RE: Goals to Reach by June 14th 2019, Our 1 Year Account Anniversary
Thanks for inviting me into the conversation, @roleerob!
Although, I am not sure that I understand the issue right. What voting trial means? Does it mean that people set an auto-vote for the @pifc account?
I guess I have a slightly different observation on the goals set. As I see, the goals for June are aiming to grow the account's SP and to make its vote more powerful. Which is great! In that way, the auto-votes could only do good.
But, on the other hand, if I understand it right, @thedarkhorse sees the Pay It Forward Contest as more about the person-to-person interaction, rather than the auto-votes. So, there is something missing here. There are goals on the SP growth (where the auto-votes will only help), but there are no goals set on the community and interaction growth (where the auto-votes will be harmful).
So, there are no goals that are set towards the development of the community, although the community is something that lays in the Pay It Forward Core. Maybe, we should think about that, too? Because, as I see it, if it is all about how strong vote (how much SP) the @pifc account has, the auto votes are only going to do good. BUT, if there are also goals about people interacting with each other and the growth of the community, then there should be also some encouragement on that, too (e.g. best comment award, etc). In that way, auto-votes will not "steal the soul" of the contest, IMO.
So, the question is, what we, as a community, want to accomplish? Be more recognizable? Interact more? Attract more participants? Support others in more ways?
There are so many directions the community goals can go. But, as @roleerob said, @thedarkhorse is the founder of the contest.
So what's your vision about the community, @thedarkhorse?
I hope I don't intrude with my suggestions! And I hope this is helpful!
Thank you for your very thought out comment. The idea of goals related engagement would be great and something I had considered, but I had no idea how to track it. My thought was to write another post asking the community how we can encourage more engagement in a couple days. I try to limit @pifc's posting to 1 time per day to avoid draining anyone's VP who has us set on an autovote and 3 days in a row are fixed posts with contest related posts.
So we are on the same page with the need for community related goals. Just have no idea what they should be or how to track them in a way that doesn't become so time consuming that this becomes overwhelming. I need ideas from the community and wanted the post related to it to be clearly about just that need, not mixed with the goals set here for the "business" end of the community.
Yes, this is extremely important. Otherwise, all the fun will go away and sooner or later the contest will become a burden.
I am pretty sure that the community will come up with many ideas, so let's see what suggestions that post that you are planning will accumulate.