What Does This Mean?

[electricaldoctor]

I've never really paid attention to these stats before.

Messages: returns the number of posts that you have made
Likes: returns the number of times that a particular post that you made was liked by others
Points: not really sure what this statistic is all about

 

[MonacoMike]

I've never really paid attention to these stats before.

Messages: returns the number of posts that you have made
Likes: returns the number of times that a particular post that you made was liked by others
Points: not really sure what this statistic is all about

Do not know of any great meaning. I do know that in 2019 Frank and I were both close to 500 likes from other members and now it is over 3000.

Points is a combination of likes and posts but was never really set up specifically for this forum when the software was installed.

 

[Halfhitch]

electricaldoctor, The way it works is, when you get to 500 points, you take your phone down to your favorite bar tender and show the points to him and tell him you're there for your free beer.

 

[b_arrington]

There are some versions of forum software that have "levels" according to stats like posts, likes, and other metrics. It was more widely used when forums were using community building and "gamification" to drive activity and good, highly valued responses. Users that whose posts garnered more positive praise from other users would get more points, and elevate their rank. Like jr member, member, sr. member, etc. I think you can see this more in THT's naming conventions. CSR didn't really activate this stuff.

When I was helping to build an internal Salesforce.com community for my company, the gamification community building strategy was recommended by our developer as a way to help build contact. People tend to like to get recognition for their contributions, so the "like" function and rankings helped drive the content. It was somewhat helpful.

My company has another forum for our dealer technical service people so they can help each other and get solutions. The rankings (geared by number of upvotes and downvotes) help identify the members that make valued and technically accurate contributions to the community, and therefore are more trusted on the platform. With a larger community, and one the people rely on to actually make their living, it works better and carries more weight than something like CSR.

 

[Halfhitch]

There are some versions of forum software that have "levels" according to stats like posts, likes, and other metrics. It was more widely used when forums were using community building and "gamification" to drive activity and good, highly valued responses. Users that whose posts garnered more positive praise from other users would get more points, and elevate their rank. Like jr member, member, sr. member, etc. I think you can see this more in THT's naming conventions. CSR didn't really activate this stuff.

When I was helping to build an internal Salesforce.com community for my company, the gamification community building strategy was recommended by our developer as a way to help build contact. People tend to like to get recognition for their contributions, so the "like" function and rankings helped drive the content. It was somewhat helpful.

My company has another forum for our dealer technical service people so they can help each other and get solutions. The rankings (geared by number of upvotes and downvotes) help identify the members that make valued and technically accurate contributions to the community, and therefore are more trusted on the platform. With a larger community, and one the people rely on to actually make their living, it works better and carries more weight than something like CSR.

Free beer is better.