Pixeldawg1
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- Aug 14, 2020
- Messages
- 364
- Reaction score
- 275
- Location
- Suzhou, China
- Website
- www.facebook.com
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- Photos NOT OK to edit
The point to my particularly persistent pestering pertaining to points is that there is no "official" explanation as what they are for, who gives them out, and what the overall significance of them is. I personally envision a little old man in a swept-away room in a dank basement with a gigantic book that he sweeps through long page after long page, and if he finds something you have done or said that is point-worthy, he gets on his 286 Intel with 4mb of RAM and a 128mb Hard drive and 1MB video card and hits that "point" button next to your name (ALL in DoS, of course...). The entire process takes hours, I am sure, particularly on that 28.8 modem...
In all seriousness, they don't serve a purpose. I've been around since 2013 and and I can't remember a time when the points meant anything. My guess is that it's basically a vestigial tail. It likely was some kind of system of giving out different levels of 'trophies' to encourage people to post. I don't know how many software changes there might have been since the form started - there's been one since I joined - but it's probably a feature that got carried over to the new system and then just sat there, being all useless and bored.
Of course, your vision of the little Wizard of Oz behind the TPF curtain with his fancy machinery is also a viable explanation.
Ah, thanks for that. Basically, you are saying there's not point to the points. So, next question, what's the point in showing them? Just to drive OCD people like me nuts, I suppose???