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REWARDS: procrastinaters.com is thrilled to offer what we can to reward the active users who make this site possible.  As such, we've built a package for the top contributing members of our community (and those who have temporary status by winning contests and ____ of the Month selections).  We want to offer the best packages, so as always we're open to whatever suggestions you guys have for how to further reward these posters.  The package as of now includes:

• Free Advertising: Exceptions to the posting guidelines allow you to advertise your own projects, companies, websites and so forth.  You obviously can't just spam every single thread or do anything else detrimental to the overall product of the website, but we want to know what our best posters are up to and support them in whatever way possible after you've done so much to help us.
• Automatic bumps/stickies of all queries until they're fulfilled: Just as with any ballin' club, VIPs don't have to wait in line.  All your queries will be kept at the top of the page until we can fulfill your request.
• Automatic Nomination for job openings on procrastinaters.com and other surviva Projects: A key pillar to being community-driven is hiring from within.
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• More to Come: Be sure to offer your ideas.  An example of an idea I'm working on is getting bulk subscriptions to sites of interest, for example, for good gaming sites that require payed subscriptions for our Commune's Gaming Club.  No promises there as that involves logistics and money, but that's just an example.

 REQUIREMENTS: The actual algorithm for determining the VIPs won't be explicitly released; however, it will be based on the following criteria listed from most valuable to least valuable:

1. Contest wins - You get 5x's points for winning anything that's listed as a contest
2. XotM wins - Post of the Month, Music Pick of the Month, Savior of the Month and so forth
3. XotM assists - Though the nominator of XotM winners will be kept anonymous, they will be rewarded with points.
4. Queries Fulfilled - Fulfill people's requests, get points, duh!
5. Assists - Query fulfillments are exclusively voted upon by the inquirer, so be sure to PM me the name of the person who was most helpful in fulfilling your request.
6. XotM Noms - Even if you don't win, the fact that someone liked your post, music pick, etc enough to be nominated means you're providing more value than the average bear.
7. Posts - You get literally a fraction of a point for each post.

In the beginning we'll select the VIPs based on percentile, but eventually we'll just have a floor so that once you've provided a certain amount of value for the site, you're always endeared.

Attached is an image of the actual Excel spreadsheet we use to calculate the VIPs with the hypothetical posters sorted in descending order.