Using a Credits System (5 Viewers)

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Credits can boost engagement by rewarding participation—think feedback swaps, writing challenges, or unlocking critique tiers. On a creative writing forum, users could spend credits on featured story slots, beta reads, or access to exclusive prompts or workshops. It’s less about financial value, more about community recognition and motivation.

Those are some good ideas. I’d also recommend “sticky topics” or “ad slots” for users that create the most quality posts. Sticky topics could help depending on if the users want more exposure for their roleplays.

A banner in certain areas of the forums could be quite beneficial if users would like to promote on of their projects.

Depending on how many credits they earn, a book or two could also be an interesting reward or even a roleplaying game. However, this would be like 10k-30k credits or so. It wouldn’t be easy to obtain those rewards.