Requirements for Active & Contributing Members
Active Members
are and have been working in a professional capacity in this industry for a number of years. Active members would usually be working in an organisation related to the industry of retail, shopping, entertainment, distribution, real estate development of such project directly or indirectly. Contributing to m&m counts to wards this definition.
Contributing Members
Why would you want to be a Contributing Member?
During alpha stage m&m will only be open to invited members - First Members. First Members will receive a share in the value of the company plus retain free membership for as long as they remain active and contributing members.
During beta stage we will invite Early Members and these will also retain free membership for as long as they remain active and contributing members.
In order to build this project efficiently we need to set targets and this includes the requirements for the definition of what a Contributing Member is.
The initial Formula
While we clearly stated in our ToU that details will be finalised during alpha and beta stages we believe we should set a starting formula.
Initially we will measure activity by the number of contributions a member adds to m&m during a specific period:
We hope that contributing members will be able to make:
| Contributions * | Period | Note |
| at least 100 | 1 year | but not all in one week - so |
| at least 3 | every months | but not all in the last month - so |
| at least 20 | per quarter (any 3 months) | |
| Forum Moderator | for min. 6 months at a time | other periods as above |
| Editor | for min. 6 months at a time | other periods as above |
| Author | monthly | 2 articles |
*) At this stage we have to exclude blog entries. Sponsors will not receive points towards any status.
Your Views
Let us know what you think. We hope eventually to have to add a maximum on the contribution a member can add.
Activity Measuring - the future
During ... alpha stage we will experiment with a points system based on the following weighting of contributions. Once we have completed the trial we will discuss the implementation at the end of ... alpha stage:
| Points for adding Content |
Points |
User Role |
| Blog entry | 1 | FM |
| Poll | 4 | FM |
| Binary poll | 4 | FM |
| Ranking poll | 4 | FM |
| Basic Listing | 2 | all |
| FAQ | 5 | Admin/Moderator |
| Image | 3 | FM |
| Site Notes | 3 | Admin/Moderator |
| Forum Topic | 4 | FM |
| Articles | 10 | FM |
| Book Page | 10 | FM |
| Handbook Page | 10 | FM |
| Help | 4 | Admin/Moderator |
| Page | 4 | Admin/Moderator |
| Story | 4 | Admin/Moderator |
| Rent Level | 8 | all |
| Comment | 3 | FM |
| Moderating a Comment | 3 | Admin/Moderator |
When a user deletes Content the awarded points will be deducted.

