After registering you'll have the opportunity to earn points which we call "reputation" points. Think of reputation points as your digital street cred.
Right away you can earn 50 points after registering by confirming your email within an hour. After that, certain actions on the website will give you points. Here is a brief list of some ways to earn points:
These are not all of the ways that you'll be able to earn points and as we add new features adding new ways to reward points will be added as well.
Under certain situations we award badges to make the profiles of certain members stand out even further than just their reputation points count. What these badges are and the conditions under which we give out badges are left to be a mystery to figure out. There are 5 types of badges described below:
The more interactions you make on the website the more likely that you'll unlock a these badges.