Here at Digiex HQ, we've had the geniuses working hard to figure out ways to improve services to our members and solve the problem of such a high number of users signing up but never posting. Today we announce our plan, which is clearly unique and has never been done before on a forum (except like half of them out there).

Let me introduce our new usergroup, the Digiex Power Users. This is a group of users who have made over 30 posts throughout the forum, been thanked at least once and have been registered on Digiex for over 30 days. To thank them for actually posting and being part of our community, we have decided to reward them with additional benefits. Benefits which due to many reasons, we couldn't offer to every single registered member and guest to our site.

We are still working out the full details of what benefits we intend to offer them, we have a rough idea. To start with, we will be offering every single one of them access to user webspace on request so they can create there own websites and have them hosted on our web server. Or for those who aren't interested in websites, they can just use them to host images and downloads. They will also have a separate user account to use on our download server which will prioritise them over normal users insuring our big hits like Red Alert 3 Beta's and Windows 7 Builds can be downloaded by them sooner than normal members. To top it off, we have planned some additional exclusive content which will be available to them faster than normal to ensure they get something for taking the time to post.

At the same time we don't want to make guests and normal members feel like second class citizens. Everything on Digiex will remain available to everyone, no matter if your a normal registered user or just a guest viewing the site. All our downloads, content, guides and arcade games will remain fully accesisable to you. 80% of our download server capacity is set for anonymous users, only 20% is saved for staff and power users. At the same time we don't have enough disk space or bandwidth to offer every member user web space like we have done up until now, so I'm affraid we will have to limit that to power users only.

Please bare with us while we work the full details of what we intend to offer. We have created a forum for power users, which if you can see it and view the thread posted in there, means your already set as a power user. If any members have any suggestions for services or ideas of what we could offer power users, please do reply to this, we love your feedback! What do you expect for being a active Digiex member?

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Originally Posted by MunkyMagikUK great idea nimrod. Seems like the most sensible way of getting people to stick around and post, lets just hope they don't post utter shite to get upto 30 posts.

Originally Posted by Assassin How are you going to let people know there is a power user section and what it's content is?

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Originally Posted by Jimbodawg I've seen other sites that do this and random people would join and create the needed posts in order to view the forum, and the posts were just spam, I mean "asdfghjkqwerty" type spam. Good luck with managing it. =)