My ActiveRain Points. Where did they go to?

According to Jeremy who works at AR, there was a new algorithm change or programming fix that re-calculated a lot of user's points.

You might have been one of them.

What I'm pissed off about is the fact NOBODY at AR said anything about this on their Website. Nobody here was informed. If they did, somebody needs to send me to the page (URL) and I'll be happy to eat some "Humble Pie."

Just this past Saturday, just as I was about to make my post that would have put me past the 30,000 point milestone -- I rudely found discovered that I was not at the 30,090 points (where I should have been), but was penalized and dropped down to 27,420.

What the f****?

So I naturally jumped on a few AR staffers. Nobody but Jeremy was the only one who responded with the explanation. Thank you Jeremy. Tell Bob and Chris I'm still pissed off at them and they both owe me a steak dinner next time I'm town.

According to AR's Jeremy, too many of us have earned points by EDITING our posts and well, saving them again. A small bug apparently existed in ActiveRain's website here.

The most disturbing part is that the HUGE 600 point benefit many of us could get by posting AR links to other websites is no longer worth anything. Zero. Zilch. Nada. I spoke to several AR members in New Mexico about that, and they've been like me... blindly pasting in the code to other sites and wondering where their 600 point bonuses went to.

Here: See for yourself. You go to the Link to Active Rain, and is there ANY mention you DON'T get 600 points? No. So I'm demanding they UPDATE this so all can see. Since this change was done several months ago, I am going to state publicly about this here so you know and so you can inform others. Apparently nobody at AR bothered to make that change which I feel is a crappy way to let us all think we STILL get points that way.

Here is what you earn, according to Jeremy.

1.) You earn 225 points for every post you make. Which to me, penalizes many AR members. Especially those of us who WRITE and inform, educate others with How To helpful guides. There are some REALTORS here who I have called out on the carpet for copying content and pasting it here. This shows no special talent whatsoever except that you can demonstrate basic Copy + Paste computer skills. Nothing special about that, but those who DO this earn 225 points per article regardless.

There are smart programmers out here. I'm just wondering why some of them aren't employed by AR. Because earning 225 points for copying and pasting when compared to someone else, who writes to inform, educate, or inspire others is a real slap in the face. No wonder our teachers in the public school systems are not very well paid. It's that kind of mentality that stinks to high heaven of indifference.

Real Estate EDUCATORS and LEADERS need to be compensated better.

My suggestion to AR Staffers would be to re-arrange the AR point scoring system per article to the following below:

- Copying and Pasting content (and word smithing it) to paste on AR: 25 points

- Writing original works, designed to EDUCATE other AR members. Like how to use Twitter. FaceBook, SEO, etc. 225 points.

- Posting a listing that is YOURS. 75 points

- Posting a listing that is NOT yours but have permission to post anyway: 50 points

Jeremy says we get POINTS for inviting others (they have NOT removed that, thank God) and you also get points for their blogging, too. But what that point score system has not yet been revealed to the Bartman.

So when I know... you will know.

- bart