We're trying something new on the forums, a way to recognize members for promoting valuable discussion here. We're calling it The Thread of The Week. Whomever starts a thread with the most replies gets a free Gold Membership for one month.
Every weekday I post a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:
Your Morning Briefing for Monday, November 18th
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, November 19th
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, November 20th
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, November 21st
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, November 22nd
Note that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so anything posted on a weekend is also included.
In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 33 replies as of this writing, the most popular thread from last week is:
Arrrgggg! Dad dropped his Verizon flip phone in the toilet.
Congrats to user Chessie* for starting our third thread of the week!
We're hoping that this little enticement will further encourage the sharing of news, tips and other useful information on these forums. What do you think of the idea? Please share your feedback, questions and/or concerns below.
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Andrew Currie has been blogging about mobile phones since 2001, smartphones (depending on how you define them) since 2002 and smartwatches since 2014.
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