I am thinking of setting up a competition.

So I have set up a Doctor Who forum and I do have some active members, but obviously I would like some more and I have just had a brainwave of how I could get active members through the door and I would like tips and suggestions.

I have a signed 10th Doctor Picture (David Tennant). In perfect condition as I framed it as soon as I got it. I could offer it as a prize but, I am not sure for what.

I did think of the first member to make 1000 quality posts, but I am worried that would be too far fetched.
What are your thoughts on this?

 

That's a great prize range - you could also run a referral competition in direct with the posting competiion - that way, you attract members from all fields.

 

I think it would be a little ridiculous. For a start, 1000 posts is an awful lot and also, how would you define a 'quality post'? Would it be anything over 10 words or just something that is beneficial to the forum? These are the kinds of things you need to be thinking about.

You got a link to your forum?

 

You could do a competition where the user to post the most in a given amount of time would get the picture. Though you have the problem Jack mentions of post quality. With that competition, you might get users who post unhelpful pointless posts to raise their count.

 

Make a warning in your competition that if the posts are not quality and only a few words like "that's good" who will also ban them. You can make the competition in a certain amount of time, like whoever has the most posts in 5 days, and make a requirement for a certain number of threads that have to be posted- 20-30.