Points, Badges and Ranking

Points: Activities within the community are assigned a point value. When you participate within the community your actions can contribute or deduct from your overall profile points.

Activities that contribute to your points include submitting appropriate content, including comments, writing blogs, posting to the forums, uploading photos and videos, and a whole bunch of other actions. Views of your profile and your blogs by other members also count towards your overall points.

Activities that deduct points from your total include having comments, blog posts, messages, forum posts, photos or videos deleted. The penalties can be large so please adhere to the community standards.

Badges and Ranking: As you accumulate points you attain higher rankings and new badges.