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Posting Instructions Difficulties.

To be used in conjuncture with Suggested Posting Rates.
Related: Forum Difficulty Ratings.

In order to best price the posting rates for your forum, you must understand the difficulty of your posting instructions.
You may also use this guide for ideas on what to write in your Posting Instructions.

The instruction#146;s difficulty depends on many variables: Posting Frequency, Registration Process, Post Length/Quality, Thread/Replies Ratio and Category Specifications.
But before we begin to add values to each of the variables, let’s talk about some instructions that DO NOT add value to the difficulty meter.

Demographics
You may request specific demographics (gender, nationality etc).

Censorship
If you have a family friendly forum and/or don’t tolerate crude language, please make sure you tell the posters.

Interests
You may request that the posters have particular interests (dating, reading etc).
The topic of the forum is important to the Suggested Posting Rating, but it is factored in with Forum Difficulty Ratings.

General Nature Of Posting
What you want most the posts to be and in where. For example, if you have a Tech Help Forum, you may want posters to specifically post questions or answers (similarly, you may want them to post in the Beginners Forum.) Please don’t abuse this instruction. If you do ask for something very specific, please count that as a few point to do Posting Instructions Difficulty.

Now that we've gotten that taken care of, let's take a look at what instructions are weighted.
Please use the table below to grade your Posting Instructions.

Point Value	Posting Frequency (posts/day)	Registration Process (fields)	Post Length (words/post)	Thread/Replies	Posting Quality
0	No Restrictions
1	No Daily Restrictions	1-5	0-10
2	11-20	6-10	11-15	Mostly Threads	General Good Grammar
3	7-10 or 21-30	11+	16-20
4			21-25
5	5-6 or 31-40		26-30	All Threads	No Online Jargon; Perfect Grammar
6	2-4 or 41-50		31-40
7	0-1 or 51-60
Unrealistic	61+		41+

Now add the values together to get your Posting Instructions Difficulty Number.

Now take that number and refer to the table below.

Point Value	Forum Difficulty
0-7	Easy Difficulty Forum
8-13	Medium Difficulty Forum
14-17	Hard Difficulty Forum
18+	Impossible Difficulty Forum

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