Nothing says motivation like some good old fashioned score keeping or friendly contest. With the iGrOOps Member Activity Points, you can create an environment for your members that encourages reading, commenting, and posting activity.
Use this feature to offer prizes to members who are most active. Perhaps free membership to the top X members. Be creative!
This is the member activity listing that appears on the left column if the feature is activated. You can see it will link to the member's profile, and display and link to any and all social networks if in the member's profile. This is a huge incentive for the member to be on this exclusive list!
Each member will see in their profile their points and ranking, visible to the member only and admin. This describes how the member can earn points and how they are ranked among all other members.
It is an industry-wide statistic that only about one out of every hundred members will actively participate by adding content in a social website, whereas the other 99 are considered "lurkers". By rewarding members for participation, even with just recognition, this percentage is dramatically improved.
Activating Your Member Activity Points Feature
By default, this feature is turned off. However, as of November 16, 2009 all activity is being logged. This means when you activate this feature, you will automatically have a ranking of your members to list (assuming active members).
You can "Reset Points for ALL Members" in the homepage editor section described below. This will allow you to run regular membership activity contents and give all members, old and new, an equal chance to win.
Begin by visiting your HOME PAGE EDITOR link on the bottom menu of your iGrOOp (you must be logged in as admin). Expand the "Left Column" link, then scroll to the "Most Active Members" section.
You will see several options to customize the way this feature works. You can define the point value for each action as well as the name of the points. Other options are explained within the home page editor. Make sure you click the save button at the bottom of the screen before making changes.
Points are earned for many actions, not just visiting, commenting, and posting. We use an custom algorithm to assign points to these actions. Like Google, the exact algorithm is not made public. This helps prevent gaming of the system.
You can use the "left menu item order" field at the top of the left menu section to choose where on the left menu you want these listings displayed.
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