Hyping up the members for goal achievement

Do you engage your members in goal-setting and achievement? For example, do you post monthly goals and make it fun for your members to post often (relevant posts, of course) to reach the goals?

I don't do this, but my members are very enthusiastic about our community. They get very excited when we reach major post-count and member-count milestones. I'm sure that if I turned it into a prize-less "game" to reach monthly or weekly goals, they'd participate and fill the forum with activity. I do think if this goes on for a while though, some may suffer from burnout, so I don't do this.

What are your thoughts? Do you publicly set goals over time?

 

I don't post the post count goals otherwise people would fill the site with useless posts just to get the count up. I'd much rather have organic growth.

 

At one forum, they don't publicly set it, but there is usually a member that notices when we reach a milestone - like 20,000 thread.

 

See, that's the thing - my members would make legitimate posts... just more often.

 

I try to hype up my featured contest of the month, and get people to enter them.

As for post, no, I do not try to get into the details like that with the members.