Forum Participation

[Kazen]

Hey everyone, I realize I'm still a new member but I had an idea that I thought would help bring new ideas to the community and boost overall participation on the forums. I've noticed in my short time here that it's just a small select few that post on the forums and contribute anything to the community in terms of ideas or even voting for new members or staff. When I was a member of NTG I know we incentivized forum use by having forum events featuring giveaways by solving puzzles or other little mini-games. This doesn't need to be anything amazing and in fact it shouldn't be anything more than a few crates, etc.

I was thinking if earning forum rep did something more than it does now that this could be used to increase activity on the forums and stimulate the community as well. They could use an already existing feature for example and piggyback on the idea of the random giveaway and have entrance for a monthly drawing require rep to join (earned each month not overall) for example. This or basically copying what NTG did to increase forum participation by having some sort of biweekly puzzle or mini game featuring rewards that would tempt people to check the forums every few days.

Thanks for your time and hopefully this hasn't been suggested before. I briefly looked in the suggested area and didn't see anything quite like this.