Our Telegram group is one of the major communication channels for the NEAR community. In order to increase engagement and drive more active discussions in the group, I suggest that we launch a monthly reward program to encourage members to make positive contributions in the group. In this way, we can also know more about the keen and active members in the community and foster them to become one of the key builders in the NEAR ecosystem.
Instead of just giving out NEAR tokens, we can create excitement and surprise the community by giving out a variety of rewards ranging from NFTs to NEAR swag, or even a chance to create their own DAO etc.
Potential impacts on the NEAR Ecosystem:
Encourage community members to make positive contributions in our Telegram group
Identify active members on Telegram, and nurture them into active builders in the NEAR ecosystem
Increase engagement and drive discussions in the NEAR Telegram group
Positive contributions include:
Raise good questions
Give comments and feedbacks to existing tools and projects
Provide assistance to community members in need
Actively share NEAR or blockchain news and updates
Create memes and stickers
Execution:
By end of the month, we will create a 100N proposal in the Telegram Community DAO SputnikDAO
Telegram admins and the Degen community can nominate members to become the award winner
5 active members will be selected each month to get a 20N worth of prize
Great initiative!
I’m glad we are creating opportunities to reward our most active and valued members. More importantly, this initiative is total alignment with our purpose and objectives.
Our Telegram group is rocking, lots of love and tender care have been invested…special thanks to our moderators, @3UN1C3 and @jcatnear
Great proposal. This move will help grow interaction among telegram community.
As an active NEAR community moderator I propose sparing a small budget (like 100N~/month) just for tipping new members on occasions via Near Bot. As far as I observe most of new community members doesn’t have wallet/defi experience. Most of them only familiar with cexes. These small tips might help them first experience NEAR wallet then discover the NEAR ecosystem.
This may also boost interaction among community members.
What do you think about it?
To support similar proposals I forward following data from telegram combot statistics.
current status (31/07/2021 01amUTC)
94.5% of our telegram community members haven’t sent more than one message, and
80% of our members hasn’t posted a single message. @jcatnear@3UN1C3@Grace
Most active members for telegram channel of July are (sorted by message count+length)
In my opinion Devs, Degens and Moderators can be excluded for the 20N reward
first five are:
Bailey12
Mo Lang
Vikash Kumar
Elliot Mayer
Ram Kumar
Yup! I agree. But since this is something new, i think both telegram admins and the degen community will share some good insight into the group dynamic.
But looking forward, we could even open nomination to all general members and do polls etc.
To avoid rewarding community members on monthly bases we can try this to increase engagement and to reward members who post something extraordinary during chats I call it Extraordinary Post
HOW THE Extraordinary Post WORKS
We love our community and we love seeing the many posts that educate, strengthen, and support the community!
From time to time there is a post that deserves more than just the short-lived attention it may receive before the chat in the various channels scrolls on. I call it " Extraordinary Post "
The team have to be constantly on the lookout for " Extraordinary Post " to share across social media channels. It’s another way of creating content from the community members and telling them their present is appreciated
These posts will be posts made by community members in any of the channels in discord or telegram.
There is nothing to submit or enter…community members have to just carry on with their chats in the various channels. The team will be watching! And if they determine your post is an "Extraordinary Post " they will share it across social media channels and reward the community member with some NEAR.
Top 14 active members are (apart from Mods and de-gens)
Vikash, Bailey12, Kenneth_jay, Arcadia, Larry Lang, Max, Noley, cudam321, Mr. B0n3, Cuong DC, Carlos Fetucho Jordan, Jisso Turtle Rabbit Kim, Anup, Moris
Since Vikash, Arcadia, Kenneth_jay, Larry Lang received rewards previous month (September)
Considering their participation on events/promoting them and helpfulness I propose Bailey12, Noley, Mr B0n3, Anup and Cuong DC
for the October Monthly Rewards
rocking, lots of love and tender care have been invested…special thanks to our moderators, 
Let’s have an open discussion here on some new ideas of the selection process and rewards!