Any chance to consider a newsletter style emails per user highlighting statistics of their posts and topics?
It could have the number of views and likes for all topics (and maybe posts if possible) and the number of likes at the top of the email, with most viewed topic and most liked topic in the body.
Also can mention the next badge that can be earned by the user
totally agree with you @codinghorror, would be great to have this on the user page but also as a periodic newsletter, maybe monthly? check out the one from trip advisor, i always enjoyed reading them emails they are sent once a month
Just dropping a couple more ideas I had in here for safe-keeping.
Unlike the kind of “progress bar for your forum participation” already suggested, I figured this system should also encompass “anything interesting you might have missed”. This kind of info is best done in bulk instead of a steady stream though, or else it’s just another New/Unread that you’ll be reading intently every time you visit.
Trending topics you might have missed (i.e. topics high in Top that you have not read)
Topics matching saved searches that you haven’t read yet.
I certainly think that’s the approach most worth pursuing, yes. We shouldn’t be adding yet another email sendout; we’re close enough to email overload as it is