I don't really know how this rating system works. I'm level 10, which makes me barely a member who can vote on MOTY. Yet, here are my contributions:
1) A former staff member with three articles, who participated in a MOTY, and worked as both a Game Auther and Forum Moderator (with three stickied threads).
2) A group in the Top 20 (and was in the Top 6).
3) A tutorial that was at one time the third most viewed tutorial on the site.
4) A member on the site for over 4 years with over 12,000 posts, belonging to 24 groups and having 37 friends and starting (granted, never finishing) several different mods.
5) I have posted 20 different news articles, 8 since v4 came about.
6) Holding userbars as Ex-Staff, Senior Member, and Old Timer, which are labels not chosen by me but by INtense.
So I don't know how things are calculated, but doesn't this amount of activity account for something a little more?
Good point. I think it's all still being fine-tuned and catching up, but I agree you need more points.
I have been constantly active on the site for nearly five years, written eight popular tutorials in the past six months, five released mods, and plenty of contributed tool downloads - and I'm not ranked much higher either.
It can just be that the level system only uses a few of those to boost your level.
The way I see it, does it by how much you upload.
Love the system, I want more points too though :P
I mean, I did write the most read (and commented, though many were my own) review in the history of the site.
wahhhh my ego isn't big enough i'll whine and rant about it so it biggers
It's not like you never do that.
Oh, cruel, cruel irony.
Think yourself lucky :P I pretty much "beat" you on all of those and I only am level 4 :(