I am creating a community forum for my clients.
This forum will be part of a monthly paid membership, and so encouraging user engagement & investment is very important, so that people stay members for a longer time.
I would like to model certain user engagement tactics used by: http://stackoverflow.com/about
Among other, Stack Overflow has these social tactics:
- Users earn social "reputation points" when others vote for or "like" their posts
- The more a post is voted for, the higher it rises in the discussion thread, such that the more valuable posts appear on top. This also encourages high quality replies.
- Users can earn a large number of social "merit badges", relative to their acheivements on the forum, like: http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges
Does vBulletin allow for this kind of social rewarding of user engagement?
In what other ways can vBulletin encourage user engagement?
Thank you for your help.
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