Top 10 Members!

If it is drawing people in, it mnight not be a bad thing - even encouraging people to read the forums and articles

In the case I was hinting at, three year old posts and other obscure things is not akin to encouraging participation.

I agree that sometimes I'm not aware of content until someone I'm following has liked, or commented, so yes its helpful .... sometimes.

I do like and share on most other social platforms. I often don't want to comment as I think the discussion is sufficiently large already.

It depends what you mean by content. If it is drawing people in, it mnight not be a bad thing - even encouraging people to read the forums and articles

Well put genebren That sums up my participation - I don't click on likes on any other  forum, but here it adds to the forum's momentum, which I would like to encourage.

Content creation doesn't directly generate points proportional to effort, but I do get a big bump in spin-off points whenever I publish some content. If your content is good it generates more points - more comments and more likes.

The points system does not favour content creators.

Sadly that is true.

We've seen meteroic rises with no content at all.

Mark

changing your icon to be a minion is a big factor on whether you make it into the top 10 too

Haha ... it ended up the other way around, we changed afterwards for other reasons.

It is true that the Top 10 are also TM's, but there are plenty of others elsewhere in the list as well.

Mark

Ha ha May be we should try changing ours to Minions! No just kidding.

When I started this conversation my mind was concentrating on points. It has changed after few valuable comments in this discussion. Yes that’s true points don’t mean prizes. Thanks for sharing your perspective.

Hi!

It varies from time to time, for instance me and mcb1 have periods where the gap narrows or increases, depending on which one of us is on hols

But anyway "points don't mean prizes"* but just a nice personal scoring thing I feel, since we all started at different times.. i..e. you can watch your number go up, and more activity speeds it up, but no point comparing since it doesn't result in anything, and everyone is more active and effective that others in at least one thing! For example the list of best videos, most creative and imaginative projects, most unusual applications, most fun projects, would all be different., so no matter how it was scored, and if we all started at the same time, the result scoreboard would be very different each time.

* it is a misquote of a famous game-show presenter in the UK

This is a very social community.  The likes work both ways (points for the creator of content and for the liker), so I am not so sure that it is that biased.

When I first became active on element14 I was so warmly welcomed by a few of top contributors, that I followed them and watched how they have interacted with the group members (new and experienced).  I modeled my approach after theirs. This was a big change in approach for me as I have never embraced other social sites, nor would I have considered myself to be a social person (more of an introvert).  This has been a very liberating experience for me and also a lot of fun.  I have been working on creating more content, so maybe I too will develop and understanding of any biases in the system.

Enjoy!

Gene