What are points?

On my forum, I see this thing ojn the Admin Panel that tells me how many points I have. What are points, how do I get them and what's the use of having them? I'm confused.

I don't really understand what they are either. I think they have something to do with how many posts and members you have. Something like that. I'm guessing it is a way to rank your forum against other forums through forumotion within the same category. That is the best thing I can come up with. This is different from buying points, which you control under your points management, those can be used to purchase a domain or more gallery space.

There are two types of points:
Directory points(Which are in the Homepage of the admin panel and are automatically given for new members registering, posts. topics. These points help your forum on the Forumotion directory. The more points you have, the higher your forum ranking will be. These point scan also decrease if you delete members,posts, topics)
The other type are your Forum points which can be found in admin panel=>Misc=>Points Management=>Configuration. You can also buy points from there by clicking on the "Buy points" button. The only way you can obtain these type of points is to buy them. If you have enough points you will be able to expand the capacity of the Gallery of your forum, Buy a personalized domain name, use template editing.

Alright! Thanks a bunch!

You're welcome

how do you buy those points? by money?

dencey wrote:how do you buy those points? by money?

Yeah, you can purchase them through paypal. Just go to admin panel->misc->points management then there is a link that says buy points. Then just follow the steps from there.