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Off Topic Chat => The Conversation Parlor => Topic started by: xela on May 01, 2012, 03:23:55 PM
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Well after a long time of them being gone, I decided it's time to bring back posting incentives. Before showing you guys the rewards, let's take a minute to review how they work and why you get them. How they work is simple: When you reach a certain post count or earn a certain badge, you can select a prize to redeem. You may redeem up to two prizes per person over your entire stay at this forum. You can opt to select two low tier prizes which will be worth much less and way less cool, but on the flip side require much less work and time. The high tier prizes may take a year or more to get, but darn it are they worth it. Since we have some of the most awesome members on this forum, you're basically getting cool schwag to hang out with your friends.
Why do you earn these rewards? It's certainly not just for your post count. In fact, spamming or boosting your post count will disqualify you from this program. We want people that contribute. Goofing off is awesome and certainly has its place. Perhaps 1/10 of your posts can be silly, or 10/10 in our spam boards, but elsewhere we want you to add to the thread in some way and to progress the conversation. Some of you may be able to only post one real good contribution per day. Others will manage to post 40, and that's awesome. There is no limit to how many good posts you can make to earn your rewards.
So what are the rewards? Check it out:
250 posts - Two random signed Vortex playing cards + a random drawing (you can request what it is) to entertain your fancies.
500 posts - One random Vortex Protodeck playing card + all of the above
1,000 posts - Your sales thread is stickied in our STISOs board for 30 days
1,000 posts - Your Lolaq thread is stickied for 1 year
1,337 posts - 10% off your next reward. Use this reward to reach any of the rewards below more quickly!
2,500 posts - A voucher for Alex's Playing Card Shop. A randomizer will be used to select a value between $1-30.
2,500 posts - One AetherCards deck signed upon request
2,500 posts - Stickied thread! You make the thread, and it gets permanently stickied in the board of your choosing. Reasonable restrictions apply.
3,000 posts - A random gift will be sent to your address. Current gifts include: Signed playing cards, Aether products, products from Alex's playing card shop, and random
doodles. You will be sent 1-3 of these gifts, with a randomizer deciding the gifts and the quantity. Value of gifts ranges from $0-100.
3,000 posts - One signed-under-cellophane AetherCards deck
5,000 posts - One AetherCards uncut sheet
5,000 posts - Every AetherCards deck release sent to you before anyone else for an entire year.
10,000 posts - $75 worth of AetherCards stuff + all of the above
25,000 posts - $250 worth of AetherCards stuff + Custom Forum Rank + all of the above
50,000 posts - One Jerry's Nugget deck of playing cards + all of the above
100,000 posts - First-class tickets for two to Las Vegas, NV. All other accommodations must be arranged and paid for by you. Included is dinner & a show.
These rewards are final and will not change at this point. If we roll around a finished version of the Fame system, these rewards will transfer over there. Limited stock rewards will be gone and replaced by something of equal value when stock runs out. Rewards may be added at any time.
There is only one rule, no spamming. This will result in disqualification from the program.
You can speed up how quickly you earn rewards![/u]
You can refer members to this site. For every 100 posts your referred member makes, you get 50 posts off of a posting requirement for any reward. Refer five members who end up posting 400 times, and that's 1000 less posts you need to make!
* Referred members will be checked on to make sure they're legitimate people
* Referred members must email contact@aethercards.com and provide your username AFTER they reach 100 posts.
* Spamming rules apply to your referred members as well.
* Referred members permanently get a 5% discount on all these rewards, giving them incentive to help you out.
That's all folks. There are absolutely no limits to how you can refer members. Get creative!
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Those are nice, Alex. The "good stuff" is much harder to attain than in the old system, but there are much more and bigger prizes. I am dying for the 50,000 post one! :P And will you have "automatic" rewards such as in the old system (i.e. pictures of the next deck and/or FOTW prize)?
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Awesome prizes! I'm really going to try to get the first 5,000 post reward and of course the 50,000 reward too :)
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So, if I understand correctly, say I have 5,000 posts and I haven't used any rewards yet. If I want to cash out at the 5,000 post reward, would that mean that if you release 2 decks that year, I would get both of those decks before anyone else?
The ones I'm looking the most forward to are:
1,337 posts
2,500 posts
3,000 posts
10,000 posts
25,000 posts
50,000 posts
100,000 posts
If I ever reach that many posts, I would love to cash out at the 10,000 reward!
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Wow, those are some seriously cool prizes.
Of course, I'm looking to get the 50,000 prize. Those Jerry's are calling out to me!
And yeah, I was thinking the same as Nathan - will there still be the unlimited automatic prizes?
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So, if I understand correctly, say I have 5,000 posts and I haven't used any rewards yet. If I want to cash out at the 5,000 post reward, would that mean that if you release 2 decks that year, I would get both of those decks before anyone else?
The ones I'm looking the most forward to are:
1,337 posts
2,500 posts
3,000 posts
10,000 posts
25,000 posts
50,000 posts
100,000 posts
If I ever reach that many posts, I would love to cash out at the 10,000 reward!
Yes, if you cash out on the 5,00 level for that prize you'd get any deck releases before anyone else. The way that would work is you would be sent the decks with all the reviewer packs that I send out on day one of receiving them. You would get two of every deck. If two editions of one deck come out, you get two per edition. So if you cash out before the Harlequin KS for example, you get two Ex. decks which is probably going to be the most "valuable" deck release from me this year, considering less than 500 will be circulating.
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Ohh god, this could get ugly...
How about instead of total posts, you reward the (+) 'Enjoy this post'. Some people on here already post too much crap and it seems like this will encourage it further.
Don't get me wrong, I like the active community. It's already hard to sift through new posts as is.
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I am holding out for the jerry nuggets :) :) :) they would be so awesome. Glad the prizes are back. :)
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Ohh god, this could get ugly...
How about instead of total posts, you reward the (+) 'Enjoy this post'. Some people on here already post too much crap and it seems like this will encourage it further.
Don't get me wrong, I like the active community. It's already hard to sift through new posts as is.
The problem with that is the "+" thing isn't finished. I promised that Fame & the Fame Shop would replace this system, but Peuan had to drop the project for now to focus on her studies.
So I brought back this system, and made things harder to get so that we don't see new members spamming bad posts to get their 100 post reward.
Be assured, spam policies are as stringent as the last time the incentives were up. If I see someone crapping out posts to increase their count, they will be disqualified from participating. I have no desire to spend money on prizes for someone who did not earn them. :)
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Ohh god, this could get ugly...
How about instead of total posts, you reward the (+) 'Enjoy this post'. Some people on here already post too much crap and it seems like this will encourage it further.
Don't get me wrong, I like the active community. It's already hard to sift through new posts as is.
He will reward that. This is in addition to fame, which is in beta.
Alex, thx for the answer.
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@Russel - Alex did mention that spammers will be restricted from this "Contest".
Also Alex, what is the difference from the 2,500 deck reward and the 3,000 deck reward?
If you said you can request a signature, does the 2,500 reward mean that you are going to sign on top of the cellophane considering the 3,000 reward contains an "under-the-cellophane" signature?
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Ohh god, this could get ugly...
How about instead of total posts, you reward the (+) 'Enjoy this post'. Some people on here already post too much crap and it seems like this will encourage it further.
Don't get me wrong, I like the active community. It's already hard to sift through new posts as is.
The problem with that is the "+" thing isn't finished. I promised that Fame & the Fame Shop would replace this system, but Peuan had to drop the project for now to focus on her studies.
So I brought back this system, and made things harder to get so that we don't see new members spamming bad posts to get their 100 post reward.
Be assured, spam policies are as stringent as the last time the incentives were up. If I see someone crapping out posts to increase their count, they will be disqualified from participating. I have no desire to spend money on prizes for someone who did not earn them. :)
I personally think there should be a balance between fame and posts. Of course, quality is better than quantity, but we wouldn't a practically inactive forum either. Also members tend to defame much more than they upfame. I think prizes should be attainable both through post # and through fame, but if someone has terrible fame, they shouldn't be able to get the prizes for their post count, and vice versa. JMO
EDIT: So basically, the only way you can get more than 1 vortex deck at once or a harlequin deck would be by getting the coupons/lump of money to buy AC products, right?
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Ohh god, this could get ugly...
How about instead of total posts, you reward the (+) 'Enjoy this post'. Some people on here already post too much crap and it seems like this will encourage it further.
Don't get me wrong, I like the active community. It's already hard to sift through new posts as is.
The problem with that is the "+" thing isn't finished. I promised that Fame & the Fame Shop would replace this system, but Peuan had to drop the project for now to focus on her studies.
So I brought back this system, and made things harder to get so that we don't see new members spamming bad posts to get their 100 post reward.
Be assured, spam policies are as stringent as the last time the incentives were up. If I see someone crapping out posts to increase their count, they will be disqualified from participating. I have no desire to spend money on prizes for someone who did not earn them. :)
I personally think there should be a balance between fame and posts. Of course, quality is better than quantity, but we wouldn't a practically inactive forum either. Also members tend to defame much more than they upfame. I think prizes should be attainable both through post # and through fame, but if someone has terrible fame, they shouldn't be able to get the prizes for their post count, and vice versa. JMO
EDIT: So basically, the only way you can get more than 1 vortex deck at once or a harlequin deck would be by getting the coupons/lump of money to buy AC products, right?
Alex probably wats to keep it fairly simple though. As long as someone doesnt constantly post crap, they should be able to participate.
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If employees are eligible, I wouldn't mind owning a Jerry's Nugget! :)) I'm likely to reach that number before anyone else - though at this rate, it would be a while...a little bit shy of seven YEARS...well, six and a half, since I've been here a while already.
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Haha Don, I also calculated the same thing. At the rate of 2,000 posts in 6 months, or about 4,000 posts a year, it would take me a bit more than 6 years to reach 25,000 posts, the prize I'm most excited about. However I could reach the 10,000 post prize within two years, which would mean that, by that time, I would be finishing up my junior year.
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Haha Don, I also calculated the same thing. At the rate of 2,000 posts in 6 months, or about 4,000 posts a year, it would take me a bit more than 6 years to reach 25,000 posts, the prize I'm most excited about. However I could reach the 10,000 post prize within two years, which would mean that, by that time, I would be finishing up my junior year.
Two years isn't that long. I started my YouTube channel about two years ago I believe. :) Seems like yesterday.
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Oh, I know that, but in three years I'll be in college, and who knows where life will take me from there! :)
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I will just wait and if i am still posting years later and can get the jerrys i will.