points?,spammer?,like? etc

romanstar

Been on here a while now and its a brilliant place thanks Hew.But one thing i dont understand is along a persons username you have visits etc etc then you have 'points'? and under that you have 'like' 'spammer' etc etc What exactly does these things mean?

samiam391

All of these features were added by Vanilla which is the site that hosts these forums.

Likes- You can like someone's post/comment. Every time someone likes a post/comment of yours, you get +1.
Spam- Someone can also mark your post for spam. If I'm not mistaken, when a post is marked as spam the moderators are alerted. Similar to likes, you get +1 every time someone marks a comment/post as spam.
Points- A feature that Vanilla added. Essentially, the same as likes. Every time you get a like, you get a point. It was added after the like feature though, so you'll have more likes than points.

That's the general idea at least.

Pitfall69

http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussion/11024/what-are-these-points-that-have-suddenly-turned-up#latest

Pitfall69

@samiam391 will lead you to believe that the points mean nothing. This, of course, happened when I passed him on the points list ;)

romanstar

Thanks guys.I still havent got a clue.lol.Think i'll just leave it and try quantum mechanics,it looks easier ;-)

samiam391

Pitfall69 said:

@samiam391 will lead you to believe that the points mean nothing. This, of course, happened when I passed him on the points list ;)

@Pitfall69 - I'm only 1,300 behind. Watch your back.

plasmodium

romanstar said:

Thanks guys.I still havent got a clue.lol.Think i'll just leave it and try quantum mechanics,it looks easier ;-)

Don't worry. Basically, they don't matter. They just count up how many times someone has 'liked' or marked as spam a post you made. It doesn't really mean anything. Unless you have a personal rivalry going on like the clowns above. ;-)

TarDomo

If you get a spam vote you get -1 point I think.

Pitfall69

TarDomo said:

If you get a spam vote you get -1 point I think.

Yeah, @samiam391 decided to flag me when I was getting ready to pass him ;)

TarDomo

^ so simple but so fun
But now u gotta be extra careful, the conspiracy knows what to do to get your points down. :smile: