A small change in points and stars

Hello,

We have changed the way points and "contribution" stars are given to users when posting.

Posts in the "Games" forum no longer count towards points in your profile. Posts in that forum also do not count towards the gold "contribution" stars -- a star is awarded for every year that you've been active in our community, but your posts in the "Games" forum do not contribute to that. Some of you may have lost a star, due to posting exclusively on the Games forum.

Try to keep in mind, that this is a therianthropy forum. While we all have friends here and like to play games with them -- which you may continue to do unhindered, the purpose of this forum is to further our understanding of therianthropy, whether personal or common and the games we play, contribute nothing to that end.

In fairness, I've done a recount of all the points you have gained by posting on our forums, so that the points top ten list now contains our top 10 members by their contributions on the forums, fairly and squarely, no admin hacks and no cheats.

Thanks for understanding.

LP,
Dusty

Hello,

As loosing stars may be a bit of a downer for some, I've decided to take this opportunity to also introduce a new feature: Silver stars!

A silver star is awarded for each 200 distinct days that you've been active on the shoutbox. In other words, if you're more of a shoutbox person, you'll get silver stars instead of gold ones.

LP,
Dusty

Note that the 'richest' people, the numbers of points are the total they've gained throughout, not what they currently have. ^^

(2021-10-13 13:55)Bubbles Wrote:  Note that the 'richest' people, the numbers of points are the total they've gained throughout, not what they currently have. ^^

More accurately, it is the richest members by points spent. So if you have a lot of points but never spend them, you don't end up on the list.

Obviously this is done to discourage stockpiling of points, because it causes inflation and screws with the economy.

LP,
Dusty