Voting, Flags and User Points

The Voting System

Voting buttons are displayed next to each article, in order to determine its popularity. For simplicity's sake the voting system is an up/down one, so either you vote an article up, or down.

There is no specific guideline on the criteria involved in your decision, and you can always change your vote later on a specific article.

Voting on an article rewards you with 1 User Point.

Flags

There are actually a few criteria we like to keep separate from votes. Those are Offensive/Defaced content (the "Mark as offensive" links at the bottom of articles) and Spelling/Grammatical errors (the "Mark for proofreading" ones). If you spot any of those mark it with the corresponding flag and a moderator or their author will be attending to them.

Flagging content is also considered very helpful and will reward you with 2 user points when the issue is addressed.

User Points

User points are used to keep track of user involvement on the community.

You get:

• 1 point for voting on an article
• 2 for correctly flagging content
• 1 to 5 points for posting on a talk page
• 15 for posting an Idea
• 50 for writing an article

User points may also be awarded on other occasions, as well as manually by a moderator.