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What are the points for?

By ominousjune
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Under stats (in your profile section or base page) you find: Activity ratings - a general log of anything you input from comments to uploads or ratings, I think, and such, no matter what quality or how good you were rated. Just amount. This results in a position solely calculated on the ratio to other artists figure for that in comparison, also ending in our monthly statistics clickable in the left sidebar when working (sometimes in maintenance because of design overhaul, system changes, or calculation phases when months or years change) <br /> <br />Uploads - the amount of skins or screenshots you have submitted. May or may not contain uploads deleted in the meantime but will mostly count the amount in your gallery. <br /> <br />Page views - the amount of times your profile pages like gallery, comments, etc. was called up intentionally by any user including yourself. Note that seriously working artists making big suites or using legal copyrights of other artists need to test links, downloads, in stages giving some more views to that figure without their wanting to distort their own popularity. Unfortunately, it seemed in the past entering a comment also added a DOWNLOAD to the stats which is dl, by the way. Likewise, there is intricate interaction with our Slovenian pages all added into the stats which are a correct total but might also result from clicks and downloads on pages you are also displayed on but do not even read or think about... <br /> <br />So, average dl, is a bit like the popularity ratio - how many downloads per days it is up which appears under Skin Statistics or personal Skin statistics. You submit Monday, watch stats on Wednesday means up 3 days. When you view other or your own galleries you can sort by total downloads (over the years) or current popularity (what is downloaded most from current section or has best download ratio when held next to amount of days up) <br /> <br />Downloads itself is of course how often your submissions are downloaded, including by yourself. If you abuse this too much it becomes obvious and might be logged by some of the top admins. But some testing can even be good. AND it ALSO includes how often you download skins by OTHER users, I think. <br /> <br />In Top Author etc. ratings in left sidebar you also find MOST COMMENTED which I think is amount of comments your submissions get, not how often you comment others. <br /> <br />Found out all of this by myself, so I stand to be corrected by anyone who knows more and hope it still helps a bit without being able to give any guarantees. This any good? :car
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But can you spend the points at your local supermarket? LOL
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Errh. mine takes almost all I have, otherwise it would display more. In fact theres a site in Germany where you can send the points back and forth by donations - and they even have a marketplace for what you can buy with these points. Points cannot be bought with money, only traffic. Oh well. People worried about forged money - dont even have enough of that. Hey, this is more fun than supermarket. Admit I needed some fun, thanks!
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That helped.... I was just curious to know.. Thanks taxi and mickeblue :)
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Beautiful dreamer wake unto me .. starlight and dew drop are waiting for thee...... Is an AWESOME signature. Theres more in some other sections you might find out yourself. What I do next to paying the supermarket bill is, when I am curious what kind of user is commenting what with which words, instead of seeing when that person joined, I indirectly see by amount of points how long he is an active member when saying what he says. Then a short glimpse at what may be in a gallery or on an external homepage, I get an idea of why the comment is there in this wording at that moment. <br /> <br />Then I know when to respond or not and how plus understand the weight or section related to the statement (a newbie testing the comment system AND having many basic questions gets more fast link answers or tips and tolerance for mistakes, a member I know gets some weight for a different reason and I know - thats hyperactive TAXI in logons with only medium experience - thats a new admin - thats an artist winning ratings even on other sites saying this or that). <br /> <br />Even then we all have negative or positive, neutral experiences co associated to that downloader, uploader whatever. Or you see, what is downloaded most, why could that be. Do I like it myself? For admins another thing might be, oh.. good ratings, not many dls, we could feature it because of being overlooked. This happens often because of traffic dependent random factors influencing why suddenly good skins only stay in the latest section shortly and others longer, also resulting in different popularity stats. <br /> <br />Example server in maintenance late sunday night. Double amount of uploads Monday morning when up again, first five skins not displayed as long as last 5. Stats distorted - obvious in stats - reason for additional boosting measures. <br /> <br />The stats are thus not just for the admins and not just for the users and sort of try to help a bit for both which is always subject to improvement. A lot has been changed just recently - there is never a stop of course. Be patient right now and good luck with usage. Starlight for thou, I bow, maybe also for me, tee, hee

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Thank Taxi... Being a poet my self Steven Collins Foster is kin to me and that is one of my favorite poems.... I LOVE IT. I love it so much I carved that saying into the platform where my fireplace sits.... Around the front wrap I did some plaster work and wrote that in it :) I am a dreamer.............. <br /> <br />Thank again :) <br />And on the points thing. I recently switched names. I used to be LadyAmbrosia that name didnt suit me so i changed... I think I had 3000 some odd points in that nickname... LadyAmbrosia was a member since 2001.... OminousJune suits me soooooo much better LOL
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Outstanding fireplace + honesty then, points became privately useless when seeing what an unegotistically performed admin hobby could be like, funny when a name says honest al real estate inc., you know how it translates, many others with a enough distance to themselves have a way of going - scary crooked jerk - and that makes em honest. Wish I could make that into a poem of true quality in a jiffy... U seem to login the australian or night lovers way. Ill enjoy some ladylike ambrosia in a romantic moment 1 day. Refreshing ;) - proves judging by points can have more to do with inujuries than juries :sss :aw Meanwhile, life goes on anyway, oh well. :magic :o <br />
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You are to kind and insightful... Thanks for all the praise and comments taxi. :Happy
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