What do your Honor Points really mean?
I just opened my first group here at Apsense, which I believe increased my Honor Points to 2. And this got me thinking.
As I go around my social/business networking sites, commenting, requesting friends, etc etc .... I notice my activity points rising. In my head, I hear a little voice go WOOHOO! or Alright! ... proud of myself for seeing those little number increase higher and higher.
They are just numbers though. They truely do not mean anything in the larger scheme of things. You can have someone extremely active at a site, but overall, have little to contribute of value. On the otherhand, you can have someone mildly active, but when they do contribute, they are gold! Which person would you rather associate with? Someone who only cares about having the highest activity rating but have not much to offer ... or someone who doesn't care about labels and has something of value to offer?
I'm definately not saying for sites to do away with such gauges. They are obviously needed. But I have noticed some folks get carried away with these numbers and base their existance in having the highest in all categories.
Basically, I'm not impressed with the large numbers beside your name ... unless you have the content and value to back it up. I hope I don't sound too harsh or uppity with this post. I guess this is something that has been eating at me for awhile now. Not just on networking sites, but game sites, forums (forum post counts), and other sites.
Ok, I'll stop now ... for one, it's almost 4am. Secondly, I can go on and on about this *grins*
Just call me Brook, I tend to babble!
~Barbara Eyre
As I go around my social/business networking sites, commenting, requesting friends, etc etc .... I notice my activity points rising. In my head, I hear a little voice go WOOHOO! or Alright! ... proud of myself for seeing those little number increase higher and higher.
They are just numbers though. They truely do not mean anything in the larger scheme of things. You can have someone extremely active at a site, but overall, have little to contribute of value. On the otherhand, you can have someone mildly active, but when they do contribute, they are gold! Which person would you rather associate with? Someone who only cares about having the highest activity rating but have not much to offer ... or someone who doesn't care about labels and has something of value to offer?
I'm definately not saying for sites to do away with such gauges. They are obviously needed. But I have noticed some folks get carried away with these numbers and base their existance in having the highest in all categories.
Basically, I'm not impressed with the large numbers beside your name ... unless you have the content and value to back it up. I hope I don't sound too harsh or uppity with this post. I guess this is something that has been eating at me for awhile now. Not just on networking sites, but game sites, forums (forum post counts), and other sites.
Ok, I'll stop now ... for one, it's almost 4am. Secondly, I can go on and on about this *grins*
Just call me Brook, I tend to babble!
~Barbara Eyre
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Comments (13)
Michael Selim1
Ok.. here is what I got from the Wiki : (( The specific details of how to attain honor points will not be explained to prevent manipulation of the system )) .... that's just great ! so I need honor points but the website won't tell how to get it ?!!! the whole website is based on something that no one knows anything about and the website won't tell anything about it ?? .. is this a joke ??.. well, I don't know about you but this is my last post/activity here. Good luck to you all , Good bye :
Michael Selim1
vpsmalhotra... Thank you for the valuable info, but where exactly I can find my honor points so I can click on it and find more details ?
Vps Malhotra16
Free Lancer
Click at your honour poits and yoou get the details One honor pont for an contact added to your contact llist and so many activities fetch honor points I do agree with barbera that "value" and Quality " should have preference over the 'quantity" but it is out of quantity that quality cmes .Quantity is a democratic co ncept and quality is a result of that quantity It is all in numbers my friend that whole of the interntt markketing is gued to and is success ful say face book ,google all
Michael Selim1
No clue here too ! :)
Adam Magyar1
I have no clue what they do, or how to increase them! Lol
Pieter Jons4
Hello maki,
I am also here for that, I want to get honor point but how it does??
Waki Woldor1
Today only i came to know what is Honor point.! Sad
Rae Steinbrink6
HI Barb,
It appears you have been here much longer than I and I apologize for not getting over 'HERE" sooner. First, based on what I have been reading I'm pretty sure you needn't worry about contributing quality content. That was MY fear about joining APSense right from the "get-go". Regarding your subject at hand, I would rather interact with those they have "lower" scores but a wealth of information than those who's scores are higher just because they happen to be popular.
All my bes
Barbara Eyre6
It's been 4 months. I have not been as active here at Apsense as I had hoped I would be due to work and life getting in the way *grins*.
My Honor Points have moved up to 29 ... it went up 4 just this week as I became more active.
I just hope that the content I add is of quality and is helpful to all who read it.
Joanne Ott6
Hi Barbara!
Havent chatted for awhile and wanted to stop by and say hi.
I hope all is well with you.
Cant believe September already!!
Take care,
Joanne
Barbara Eyre6
I'm keepin' on!
I know I shouldn't worry too much over the numbers ... I mean, they are only numbers, right? *grins*
It's QUALITY over quantity.
But darn it, those increasing numbers sure do look purty! *wink*
<<-- over-tired at nearly 5 am Sunday morning!
Off to dream-land I go .... dreamin' of sales *grins*
Beth Schmillen10
It's a delightful mystery.
if your points go up they may have just updated their data based on posts you did previously... I doubt if honor points are calculated instantaneously? hmmmm... they also reflect the sign ups under you... so i have to admit... I managed to invite a few folks over here and I began to feel like a real online marketer! and I appreciate each and everyone of them!
Every time someone views your profile... views your blog or group that gets you a post as well... so it's
Barbara Eyre6
It's the following day since the above post and now my Honor Points is 4. Have no clue how/why it increased. It does look spiffy though, eh? *grins*
Shortly after posting my original post above, I got to thinking about how negative and whinny it does. Was I in a bad mood? I don't recall such. Was I looking at it all wrong? Very possible.
Later in the day, I received a message from another Apsense member here. The only thing in the message was a short story/poem. No explanation for wh