Hello everyone. Got a strange question, I don't understand how I can be awarded points for submitting posts on acurazine, and then my next post, I get points taken away? Any help on this topic is much appreciated!

 

thats a good question. I dont know either.

 

good question!

 

I don't think anybody knows.

 

I had not noticed.

 

No clue either. But looks good though.

 

lol well at least most of us r on da same page....

 

Ya I've only noticed these points & activity scales for the last couple of months. Definitely something new and definitely needs explanation.

 

If you PM Ron A, you will move up 10 levels.

Folks, just keep using the site as you would. Don't let the point system drive you crazy.

 

Perhaps this will help explain things:

So, what is vBExperience??

vBExperience is an advanced Level and Activity System (with Shop - currently not enabled, but it's our goal to set this up too), Awards & Achievements. It calculates an activity and experience score for every user based on their activities on the forum. Members will see how their level is increasing by participating within the community.

Communities are not only defined by post count, there are many more parameters that matter: Are the postings the user creates helpful? Are the threads frequently read? Does the user participate within the community by posting pictures, attachments, leaving visitor messages, tagging threads?

I'm sure you get the idea...

Before the doubters shout 'this is going to promote spam'... No, it shouldn't! The system only looks at posts made within certain forums... so if we find posting spam all day in the off-topic forum we will simply remove that forum from being included in the calculations

The system is setup to promote use of some aspects of the community, which get ignored, or which are not utilized to their full potential. In that sense, the introduction of this system 'may' improve your experiences within the myg37 community. You are also free to ignore it, and carry on as usual.

The way it looks... that can be changed. So bear with us as we're launching this for the very first time on any site!

Hot links can be seen in the top navigation bar and also within the quick links drop down... info in displayed within user profile pages and also via advanced stats and league tables.

Have a look around the system before judging... it's pretty fun once you check out everything that's covered. Also, if you have ideas for other awards of achievements, by all means, let's hear them!

The key difference between Awards & Achievements are: Achievements are like mileposts, which anyone can get, and then hold on to, provided they still meet the requirements. Whereas Awards can only be held by one person at a time.

'Some' of the things this system is scoring are as follows... (points per item purposely not discussed!)

Included into calculations are these things:

Threads

- Created threads
- Thread views of own threads
- Thread replies of own threads
- Thread votes of own threads
- Thread tags
- Replies to own threads
- Sticky threads

Posts

- Created posts
- Views on attachments
- Deleted posts
- Edited Posts
- Final post in a thread

User

- Days since registration
- Referrals
- Received infractions (points deducted!)
- Reputation / Use of reputation system
- Visitor messages on profiles
- Members of own social groups
- Albumpictures
- Friends

Misc

- Infractions given & received
- Raising a thread from the dead
- Creating Calendar Events
- More to come...

Calculation of user activity
The system calculates the activity by taking the average post count of the ten most active users and comparing it to the individual users post count. This can be set to count only the last X days, e.g. last 28 days.


Coloured Bars Explained...

Three bars displaying user experience can be seen in the postbit beside each members' posts.

The red bar indicates current experience points and graphically represents user level on a range of level 1 to level 100.

The blue bar represents your current percentage of the number of points required to progress up to the next level. ie, if you are promoted to the next level up, your blue bar will start close to zero and slowly increase as your experience points increase.

The green bar indicates your activity within the community, bench marked against the average activity of the top ten most active members. (see above)


In a nutshell,

This system attempts to promote constructive use of the community. (so that we all benefit)

If you reply to peoples threads, make use of social networking tools, use the attachment system, use friends area, submit thread tags, etc, etc (things that enrich the community) your experience score will be higher.

I hope that you guys find this to be fun, and engaging, we've spent lots of time trying to 'get it right'.

 

Awesome!! I didn't really pay much attention to it and just used the forums as I normally would but I appreciate the explanation.

 

i need more points...

 

Thanks for the explanation!!

 

lol i noticed the point system is kind of broken...i ignore it but i find it funny how someone with less posts and less thanked posts is 10 levels higher than me.. Looks like seniority takes precedence (this guy's reg in 09)

oh well lol. If you can modify the point system I think points disbursed based on thanked posts should take precedence. But then the usage of thanked posts needs to be locked down with specific guidelines. I see people thanking posts like crazy when it doesnt contribute much to the discussion at hand. As it is now, a new member contributing a lot of good information will never be a higher level than someone sitting idly with an account 1-2 years older.

Just the way a computer forum i frequent does it. Helps the community know who's knowledgeable.

 

who needs points lol unless we get rewards like free stickers?

 

Don't worry about the points and any other crap... if you're really as knowledgeable as you claim it will show in your posts.... and nothing else will matter.. and people won't pay attention to anything else.

 

THIS is all you need to know.

 

 

Do we seriously have to ask this question every three weeks?

 

Yes , it wouldn't be acurazine unless the same question is posted repeatedly...

 

99.9%!??!??!


What's that mean? Did I break it?

 

I think it means it's ok to turn ur computer off for a little while...

Good job breaking the system...lol

 

corrected

 

<--- Mana

<--- Health

 

 

just whore it up in ramblings like justn does and you won't need to worry about your points anymore

 

LOL u guys are killing me!

LMAO!!!!

 

-10,000 points for creating this thread

 

dude!

LMao!!!!!!

 

who cares about the points

 

obviously, I do.

 

but then why are the points deducted ? any particulars ?

EDIT: Also with the awards....I get an award and its taken away....then i get it again and its take away again

 

Because, Anil......you have one sexy car.

 

^^^

Thanks Justin...but seriously, i would like to know....I hate points/awards being taken away from me....I deserve answers LOL

 

^no soup for you!

 

Every time you get an award, I give you an infraction and it takes it away.

 

^^^ just coz am brown eh....

I wanted to use that line since forever on Azine....never got a chance until now....Thanks gg ...I use it @ white people at work and you gotta see their faces LMAO....thats my trademark LOL.,...