Just a note on the lack of points

Question

Since the points have gone away, its nice to see more new respondents posting instead of the familiar gang, at least in two of forums that i hang out in anyway.
Now a new post may sit for a while, and empty of responses entice the intrepid to offer an answer, that otherwise is closed off when already populated by responses.
This is how everyone starts, so its good to see 'fresh faces' getting a turn.
Just from casual observation from this 'error' or experiment, whichever it is, there still seems to be the same number of answered questions, (about 5 or 6 per non-current page) suggesting little adverse effect.
regards roam

Answer 1

Before you joined (according to your Profile), there was a period of nearly two years where each post earned its poster one point.
What Rachel is saying is that in those days, many, many people threw up a bunch of cr4p to earn points and gain levels without actually contributing anything to the knowledge base.
Many of those people are still with us today, residing at levels they'd arrived at more quickly than they might have if points had always been a product of the quality of one's help.
Try as I might, I haven't come up with a way to level the playing field (as it were). And there really isn't a way of penalizing people who at one or another point in the past have attempted to game the system.
At this point (and earlier on, as well), the only real way to attempt to gauge the worth of one participant in these forums or another is to compile points-to-posts ratios for each member. There are problems with that, though, because there have been many occasions when the mass of the membership has had either or both their post counts and point totals radically adjusted for the sake of tweaks to the system(s).
My suggestion is that you keep doing what you do. Your points to posts ratio is very decent and if you keep it up like that (and Level 4 status is what you're actually after here, because there's very little chance that they'll scrap the 'reputation' system anytime soon) you'll get your next 2100 points even more quickly than your last 2100.
Good luck!