Forum Updates

[Paul G]

We are adding and updating some features to the forums. This update will add many new features to the site and fix some of the ones that haven't worked in awhile.

This includes a long over due update to Points. You will have many new ways to earn points and use your points!

Unfortunately this does mean that you will loose your current points. We apologize for that inconvenience, but hope this new system will be worth it!

Here is more information about the updates.

Points
Earn points in up to 50 different ways
Easier ways to track and view points
Points trading
User to User Gifts with points
Shop to spend your points

Activity Awards
Earn badges and awards for forum activities.
Earn Achievements

Tagging
Now when you mention another user, you can tag them.
You'll be notified of posts that mention you.

We are installing the new updates today. It may take a few days to get everything setup.

Thanks for your patience and support.

Hope you enjoy the updates!

Credits are the new points. They are what you are used to in our old points system.

Here is how you earn credits:
Birthday - 100
Add a Friend - 5
Paycheck each week - 10
Post a Poll - 5
New Post - 5
Rate a Thread - 1
Referral - 100
Transfer Credits - 1
Vote on Poll - 1
Join the site - 100
Someone posts a reply to your thread - 2
Use Tags - 1
Read a Thread - 1
Your Thread is read - 1
Starting a discussion in a group - 3
Discussion started in your group - 1
Create a New Group - 3
Join a Group - 2
Someone joins a Group you started - 1
Post in a group discussion - 1
Someone else posting in your group discussion - 1
Posting a visitor message on a profile - 2
Someone else giving you a visitor message on your profile - 1
Sending a private message - 1
Someone else viewing your profile - 1
Viewing a profile - 1
Adding an album image - 3
Applying a profile image - 5
If your thread become sticky - 10


Points determine your level. Here is how you earn points:
Points for Posts - 2
Points for Posts (Own Threads) - 1
Points for Threads - 5
Points for Thread Ratings Given - .5
Points for Thread Ratings Received - .5
Points for Visitor Messages (Given) - 1
Points for Visitor Messages (Received) - 1
Points for Polls Posted - 5
Points for Poll Votes - 2
Points for Confirmed Friends - 5
Points for Reputation (Given) - .00000001 (This is multiplied by your rep)
Points for Reputation (Received) - .00000001
Points for Referrals - 10
Points for Social Group Messages - 1
Points for Social Group Discussions - 2.5
Points for Days Registered - .1
Points for Blogs - 10
Points for Blog Comments - 2
Points for Mentions Given - .5
Points for Mentions Received - .5
Points for Tags Given - .5
Points for Tags Received - .5

[Eagle Plumes]

I like the idea of gifting, that will be fun :)

[Paul G]

I like the idea of gifting, that will be fun :)

Thanks

[wardancer]

I hate the fact that we're losing our current points....A lot of us have worked hard posting and earning those points and hanging onto them thru several updates , losing them and earning them back . Now we have to do it all over again.....

[Toolbox]

Wow, there is so much data to track now, LOL. New points don't bother me at all, especially if we can actually do things with them now.

[Paul G]

Wow, there is so much data to track now, LOL. New points don't bother me at all, especially if we can actually do things with them now.

Working on setting that part up now. Got a couple of things there.

[yaahl]

I hate the fact that we're losing our current points....A lot of us have worked hard posting and earning those points and hanging onto them thru several updates , losing them and earning them back . Now we have to do it all over again.....

Well if it makes you feel any better, I really did appreciate you and JD sending me 6 million credits...easy come easy go...now for the third time... I'd like that arcade pass... I have a certain someone to beat at Mahjong...lol

[Toolbox]

Obligatory creep post of the night:

"You left out eSnag..." LOL!

[Paul G]

Obligatory creep post of the night:

"You left out eSnag..." LOL!

Not sure if that is coming back.

[Paul G]

I hate the fact that we're losing our current points....A lot of us have worked hard posting and earning those points and hanging onto them thru several updates , losing them and earning them back . Now we have to do it all over again.....

Yes, sorry about that.

Even if I could make it work, there were billions of points on the boards. Any new system just wouldn't work with that much out there.

[Paul G]

Well if it makes you feel any better, I really did appreciate you and JD sending me 6 million credits...easy come easy go...now for the third time... I'd like that arcade pass... I have a certain someone to beat at Mahjong...lol

You can't play in the arcade now?

[Toolbox]

I was only kidding, lol.

[Eagle Plumes]

all the new stuff is keen

[yaahl]

You can't play in the arcade now?

Yes, I can play in the arcade. It was just that before the big crash I had finally got to the 10k points to buy an arcade pass. When we came back on line I had to start over and mentioned it... then JD and Wardancer gave me credits to buy a pass... was just about to try to buy one and we're starting over ...lol... this new scheme seems way more fun...looking forward to using it.

[wardancer]

Well if it makes you feel any better, I really did appreciate you and JD sending me 6 million credits...easy come easy go...now for the third time... I'd like that arcade pass... I have a certain someone to beat at Mahjong...lol

Yeah yeah yeah.....better go look.....I just set a new high in that one ! LOL