Hi,
The Mod Team is currently discussing a new feature for /r/DarkNetMarkets that should start for February 2014 and we would like to have you thoughts, ideas, comments about this project.
We are in the process of making "Reddit Gold" rewards for contests in the Sub.
The rewards will be 1 x Month of Reddit Gold for the different contests and it will be organized periodically.
For the moment we want to organize the contests every month but if we have the possibility in the future to increase the frequency of the rewards, we will.
A lot of ideas were already developed inside the Mod Team but we don't want to influence your reflexion.
As example we wanted to reward the best user review of the month, and these kind of participation to the community, but also perhaps the best Vendor or DNM Advertisement...
These rewards have the objective to give Reddit Gold to members of the community for different actions that help the community, things like best vendor review for example, and a lot more, the question is wide open for the moment so don't hesitate to give ideas.
We think it will help to motivate people in the right way to do better and better participations and will create a healthy emulation for the Sub.
On a side note the rewards are for the moment payed by the Reddit Community Core of /r/DarkNetMarkets and the Mod Team, any good soul that would like to join this project by adding some Reddit Gold rewards to this project is welcome.
Feel free to give your thoughts, ideas, comments on this new feature that will start in February 2014, we really would like to hear from the community on this.
Here's some of my ideas, nothing official just wanna get some feedback from everyone:
Gold for best vendor review of the month. Not sure how it would be fairly decided but possibly by total upvotes.
Gold for the most helpful user of the month (not on the mod team). This could be decided amongst the mods or we can allow community nominations.
Gold for best charitable promotion/donation of the month. We can find drug harm reduction charities and have them post on our subreddit. Its also a great way to give back to the community and I think it would reflect well on us.
Gold for most upvoted comment/post of the month.
Gold for best AMA of the month. Something like that doctor that did an AMA on SR1 or the postal worker AMA.
Gold for the winner of another banner contest. We can have a bunch of banners which we alternate every now and then. Keeps things fresh.
Also I think we should hold a raffle or something. You can purchase "tickets", .01BTC each (or less or more, doesn't matter) which can be held by someone on the mod team, and then we pick a 1st and 2nd place winner every month. 1st gets gold and 80% of the pot and 2nd gets gold and automatically entered into the next month's raffle. If there is any money leftover from that 20% that didn't get spent on gold for the raffle winners we can apply it towards future gold contest winners, this is also a good way to keep the gold promotions funded. Winners can be picked by some online RNG or we could have someone trusted and unbiased like /u/gwern pick a winner, if he agrees. gwern, I'll give you gold if you agree to help :)
Nothing is set in stone, we haven't decided how many gold promotions we'll be giving out each month as right now it will be funded entirely by the mods. I'm happy to donate 3 gold donations per month, so the number of promotions we run will be limited by the funds we have. If anyone feels like pledging gold towards this cause please let us know. We want to reward our community and encourage meaningful participation.
If you have any more ideas on possible gold promotions please post them here also.
Love ya guys.