Post by Vanished on Apr 3, 2009 14:37:43 GMT
Hi everyone,
Bobby came up with an idea to do a weekly lottery, wanting to give his own money away to a lucky winner, but that didn't seem fair and also it is not something he will be able to do every week.
I thought about it alot and am trying to find a way to increase our forum activity as well.
This is just an idea what I came up with, please reply and let me know what you guys think about it. First I will set the rules, then explain how we do it.
To participate in the weekly lottery you must pay 1K gold. This will give you 1 chance for every post you made on the forum.
You not allowed to spam or repeat posts and all post less than 5 words will not be considered. Also the post must be relevant to the topic.
You can also pay additional gold for more changes, for every 1k you get another chance, but to make it fair we limit it to 5k per person.
So if 20 people pay 5k that is 100k that will be going to the winner.
So, how do we do this? We use 3 things:
Firstly we can use the search function on the forum to see a list of all the posts in the last week, we can also use the member list that show the amount of posts every member made. Obvioulsy there are a lot of members on the forum, but only the once that payed 1K will be considered.
Secondly I will write a small Web Application that I will host. This application will allow me to add a list of members and specify the amount of gold they paid. This information will be available to see at anytime, so once you paid you confirm that it display the right amount on the site.
At the end of the week and perhaps during the week I will update the number of posts made by each paid member on my site so that you can check to confirm that it is correct. Any post that the officer or I feel is not valid will be copied to a invalid post thread and deducted from your post count. You can check that invalid post thread anytime and if you feel we were unfair you can dispute it on the forum. (HAHA, I know what you thinking, post something invalid, and then post disputes for extra points towards the lottery.... That would be clever but replies to that thread will not count, sorry).
Lastly we come to the actually Lottery event. Next to each name the site will display the number of changes each person have to win the lottery which will be the number of posts multiply by the Platinum paid. At the end of the week I will initiate a routine that will create a list starting at 1 and place each persons name at random in the list for each chance you have. For example, lets say this is the list of participant:
It will generate a list like this:
1. Sungar
2. Bobby
3. Syd
4. Sungar
5. Umbra
6. Umbra
7. Bobby
8. Sungar
9. Umbra
10. Bobby
11. Umbra
12. Sungar
13. Sungar
14. Syd
15. Umbra
16. Bobby
17. Umbra
18. Sungar
19. Umbra
20. Umbra
21. Sungar
22. Bobby
23. Umbra
24. Sungar
25. Umbra
26. Umbra
27. Bobby
28. Umbra
Then we all get together in the guild hall at the end of the week and 1 designated person use /roll x, with x being the number of entries in the list. This will generated a random number between 1 and x. The corrosponding name next to the number on the list that can be viewed by all on the Web Application will be the weekly winner, we reset for the next week and start again.
As I will be developing the program and updating the information, I will not participate in the lottery to keep it fair. But everyone else including the officers can participate, the more people the bigger the lottery.
Remember you will only get a chance if you pay atleast 1K and post 1 entry on the forum. And perhaps the winner will be kind enough to donate a few spare gold coins to me for all the work every week.
Please reply with your comments, it would really be great if this works. If you like the idea and want to participate, please just post a reply saying "I'm in" then I will know how many people will be interested. The Web Application should take me a few hours to complete, I don't want to do the work if not enough people is going to participate.
Have fun and hope to hear from you all soon.
Vanished.
Bobby came up with an idea to do a weekly lottery, wanting to give his own money away to a lucky winner, but that didn't seem fair and also it is not something he will be able to do every week.
I thought about it alot and am trying to find a way to increase our forum activity as well.
This is just an idea what I came up with, please reply and let me know what you guys think about it. First I will set the rules, then explain how we do it.
To participate in the weekly lottery you must pay 1K gold. This will give you 1 chance for every post you made on the forum.
You not allowed to spam or repeat posts and all post less than 5 words will not be considered. Also the post must be relevant to the topic.
You can also pay additional gold for more changes, for every 1k you get another chance, but to make it fair we limit it to 5k per person.
So if 20 people pay 5k that is 100k that will be going to the winner.
So, how do we do this? We use 3 things:
Firstly we can use the search function on the forum to see a list of all the posts in the last week, we can also use the member list that show the amount of posts every member made. Obvioulsy there are a lot of members on the forum, but only the once that payed 1K will be considered.
Secondly I will write a small Web Application that I will host. This application will allow me to add a list of members and specify the amount of gold they paid. This information will be available to see at anytime, so once you paid you confirm that it display the right amount on the site.
At the end of the week and perhaps during the week I will update the number of posts made by each paid member on my site so that you can check to confirm that it is correct. Any post that the officer or I feel is not valid will be copied to a invalid post thread and deducted from your post count. You can check that invalid post thread anytime and if you feel we were unfair you can dispute it on the forum. (HAHA, I know what you thinking, post something invalid, and then post disputes for extra points towards the lottery.... That would be clever but replies to that thread will not count, sorry).
Lastly we come to the actually Lottery event. Next to each name the site will display the number of changes each person have to win the lottery which will be the number of posts multiply by the Platinum paid. At the end of the week I will initiate a routine that will create a list starting at 1 and place each persons name at random in the list for each chance you have. For example, lets say this is the list of participant:
Name | Paid | Posts | Chances |
Bobby | 2K | 3 | 6 |
Umbra | 3K | 4 | 12 |
Sungar | 1K | 8 | 8 |
Syd | 2K | 1 | 2 |
It will generate a list like this:
1. Sungar
2. Bobby
3. Syd
4. Sungar
5. Umbra
6. Umbra
7. Bobby
8. Sungar
9. Umbra
10. Bobby
11. Umbra
12. Sungar
13. Sungar
14. Syd
15. Umbra
16. Bobby
17. Umbra
18. Sungar
19. Umbra
20. Umbra
21. Sungar
22. Bobby
23. Umbra
24. Sungar
25. Umbra
26. Umbra
27. Bobby
28. Umbra
Then we all get together in the guild hall at the end of the week and 1 designated person use /roll x, with x being the number of entries in the list. This will generated a random number between 1 and x. The corrosponding name next to the number on the list that can be viewed by all on the Web Application will be the weekly winner, we reset for the next week and start again.
As I will be developing the program and updating the information, I will not participate in the lottery to keep it fair. But everyone else including the officers can participate, the more people the bigger the lottery.
Remember you will only get a chance if you pay atleast 1K and post 1 entry on the forum. And perhaps the winner will be kind enough to donate a few spare gold coins to me for all the work every week.
Please reply with your comments, it would really be great if this works. If you like the idea and want to participate, please just post a reply saying "I'm in" then I will know how many people will be interested. The Web Application should take me a few hours to complete, I don't want to do the work if not enough people is going to participate.
Have fun and hope to hear from you all soon.
Vanished.