by travis_cooper April 9th 2008, 7:09 pm
There are two different points that are used. One, which you see from the admin panel home page, is based on members, and activity, so number of topics and posts, this is used to rank your site among the other sites in the same category. If you don't care about your ranking in the forumotion directory than these points probably don't matter much to you. The other points are points you purchase that can be used to increase your gallery size, or purchase a domain, etc. You don't have to purchase points to keep your site going, just to add these additional features.