What are points and visits???

NaughtiusMaximus
NaughtiusMaximus Posts: 2,838 Forumite
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edited 18 February 2020 at 3:22PM in Site feedback and Forum Help
This has come up numerous times in numerous threads but, unless I've missed it, no-one from MSE has given an answer to the question.


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  • fire**fly
    fire**fly Posts: 148,056 Forumite
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    This has come up numerous times in numerous threads but, unless I've missed it, no-one from MSE has given an answer to the question.


    thanks NaughtiusMaximus   :D  loads of us wondering what the points/visits are & would be good to have someone who has an inkling or knows to let us know!  i've searched all the forum Q's & no answer anywhere that i can find  :|  
    please be a responsible pet owner & spay/neuter your pets, too many strays & not enough homes for them sadly. k2u58ioz4c8e.png




  • suki1964
    suki1964 Posts: 14,313 Forumite
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    I think visits are when someone has viewed your profile, haven't worked out the points as yet
  • ben501
    ben501 Posts: 668 Forumite
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    edited 19 February 2020 at 8:45AM
    Points = Thanks
    Or at least, if you get thanked, it increases your points total.
    Edit: Ain't Google wonderful?

    An engaged community is one where people are creating content and interacting with each other in a meaningful way. In Vanilla, reputation points are earned for participation and for creating content that is liked by others. When a member performs certain actions or receives praise, she is awarded reputation points and in some cases badges. For example, uploading a profile photo gives the member the Photogenic badge and ten points. Getting a positive reaction on a comment gives 1 point. Getting a negative reaction on a comment, such as 'off topic' takes a point away. If a moderator 'promotes' a comment, the member will receive 5 points. There are about a dozen actions that will trigger a badge award and close to 70 badges that can be earned.

    Maybe not a complete answer as 'points' allocation can probably be tweaked by forum admin, but then I doubt this will be a priority for MSE towers.
  • ben501
    ben501 Posts: 668 Forumite
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    And visits...

    When viewing a user's profile you can see a count of the number of times that they've visited and also the date that they were last active on the community. Visits are a bit of a fuzzy statistic that can't ever be 100% accurate because we have no true way of knowing if a person is sitting at the computer.

    If you are interested in knowing when a visit is calculated, in general a user had to be away from the site for at least 20 minutes. What away from the site means is determined by the following:

    1. If the user closes the site then they will be considered away from the site so the next time they browse to the site a new visit may be incremented.
    2. If the user leaves the site open they will be considered away if the site isn't in their active tab. This is to account for users that may have a long discussion open for more than 20 minutes. If you leave your browser open over night then you likely won't trigger a new visit.

    This methodology is a heuristic that tries to balance accuracy against the reality that people often leave browser tabs open for a very long time.




  • spadoosh
    spadoosh Posts: 8,732 Forumite
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    Visits is vists to your profile page. 

    From what ive garnered so far points are a culmination of thanks and badges. 

    Adding a profile picture gave me the badge 'photogenic' (or similar) and i thought, 10 points. A 'thanks' is 1 point. Theres something else which i havent worked out yet as in theory i should have 108 thanks points and assuming 10 points per badge 180 badge points so 288 points however my current points tally is on 260 so 18 more points than assumed and 18 badges, so maybe 9 points a badge? Or theres an error somewhere. 
  • fire**fly
    fire**fly Posts: 148,056 Forumite
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    thanks all  :) great help & interesting reading  👍

    please be a responsible pet owner & spay/neuter your pets, too many strays & not enough homes for them sadly. k2u58ioz4c8e.png




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