KEO says she recently converted to CASH. From another article, each point is worth approximately 1.6 cents, but dollars are only whole dollars, so it requires 62.5 points to make a whole dollar. Maybe, if my calculator calculations are correct. The fact that KEO might not be featured as prominently in the lists of top contributors could help explain why she doesn't see the same level of points awarded. The fact that more people are getting viewed by more people is generally a good thing. Except perhaps for KEO and a handful of other people who were regularly among the most active commenters, most prolific publishers, or whatever the old categories were.
If the points value has to do with the numbers of visitors to pages, and your prominent location is no longer as prominent, then yes, it might make sense that your points awarded might be less.
Remember folks, points are just a way that Tom has of helping foster community. Sharing in ad based revenue generation, or whatever you wish to call the particular model.
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Each point is about $.02 per point currently apparently.
FAQ:
http://www.gather.com/faqs.jsp?cat=gatherpoints
Don't know how to make links in comments.
I emailed David Cooperstein to ask if there were any changes in the point system and he said he was not aware that any changes have been made.
Magi
I'm only interest in what I want to look at and to post and comment on.
Points! What are they?
I never look at them.
I don't even know how to look for, say all the 6 point ratings.
Or even why I would want to view the ratings?
The information's what's important, not the ratings.
Can I just select those, as they seem to me to have a more interesting aspect to them than the 10 ratings which seem to me just to be the feel good issues and of no importance to me at all.