There are mainly four things visible for the users: The users score, his level, his next level up in %/points and his activity in %.vBExperience is an advanced Level and Activity System with Shop and Awards. It will calculate an activity and experience score for every user based on their activites on the forum. Now your users will see how their level is increasing by participating on forum.
Only active users will be shown in this system. [Users who were active in last 30 days]
Calculation of the score
Taken into calculation are these things:
Threads
- Created threads
- Thread views of own threads
- Thread replies of own threads
- Thread votes of own threads
- Thread tags
- Replies to own threads
- Sticky threads
- Socialgroup Discussions (Discussions, Posts)
Posts
- Created posts
- Views on attachments
User
- Days since registration
- Referrals
- Received infractions
- Reputation / Use of reputation system
- Visitor messages on profiles
- Members of own social groups
- Albumpictures
- Friends
- Completing Profile
& Misc
Awards
There are four default awards: Community, Posting, Activity and Helpful. The awards are shown in Rankings and Profile.
Rankings
Showing User, Level, Awards, Activity Points (experience, thread, post, user, misc) - sortable.
Earn Points
Since vBExperience 3.8.0 there is an overview for the user on how points can be collected.
Statistics
The statistics is showing a Top-X list of the leading users. Usefull for optimizing points of the point provider. Only enabled point providers with results will be displayed.
Shop
[Not enabled yet - If users are interested, i'll enable it.]
With vBExerience 3.7.14 a virtual Shop has been introduced. You can define categories and put virtual items with pictures in it. A currency can be defined seperatly for every item, e.g. 20 points from threads or 100 points from gallery. Users can purchase the items, they appear in their profile. The costs of the item are substracted from their xperience points. Additionally you can set quantity of the items.
The Shop will motivate your users to collect specific points to buy an item. Optionally you can show the last purchased items on postbit.
You can put virtual items in it.
Calculation of the activity
The system calculates the activity by taking the average post count of the ten most active user and comparing it to own post count.
Warning
Don't post useless or meaningless reply to threads otherwise you will get minus points. To say Thanks, use Thanks button. Don't reply with Thanks in all threads.
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