How are points awarded in Community?
I don't know if this has been answered previously, but could an administrator / moderator advise how points are awarded here?
It is apparent (from today's - Monday's - leader board) that 20 points are awarded for joining Community, but what is the breakdown after that, I wonder? "Insightful", "Agree", "Like" and "Awesome" - do these "ratings" automatically cause a "bot" to add a set amount of points to the recipient?
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Badges or achievements or whatever-you-call-'ems give more, but the various upvote-thingies from fellow community members all translate to one point each.
As far as I have ever been able to discern, nothing that I do does anything whatsoever to my own points: neither starting a thread nor replying to someone else's does anything to my total (that I can tell). But I'm not a good research subject for this, because I can only track my points once I make it to the week's leaderboard: my account page has exact numbers for "visits" (which I swear increments if I so much as change tabs, or read the page twice) and for "posts", but it gives my points and my thumbs-ups ("likes") in "k".
I'm not sure a mod is the best person to ask, though: they have options enabled (such as a "promote" upvote-thingy) that the rest of us don't, but they can't tell which ones are mod-specific. Therefore, their experience of the Community software cannot be relied upon as a guide to our experience of it.
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And there are strange things such as a person who has only ever visited once, without ever commenting or posting, gets an award for being a member for 5 years.
Like Julia, I don't track mine until I hit the leaderboard, which restarts every Sunday night, in my time zone.
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