Sidewards Glance

I will try and catch up with DR and Maskedavatar.

EXCELLENT goal setting, ilovepizza!

Watch for the shifting goalposts.....

MA,

I do have to wonder... since you no long have anything to complain about regarding points, what will your complaint du jour be now???

And there's me, patiently saving up for 2500 so I can have a custom BG picture,

Yeah, but you would have had that point count already if you hadnt spent some to get the BG color!

Ah, the trials and tribulations of the ATS Store.....just like a real shop, you always want what you can't afford. But I guess you don't have that problem, eh

It'll take time, but, I have nothing to spend points on now, so I am going to aim high and see if I can hit the 50k mark too.

I seriously am starting to think that some of us are 'boosted users'..

I for one keep getting these points, i dont know from where..

I have got today about 2000, and i have not really done anything..

[Edited on 19-9-2003 by FULCRUM]

Maybe one of the admins felt like giving you points. Unlikely but it could happen.

Maskedavatar you can post more than DR!!!! GO MA

Ok i was just trying to give you support MA. I do not think you have a chance of beating DR though. Maybe if you post 100 posts a day.

Originally posted by ilovepizza
Maybe one of the admins felt like giving you points. Unlikely but it could happen.

This really isnt the case, i have posted by myself, and also people have posted to my topics.. it has just been so slow day.. nothing much happening here..

But soon i shall see if MA:s speculations about 25k 'hyper drive' are true.. or not..

Hrmmm this is very interesting

Is there anyone here that truly understands how points are calculated?

Please can they give insight to those in the dark?

First and FOREMOST, upon completion of a devout regimen of fasting and meditation I have decided that Masked Avatar in, in FACT, NOT Simon...

Second... The points system here at ATS is derived from the same model that promulgates the "Fair Isacson Compilation Observation" or "FICO Score" as it is called in the biz lingo. This is also known as your "Credit Score" which has almighty powers over your life IF you live in the U.S. Powers that can either get you that dream job or deny you that dream job.

You talk about a CONSPIRACY!!!!!! Here's one that affects our EVERYDAY lives (again, US only) that NOBODY can detail!

The original programmers of the "observation" are at a LOSS to explain to Federal regulators how someone's "score" is promulgated!!!! In an attempt to make it "hack proof" they instilled some sort of artificial intelligence into the code and it took off on its OWN tragectory!

SERIOUS! the ONLY thing ANYBODY knows for sure is what REDUCES your score!

The governing powers here at ATS decided this was the BEST option for ATS POINT calculations because it obliterated ANY possibility of the Transvestite from Wylie, Tx messing with the currency! (ALL of this post that applies to ATS is B.S. Of course but the F.I.C.O. stuff is TRUE!)

PEACE...
m...

So consuming lowers your score,
unless you get the boot.
what happens if you hit 100,000 or dare I say it 1,000,000 points?

Is it better to have points or posts?

What is the relationship?

Will you be able to buy a mod position in time?

How about pay bribes?

Would you be able to buy other members or their names or avatars?

We are entering into uncharted territory here.

Quote from a highly respected Moderator, on an unrelated Contest Topic:


"Due to the point system that is currently being used, do we wee mods get to compete or is this members only?

Only asking so as to clear things a little, I could personally care less. Dragon stole those points, but it was fair and square..."

"Conspiracy" indeed.....
especially since MA, in a relative short time after making this topic, quickly 'rolled' to the current status in ATS Points: 58435.........

regards
seekerof

[Edited on 26-9-2003 by Seekerof]

seekerof

"Bankrolled" that is.

I can account for every one.

And I didn't even get full credit for both piccies that I put up to be used as graphics in the masthead of the page! I am generous to a fault.

MA - join a poetry research project. You rack up mad points crazy fast.

From afar, my thoughts spin
From deep within, the embers glow
Potential of thoughts that have been
Core Dump, watch my points grow!