[quinten182]

This system is fantastic, but..

This system makes me post more because now people respond more often, but..

This system makes me excited to level up, but...

But..

It may ruin us if it stays the exact same. Offering so many points for thread starting is not smart. I'd say make it 1 point.. but to be fair, I guess lower it to like 5, which is less than a post. Give me 0 for this one.. I don't really mind! I don't post for prizes, never will. I post because I loved the genuine love for toys the people on this forum have. We need incentive to make people want to get involved in topics that are solid conversations instead of randomly making something new. People complained about the few "what figure do you want to see?" threads.. and I agreed.. they got out of hand. But those were nothing compared to what this will become. We might as well rename this forum to facebook's twitter of four square and general discussion. Now I may be being harsh, but random lottery threads or one answer question threads are silly. They take up space when I want to read the ones of people's daily adventures toy searching, or amazing setups, pictures, or random finds, laughs, deals, prices, etc. The prize idea is great and wonderful incentive to some to be more active. I love more active forums, but when that "activeness" is just annoying and spam at best 75% of the time.. I feel like logging on to read less.

tldr; Don't ruin these amazing forums by rewarding new thread creation, reward people for posts and activity first and foremost. That's the heart of the forum community, not pointless thread creation.