There used to be this site called, AAA which stood for Alien Adoption Agency. The founder, owner and creator was part genius I tell you.
He had a way of getting everyone involved and it was addictive. It kept track of how much time you spent on the site and for some people it was a bit shocking. Some members had spent 5 years of their lives investing into this online center. It was incredible really!
My brother was one of the games elected (by game players) officials who would be responsible for holding an office (like congress, mayor, governor, etc) and taking care of certain places within the site.
There were daily, weekly, monthly and yearly raffles and prizes along with a intricate point system.
My only suggestion at this time would be to add a system that would keep track of individuals, what they were doing and how well they were doing it.
For instance:
David's Society has been on this site for 3 consecutive years and has retained 15 new members since he became a new member.
He created/founded one club, helped fix 3 bugs, found 17 typos, caught 5 dishonest members, welcomed 1,700 new members
who have produced 100 pages of helpful content which include 97 photo's, 17 hours of video footage and have given away 36 frags.
Each level could be rewarded with a prize of some sort as well as a new badge that could be created.
This is a great site, but it lacks more content to become involved in. More types of content to keep the mind busy and make it fun and addictive in the process.
What if someone could be rewarded for adding so many photo's or winning so many TOM contests or grow out contests. The reward could be a free month of website membership fees.
How many individuals put hundreds of hours into this website every month, I would like to know how many hours.
Who has the most frags on this site? I would like to know.
Who has the most systems up and running, yea I'd like to know.
Who has coded the most content here? Yep, that would be sick to track.
What I am after is tracking everything and having some type of reward for all of it.
There is already so much content here and it's a fantastic foundation to build on.
I just remember AAA and how awesome and addictive it was.
Individuals had a hard time logging off and sleeping, everyone was working to make the site better, not just the moderators or paid team members.
Here is that site:
http://www.alienaa.com/