I know PF has some exciting plans for the point system at the beta site because I have seen several messages from them hinting around about it. I was wondering if we could give PF some feedback as to what we would like to spend points on, and what we think should earn us points. A lot of people will have great ideas that you might want to consider.  :)
 
Obviously, it would be awesome if you could save up enough points to purchase a PF game or get a significant discount off of a game.
 
I think you could make some special PF avatars that cost points. Different levels of course with different games and there could be some really hard to get avatars you could work toward by answering questions, logging in daily, etc. Maybe that is what medals are, but the avatars are more visible. Maybe animated avatars???  I love animated avatars and would gladly spend points for one.
 
Maybe you should award points for posts. Alot of sites do that.  Maybe we could get 5 points for every 3 posts made in a one week period?  Just some food for thought...I am sure the pros and cons will have to be weighed.
 
What other things could we either get points awarded for doing OR use the points to purchase to make the experience more fun for everyone? :)
 
 

I think there is an echo in here! LOL   I know someone has some good ideas for what we could spend points on right?

Receiving points for posts, regardless of what the scale is, would be disastrous for the forums.

i hope they do away with the points. not many posters like
the idea. it will cause a problem. i do not want to buy
avatars. i like the ddhh avatars we are able to
change. i also agree with alevy1974.
 
 

i also wanted to add that playfirst has alway been unique.
i hope that they don't become like every other website.
change is needed, but not to much. just my opinion.  :)

Kel - I agree with you that it would be awesome if accumulated points could "buy down" the cost of a PF game!

Although others didn't agree, I think it would be fun to be able to customize an avatar through purchasing accessories with points.

I don't have any of my own original ideas of uses for points though - I'm not a very creative type!

My only worry with points is that it will lead to all kinds of "junk" posting just to boost points scores. I guess that is why they charge points for asking questions, to make sure that someone really has a real question before asking.

how do you get more points?

Hi apemg,

There is a link somewhere explaining about the points system.  I think you have to click on the link What are Tips? when you log into the site.

But to explain it briefly, you earn points in the Tips section:

+5 points for answering a question
+2 points for someone voting your answer as the best
+1 point for voting for a best answer
+30 points for having your answer voted as the best.
-10 points for asking a question

Does anybody know how u use your points u get to get things?? How do u spend them??
Please let me know . You can email me at LindsKenn@msn.com

i think it would be great if we could use our points to upload our own avatar/icon/picture- as long as they are not sexual, intimidating, threatening, frightening or discriminatory.
 
how do we use points to customize our playfirst experience/webpage? thx.