What are points ?

I always see beside people's avatar it says points how do you get them and what do they do ?

Points my freind have had a long history here in this forum. They used to be the same as your post count, and for a while used as currency. Now with the whole site upgraded few know of their worthiness.

yes *sighs*, I remember when I had points. Now they're about as important as pencil shavings :(

They used to give the option to buy certain... stuff in the online store (like color for your name, or a new avatar) Anyway, since the latest upgrades all the points are removed and the option for the point is (If I'm not mistaking :P) still unknown.

Anyway, I am pretty sure points are clearly explained in one of the FAQ's here somewhere. You might want to read that first ;)

They are just improving the point system. Points will come in time, but right now you guys have to think that post are points.. They changed the point system, becouse someone spammed like couple of thousand smiles and got points for that.. And why someone has already points? I dunno..

As for the users who already had points, the answer is that they just posted enough just after the upgrade was done, or they edited their points, if they were admins... however there is other ways to get points, too.

Ya everyone with points is an admin (i think)

there was this one guy who had 100,000 points and posted a question, 'why cant i get custom avatar?' I told him he was a hacker for having all those points. I looked in the store and he didn't show up as most rich. Weird! Im not kidding u either.

Yeah.. I also saw a guy having about 100,000 points on the top 3 list..

Thats twice as much as Draco had in 2 years...

Yes it is.. That must be somekind of mistake..

I've only seen admins with points :\ but hey, what do I know?

omfg, u new ppl....recently, this site has gone through an upgrade....all of us lost all our points..., the admins started off w/ their own points cause they're in charge

the only way u can get points now is to contribute to the forum w/ ur skins/models/icons/maps, anything u can do....

I have seen guys contributing to those sections, but none of them got points..

albino, thats because its not reenabled yet.

Mods, project leaders, and admins get points for now to test features.