Can I throw in a related question? What happens when you "rate this post"? What are the ratings for? What do they mean? 

Why do some posts offer 4 stars and others have 5?

for everything! Sorry the response has been so slow, but I've been flying back and forth and won't be home until Wednesday.

If you get 75,000 points you get a date with Matthew Rhys! How cool is that? Okay, seriously, the points are just a way for folks to be able to see who is most active on the site. I believe you get five points for responding to another post or comment and ten points for starting a forum topic. Oh, and fifty points for saying what an amazing editor I am. (YOu hear that, Brian?) Eventually, we'd like to link them up to categories ala TWOP's Channel Surfer, Couch Potato, etc. Maybe folks can suggest categories that reflect different levels of involvement. I think Flying Monkey should be the highest level.

I forgot to explain that answer. For some reason the fifth star doesn't show up when you're just looking at the screen, but if you hover your cursor over where the fifth star should be, it suddenly appears. Why? Well, um, it's a, hmm...I got no good answers for that one.

Does calling people out on crap lower your karma and kissing a$$ raise it?

Michael,

You answered the question about the points, those are relatively self-explanatory. However what about Karma? What affects that catagory?

 

Justin

out of town!