Comments on: NEW: Earn Points & Grab Premium Freebies With The MakeUseOf Rewards System

By: will

will — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:34:42 +0000

great review.made my choice really easy

By: Mitch Dynomite

Mitch Dynomite — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:32:50 +0000

Thank you this is very helpful for dealing with the points system.

By: Nikhil Chandak

Nikhil Chandak — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:43:23 +0000

amazing ways to use MUO’s points !!

By: Billy Tyler

Billy Tyler — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:26:49 +0000

This is brilliant. Granted, who knows if the increased traffic revenue really justifies these discounts but it is a great incentive to help out.

By: muotechguy

muotechguy — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:49:03 +0000

Peter, you’re probably trying to read too much into it. If you comment, you get points; if you answer, you get points. Right now it doesn’t get more in-depth than that, however we are planning to add the facility to assign “best answers” or let users vote on comments etc; we’ll tell you about those if and when the times comes though. Also, if you share using the buttons on the page, you will get points.

Caveats: we have spam filters in place. There is a specified cool down between events, and a minimum word count (so “cool article man” wont get points because its a worthless comment); as well as a daily limit on how many times an action can be taken. We won’t go into detail with those because it encourages abuse; we DO get people who load up a bunch of articles and share them all just for the points, and they do go on a commenting rampage with one or two word pointless comments, all posted within seconds of each other. So just know that there are things in place to prevent this, but it wont affect regular users.

Basically, comment as you normally would, help people out on answers, share articles actively but responsibly, and your points will go up.

By: Matt Smith

Matt Smith — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:50:19 +0000

The limits are classified ;)

By: Matt Smith

Matt Smith — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:48:21 +0000

You receive points for commenting and for answering questions, period. We do filter comments and questions, but you don’t necessarily receive more for a longer comment. Though we do provide opportunities to earn more points at certain times. i.e. (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/help-needed-tell-us-your-favorite-android-games-win-150-reward-points/)

You should receive points for Facebook shares, period.

And as for the limits, well, they are a secret. We can’t make it toooooo easy.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:20:04 +0000

I’d really like to see a page that tells us EVERYTHING about MakeUseOf points. There’s some information in the Getting Points section on this page and on the MakeUseOf Account page (http://www.makeuseof.com/game/), but it’s severely limited.
I see we can get points for commenting; can a “comment” be a question about an article? I see we can earn points by answering questions; if my answer is incorrect or incomplete, do I still get 10 points, or just some of the points, or no points? Who decides? I see points are awarded for sharing an article; I shared an article on facebook that showed up on my profile page but not in the News Feed (a problem I constantly have with fb), will I still get the points? Finally, what, specifically, are the “daily limits?”
If a page with answers to these questions exists, will someone kindly direct me to it? If no such page exists yet, I hope it soon will.
Thanks.

By: jrasulev

jrasulev — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:17:48 +0000

Great job done by you guys and ladies! Thank you. By the way, what is the limit?

By: Chuck Wainman

Chuck Wainman — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:44:35 +0000

Achievements? Achievements!

By: achyut reddy

achyut reddy — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:07:25 +0000

love this idea. its really cool

By: Kavin Jan Abendan

Kavin Jan Abendan — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:48:45 +0000

Wow, I just need to earn a lot of point to get those.

By: Samrudh Shetty

Samrudh Shetty — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:24:20 +0000

Same with me

By: muotechguy

muotechguy — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:59:08 +0000

… something like that. But thats ok, work hard now and you’ll always have enough points!

By: Yang Yang Li

Yang Yang Li — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:48:33 +0000

Uh oh, I have a gut feeling of what the “tweaks” are. As more poeple join the point system and more points enter the market, inflation will occur. Soon, the prices of software will skyrocket to thousands of points and only those that dedicate their souls to MakeUseOf will be able to afford them. What’s worse is inflation will rise faster than I’m able to earn points. It’s Germany 1929 all over again!