**Post Here To Claim Mobile Posts** (Pilot Program)

[Old Regional Reserve - CTE]

Effective Sepetember 15th, 2019, Old Regional Reserve - CTE will be starting a 3 month pilot program designed to evaluate the benefits and difficulties of paying users for posts made via mobile interfaces (mobile browser, or tapatalk).

Problem Statement:
As it currently stands, 10000 Islands forums currency plugin generates 15 Tacos per post, paid to users. However because these plugins are only functional on the desktop version of the site, users who regularly or near exclusively post on the other versions of the site are not compensated for their posts.

Possible Solutions:
Currently there are two proposed solutions which will pay people for these uncompensated posts:
1. Individual Claim System where individual users will be responsible for keeping track of uncompensated posts and claiming them
2. A Universal Post Payment System, which disables the payments made by the plugin and relies on the reserve to generate a payment to users who opt in to reserve post payments.

Each solution has its own strengths and weaknesses. It is my intention that the pilot program be used to compare the efficacy and reach of both programs to determine the best path forward. When the trial period ends mid-December 2019. The Regional Reserve will host a discussion to gather input on both systems and prepare to launch a comprehensive program to begin January 1st, 2020.

Important Note:
To clarify, at this time no changes are being made to payments from the plugin. The earliest such changes would take effect is at the start of the comprehensive program. And those changes will only be made if the decision is made to go ahead with a Universal Post Payment System.

Pilot Program:
The 3 month Pilot Program will consist of two components, each designed to test aspects of the various solutions. The first component is the individual mobile post claims. The second is a universal post count bonus in the monthly Mortimer Report. At the end of the pilot program a report will be made detailing the impact of each components.

Individual Mobile Post Claim Program:
In-order for users to claim their mobile posts, the user must do the following:
1. Using a search technique, Excel Method,
or a manual count — users will determine how many eligible posts they can claim.
2. Users will post claims for eligible posts here in this thread during the pilot program.
3. The Regional Reserve shall verify the claim and pay 15 Tacos per post claimed to each user claim.
A) in-order to verify the excel method, users must submit a screenshot of the table/cells with the count to Old Regional Reserve - CTE via PM, or include it in their claim post.

The following posts shall be considered eligible:
1. Any post, made via mobile or via Tapatalk prior to the pilot program start
2. Any post made made via mobile or via Tapatalk after the program start that has not already been claimed by the user

Universal Post Count Bonuses:
Users whom have an Active Islander Account with the reserve and regularly receive Mortimer Payments will receive a tiered bonus based total post count with each Mortimer Payment. The tier bonuses shall be as follows:
1. less than 100 posts = 250 Tacos
2. 100 to 1,000 posts = 750 Tacos
3. 1,000 to 10,000 posts = 7,500 Tacos
4. 10,000 to 100,000 posts = 25,000 Tacos
5. More than 100,000 posts = 50,000 Tacos

Users who do not already have an Active Islander Account, will be eligible for the monthly post bonus if they establish an account with the Reserve.

If you have any questions or make claims please feel free to post here.

EDIT 9/12/2019 - Included Excel Method Link in Instructions
9/13/2019 - Includes instructions for verifying Excel Method

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

The post counting should start when? I mean, if we do the post search for mobile posts (I rarely use other way to post), we should start when?

[Old Regional Reserve - CTE]

Sept 10, 2019 3:39:45 GMT -5 Tuga Nation's Dragon said:

The post counting should start when? I mean, if we do the post search for mobile posts (I rarely use other way to post), we should start when?

All mobile/Tapatalk posts made by your account since it was created will be eligible on your first claim. After that only the new/unclaimed posts will be eligible if you make a second claim during the pilot program.

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

The search process explained above only gets me from August 5th until now... 986 posts via mobile in around one month...
I've almost 28,000 posts since December 2016, my average would be about 1,000 posts/month, I had period I've been innactive... Almost all my posts are from mobile, but there is no way to know how many...

[United Royal Islands]

Tuga Nation's Dragon - I am able to confirm what the issue is. Pro boards search history is limited to 1000 results to prevent excessive data calls to the server.

However, I have found a method of checking your entire post history. I was also able to verify that it includes post method codes. It is however a bit complicated and requires excel or spreadsheet software that supports .csv. It is also recommended that users conduct this process via a computer instead of mobile device.

It is my belief users will only have to use this method the first they claim (and only if they have more than 1000 posts) because once they catch everything up they will be able to use the search method listed above to keep more recent posts claimed like month to month or every 1K posts whatever their preference.

Initial Post Count Tutorial

Step 1: Go to Forum, and Select “Account Settings” in the lower right hand toolbar


Step 2: Select “Export Member Data”


Step 3: Select 10000islands forum & your username


Step 4: Download Forum Data
**Depending on how much data you have this process may take some time to create this link. It did send me an email when it finished (2 minutes)**


Step 5: Extract Zip File and Find “Post.csv”


Step 6: Format all your post data (a-o columns) into a table and mark the table as having headers



Step 7: Create Counting Table or just use the Formula below in a set of empty cells

Method	Method Code	Count
Desktop	0	**See Code**
Mobile	2	**See Code**
Tapatalk	3	**See Code**

Code for Counting Table:
=COUNTIF(Table[[how_posted]],[@Method Code])

Code Without:
=COUNTIF(Table[[how_posted]],2*)
*this changes based on what method you are counting see below

- Post Method Codes
0 - Default/Desktop
2 - Mobile Web Browser
3 - Tapatalk

***Special Offer***
If users are struggling with the excel portion of the tutorial, if they email me their posts.csv or .zip file, I will do the counting for them and send them appropriate numbers to claim. You must complete atleast Step 4 in-order to for me to help.
Users may PM United Royal Islands to request this service.

[Old Regional Reserve - CTE]

We have updated the OP instructions to include the Excel Method for establishing post count claims.

[Paffnia]

Based on the very helpful method above, I have made 167 mobile posts since I joined the forum.

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

Based on the useful (and very well demonstrated) Excell process, I've made the astonishing amount of 23,658 mobile posts since joining the forum...

[Aschente]

United Royal Islands can I ask how you managed to have 989 notifications. I'm honestly impressed

[Kuriko]

I've made a grand total of 1,734 mobile posts including this post. Apparently I had 26 computer posts.

[United Royal Islands]

I had 49 mobile posts, and 7775 Tapatalk Posts


Aschente - I use Tapatalk a lot and don’t clear out my forum notifications on mobile or desktop for long stretches of time

[Old Regional Reserve - CTE]

Kuriko, Tuga Nation's Dragon, Paffnia, United Royal Islands,
Thank you for making claims. Payments will be made after the program begins. If you could also include a screenshot of the counting table in your claim post or PM one to Old Regional Reserve - CTE to assist with verification. Said screenshot needs to only include the full table of post counts for comparison.

[Paffnia]

Sept 12, 2019 9:41:51 GMT -5 Paffnia said:

Based on the very helpful method above, I have made 167 mobile posts since I joined the forum.

[Markanite]

Thanks to United Royal Islands, for trialling this!

[Old Regional Reserve - CTE]

Paffnia,
167 Mobile Posts Claimed. 167 verified. 2505 Tacos Sent.

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United Royal Islands,
49 Mobile Posts Claimed, and 7775 Tapatalk posts claimed. 7824 verified. 117,360 Tacos sent.

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Kuriko,
1734 Mobile Posts Claimed. 1734 verified via PM. 26,010 Tacos Sent.

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Tuga Nation's Dragon
23,658 Mobile Posts. Pending verification.

[Ammotangandia]

297 mobile posts, no tap talk posts.

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

Sept 20, 2019 15:44:24 GMT -5 Old Regional Reserve - CTE said:

Paffnia,
167 Mobile Posts Claimed. 167 verified. 2505 Tacos Sent.

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United Royal Islands,
49 Mobile Posts Claimed, and 7775 Tapatalk posts claimed. 7824 verified. 117,360 Tacos sent.

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Kuriko,
1734 Mobile Posts Claimed. 1734 verified via PM. 26,010 Tacos Sent.

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Tuga Nation's Dragon
23,658 Mobile Posts. Pending verification.

i've just seen this now... I've not saved the file, and I don't know when I will be able to do it again, but don't bother too much with it... If you want, send the amount to TIC...

[Old Regional Reserve - CTE]

Ammotangandia,
297 mobile posts claimed, 287 verified. 4305 Tacos Sent.

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Tuga Nation's Dragon,
23,658 Mobile Posts claimed, 23,658 verified. 357,870 Tacos Sent.

[Echolilia]

I did an export (without using excel) and see 311 mobile posts:

$ unzip -p export_159300_echolilia.zip Post.csv | tail -n +2 | rev | cut -d, -f1 | sort | uniq -c
40148 "0"
311 "2"

[Aersoldorf]

I don’t have Excel but would estimate that around 30000 of my posts were made via mobile

[Old Regional Reserve - CTE]

Echolilia, 311 Mobile posts claimed, 311 verified, 4665 Tacos Sent.

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Aersoldorf - approximately 30000 claimed. Verification pending.

[United Royal Islands]

A reminder that I am willing to do the excel counting steps if you are willing to send the posts.csv file. We have had a couple people who have asked about email anonymity, and I have updated the offer to include third party file sharing or discord file sharing as a way to get me the file.

Using this counting method also includes automatic verification (cause I did the counting)

[Aersoldorf]

I’ll try to send you mine tonight, and my email is in my profile so I’m not concerned about that

[Aersoldorf]

I think I did it correctly, just let me know please. And thank you for doing it.

[Old Regional Reserve - CTE]

Old Regional Reserve - CTE is pleased to announce that the universal post count payment logic has been added to the Mortimer Sheet. Account holders with active reserve item accounts will automatically receive an additional acitivity bonus for the remainder of the pilot program. Additionally the logic needed to capture changes in post count between Mortimer Payments has been coded but not yet implemented.

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The Regional Reserve has begun drafting a status report for presentation to the islands at this midway point in the pilot program and to begin discussing the preferred direction of the islands.

[Paffnia]

Nov 14, 2019 16:07:01 GMT -5 Old Regional Reserve - CTE said:

The Regional Reserve has begun drafting a status report for presentation to the islands at this midway point in the pilot program and to begin discussing the preferred direction of the islands.

Any update on this?

[Flying Eagles]

I just realized I’ve only made 2 mobile posts

[The Regional Reserve]

This program is now closed.