While the idea of involving members to be part of the community by writing various user guides is an interesting concept, I find there is going to be a tremendous loss of energy and time of the members if the writing is to be competition based. On the basis of what the Admin has stipulated thus far...that such user guides are to be written by members and the BEST guide be then chosen, it would indeed be a gigantic loss of members time to
compete to produce the best guide which the Admin will chose- the rest of the guides will then be useless.
Rather, a principle of involving the community lies in identifying exactly what the community needs and to pair what the community ( members)needs with the existing talents of the membership population, in other words to match the talents to the needs.
In other words, first, identify what the members really needs - eg a guide to swing trade, a guide to upload software, a guide to set up a free datafeed etc and then secondly, to get members
with the interest, talents , skills and experience to offer or bid on those jobs ( which carries certain wealth points ), and choosing the best person to do the right job. In this way, members need not COMPETE in the actual writing of compilation or execution of the work except for the chosen one.
With these reasons, I would find reasonable grounds to suggest the Admin modify his suggestion as explained above, so that for a membership base of 100 who compete in the writing of a guide, instead of having 99 members who felt disappointed by being rejected after spending time writing up a job and doing the best he can, and with only one person who is really happy having his written guide being selected as the best and awarded the points, the forum can have 99 other members producing 99 other useful guides on various topics that match his or her skill and experience and earning useful wealth points in the process.
Regards
eastland
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