A New Way to Recognize Our Most Active Members
Today, we installed a new system on the CrossLeft site aimed to recognize and reward our most active participants. You will notice that on the side menu you have a total accumulation of what we're calling points, for lack of a better term. That accumulation of points is since the beginning of CrossLeft, now over 3 years ago. On the home page you'll also notice a running tally on the right side bar of those who have accumulated points.
Each month, we'll send book of the month to the person who has the most points as a recognition of their participation in building the CrossLeft community and Progressive Christian movement.
Blog - 5 points
Discussion board post - 3 points
Comment - 3 points
Invite - 10 points
Accepted Invite - 10 points
Event - 10 points
Quote - 5 points
Classified - 10 points
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Comments
Excellent idea
Steve,
Absolutely divinely inspired. I think it has great merit, once, of course, the kinks are worked out. I've no comments to make on the scoring system.
Rich
good questions
let me see if i can answer.
all past posts will show up in your points total. you should see that on side menu.
The recognition for most active members is as of yesterday moving forward.
Invite is using the invite feature to invite other progressive Christians and other interested folks. There's a link on the side menu.
Another source of "points"
Although it wasn't included in the list, we also get points for Quotes that we post -- 5 points, just like a blog entry.
This means that if you are competing for the monthly book prize or are otherwise just an over-competitive striver, you can pile up points by posting loads of quotes. Will we be seeing end-of-the-month Quotation Wars?
I suggest awarding fewer points for quotes than for blogs. The effort involved is not comparable. Maybe 1 point? I'm willing to give up 8, or more, of the 10 points I unexpectedly racked up yesterday.
I got those 10 points for posting a couple of I.F. Stone quotes. He was my favorite journalist back in the 50s and 60s, and I had just seen a C-Span program celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth, so I was moved to check the source of his most famous single quote, "all governments lie..." and found it. And I found another good one, so I posted that, too. Check them out on my quote page.
Suggestion: there should be a general link from the home page to Quotes, rather than finding them only after going to a particular person's quotes.
If you don't know about I.F. Stone, you should look him up. I was an early, perhaps charter, subscriber to his little 4-page weekly newsletter, after the leftist newspapers he wrote for all folded and he became a journalistic pariah and unemployable due to McCarthyism and being hounded by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. (Harvard will now be awarding I.F. Stone prizes, with a medal, for investigative reporting.)
I.F. Stone and Lifetime points
I recently discovered I.F.Stone and he was a very courageous man. I bought a book, The Best of I.F. Stone, at Barnes and Noble, a couple of weeks ago that Bill might be interested in. It's edited by Peter Osnos and it's a collection of articles from his newsletter and the Nation.
The points system sounds like fun. What are lifetime points?
more on points
hi Angelo,
Lifetime points are the points earned since the inception of the site. You can see that list here: http://www.crossleft.org/?q=userpoints or on your profile for yourself.
good suggestion
Bill,
Great suggestion on points allocation for quotes...I had put it higher because a lot of folks don't use or even know we have a place where we can post the quotes that most speak to us. If we get some use, let's bring the point total back down for that.
As for a quotes link...great idea. Let me see what I can do on that.
Points for quotes
According to the points table, you've bumped the number of points for Quotes from 5 up to 10. Did you mean to do that? (I have hundreds of signature lines I've been saving up. Stop me before I quote again......)
you are right
i haven't changed anything its 5 for quotes...editting post now.
favorite quotes
Which just reminds me again how much I can learn about people just by reading the quotes they save as favorites.
(makes me worry now if I've saved any quotes that will be a little TOO illuminating)
So How does this work?
How does this work? I had 14 blog posts in March or 16 blogs in the last 30 days?I am not in the tally though. Is it automatically tabulated, do you tabulate, or do will tabulate oursleves? I don't know how many replys I made.What constitutes an invite?