Contrary to my previous opinion, I have now decided that I will utilise the Trophy Points system once we migrate over to XenForo.
The reason for this is it's a great way to get your community up and running quickly, learn the new features and to get people more involved.
For starters I plan to delete all the old avatars (waits for expressions of outrage) and encourage everyone to upload a new one, taking advantage of the larger images which are possible in XF.
I will create a thread explaining how to add a new avatar and along with that I will create a new trophy for adding an avatar, assuming of course this is possible.
Once people realise they can gain points for simply adding an avatar then I anticipate many more members will do so, thereby encouraging active participation
So this thread is for discussion on how to engage people and what ideas you have for trophy points.
My initial trophies will be
Edit: Since posting this thread, it's now clear exactly what criteria trophies can be awarded for - currently days, messages, likes (received) or trophy points. This thread therefore is now for suggestions.
The reason for this is it's a great way to get your community up and running quickly, learn the new features and to get people more involved.
For starters I plan to delete all the old avatars (waits for expressions of outrage) and encourage everyone to upload a new one, taking advantage of the larger images which are possible in XF.
I will create a thread explaining how to add a new avatar and along with that I will create a new trophy for adding an avatar, assuming of course this is possible.
Once people realise they can gain points for simply adding an avatar then I anticipate many more members will do so, thereby encouraging active participation
So this thread is for discussion on how to engage people and what ideas you have for trophy points.
My initial trophies will be
- Upload an avatar - 1 point
- Post a message - 1 point
- First like received - 5 points
- First like given - 5 points
Edit: Since posting this thread, it's now clear exactly what criteria trophies can be awarded for - currently days, messages, likes (received) or trophy points. This thread therefore is now for suggestions.