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Chris Maunder wrote: your points are now correct
Hmm. My reputation tab is 200 author points short of my about tab. Never seen so large a difference.
BTW: the recalculation was real quick, I never noticed; maybe also because I was away most of the day...
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It is being run again, the Participant points were scooted.
I pointed this out to #1 and he is redoing from start.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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You posted that while I was posting mine below. Hope I get some back! 
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I am hoping to gain circa 1000 points!
It will make a big difference.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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You'd better stop posting in Lounge, you've already lost 3000 debator points today.
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A discrepancy between the numbers on two different tab pages will not get solved by running things again, it seems indicative of a bug somewhere.
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No, the problem was that the total is incorrect.
I am currently at 1981 points.
Given that there is 1000 for MVP, plus my daily ones for signing in and my weekly fives for surveys, it means all the points I should have accrued for comments on the other fora are uncounted.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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Comments don't exist in forums; "general" replies in programming forums, and all replies in non-programming forums yield debator points. And as Chris already pointed out, signing in wasn't logged for years.
BTW: The FAQ says "A member receives points for posting a new comment." Makes me wonder how they determine the newness. Some people post lots of "good answer" messages wherever they can.
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If I make a comment on a reply in the Q&A I am supposed to get a participation point.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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yes. This has worked before.
And I don't really agree, if a comment-like reply in a forum yields debator or authority points, why would it yield points in a different category for Q&A? Look at the different ways to get participant points, posting a comment simply does not fit in that list.
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So sounds like Participant points is right now. But they still didn't updated the comments points to any category.
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How to gain Participant points...
MVP, 1000 points once a year maybe.
Newsletter opt in, 50 points, once only.
Sign-up, 100 points, once only.
Daily sign-in, 1 point, once a day.
Weekly Survey,5 points, once a week.
The only other way shown to get points is Post Comment, 1 point for the comment, up to 25 a day.
It is this one that I am not getting awarded.
I understand that if I post an answer, then I am rewarded for that answer, but as I am commenting on a particular Subject or article, that is a participation within that subject.
EG, If I edit, and get the edit points, and then leave a reason for my edit, (which I think is the correct procedure), then I have participated.
That ought to give the point as a particpant point, not a debator point, for there was nodebate, but merely information provided as to why I have improved the thing I edited.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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yes, posting a comment should be rewarded.
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I don't know whether "post comment in Q&A" actually gets rewarded at all right now, I stay well away of Q&A.
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My point is: all contributions to participation, except "post comment in Q&A", are of a more macroscopic nature. Everything one reads. posts, replies, comments, votes, bookmarks, could be construed as participation but isn't, why would "posting a comment" be then? It really should yield debator or authority points, nothing else.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: It really should yield debator or authority points, nothing else.
Better Authority points because It is related to the Q/A(Which is calculating in Authority points too).
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IMO it should be consistent with how the forums are handled.
And yes too many replies are called "general" and awarded debator points there, I have had a couple of discussions with Chris about that already. It starts with the default "message type"; it could easily be improved, it may be hard to get it (almost) right though.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: And yes too many replies are called "general" and awarded debator points there,
Yeah it should be included in Authority points.
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How can clarifying a question be an Authority Point?
Answering it, yes, but to inform that an action has been taken is participation.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
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Only in technical forums DD. Also I have seen many answers/links in general message, that's why.
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See Mr Maunder's response below.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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Yeah, You win. So when we will get back our platinum participant?
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When I awake, hopefully!
Off to bed.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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Have Sweat dreams DD  .
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As I said, it is not a debate, it is an improvement nut not an answer.
So it cannot be Debator Points, and it cannot be Authority Points.
But the participation is still there.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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posting "please clarify" or "good answer" in a programming forum yields debator points (assuming message type "general").
posting "Elvis has died" or a CCC clue in the Lounge yields debator points.
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What else could comments be? As Dave pointed out, a comment on an answer is not necessarily a contribution that adds to the answer, nor is it (always) a debate, a question, or (necessarily) organisation.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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