Listal Points?

This is probably really far fetched, but having them eventually tie into on-line shopping or gift certificates or something would be amazing. Obviously, this would only work if you could get someone to sponser you like Amazon or another on-line retailer and donate them, etc. Otherwise, maybe after a certain point cut off you get access to editing database records to fix titles, etc.?

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I don't know what is up with these double posts. I swear I'm not trying to milk forum posting points.

Which reminds me; wasn't there a thread about points where Tom said he was going to add "adding product images" as a point-generator? Is that still on your list, Tom? As someone with not a lot of points, but who's added what feels like a ridiculous number of product images so that none of my items doesn't have one, I think that'd be swell. Unless, of course, it leads to abuse of the whole product image system, which would suck. Maybe if you make it just a few points each, it wouldn't be worth it to do it just for the points?

I'm sure I read somewhere recently that you only get them for lists specifically titled "favourite books", "favourite dvds" etc, and not for ones like "Favourite Doctor Who Novels". I can't find it in any of the old threads though so maybe I imagined it :|

I can verify that Tom recently said that the 100 points are only for the main favorites lists. However, what Richard A. Booth seems to be referring to is reviews, not lists. For that, I have no idea.

Oops, I completely misread what he put.

To make things more complicated, I just created a favorite games list (from the link in the points section) with 6 items and have not been rewarded 100 points after several hours. So on top of the review problem that Richard A. Booth wrote about I am now having a similar problem with favorite lists (which Dan initially thought Richard was talking about). However, to even further obfuscate everything, I have written 2 reviews today, both of which I was given my 50 points for immediately. Welcome to Bizarro world.

If your sorry means "I'm not following", I think he is saying that the point value for a given user is calculated each time you log in from scratch, rather than it being an existing number that gets added to each time you earn points. This (if I'm understanding it correctly) is pretty smart because (as Tom says) when he fixes the broken bit of code, everyone's points will fix themselves, basically, instead of him having to go back and add in everyone's missing values that should have been added while the script wasn't working properly. Did I get that right, Tom?

You can actually see how many points you need to move up in rank by clicking on "Browse Members" at the top of any screen and then choosing to sort by Listal Points and then update the list. By doing that, it looks like you need to get up to 4114 to pass anyone. Hope that helps.