downvote system. Of course, that could just cause the forum to devolve into nothing but pandering for upvotes. Maybe take post length into account as well. But like you said, probably best to deal with the issues as they arise.
