What Are The Points For?

When I go to "My Home" I see that I have "4" points. What are the points for? How do you accumulate points? Thanks.

Explanation as per Chess.com "Help" menu:

Member Points: Chess.com keeps track of all of your contributions to the site such as comments, blog posts, forum participation, articles, etc. Each contribution counts for points. This helps members know how involved each other are in Chess.com!
You can't do anything with those points, they just show others how active you are as a member on the site.

Its basically a way to keep track in the eternal pissing contest of who is the king geek around here.

Ha!  I have 13 points and you only have 4.  At least I can beat you at something. 

(or queen geek?) lol :D

Surprize! Now you've got seven. Actually, you just get them when you post, or answere questions. Other than that they're useless.

Prizes.

p.s. Send me a personal message, I'll make sure you get a good rate.

I like your bow tie

I sew mine into my underwear.

i haz moar points now!

I'd like some points too.

you can get wasy points doing this: TROLLING (hi woodshover) jk

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this is called spamming.

this one is called the

"pretending to post and putting a deleted sign over the comment to make it look like there was a comment"

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