Mark Peterson 07 Aug 2024

I have told them several times it doesn't work right Dale, and they keep telling me it does.

Scott Alexander Jack 07 Aug 2024

I did see you in third place, you need to screenshot your standing, then send it to them in the firm of a question

Mark Peterson 07 Aug 2024

I'm at 1534 today ranked # 1 and yesterday I think I had only 700 something and I didn't do a lot to add that many points. I've learned to not pay much attention to it any more. I even noticed that a few who where on the list yesterday with almost a thousand points are'nt even on the list today.

Mark Peterson 08 Aug 2024

Today I am at 1936 points and again all I did was make 3 or 4 comments and clicked on a few art duels. I went up 402 points... A few times after commenting I didn't move in points at all and one time I even went down in points???

ArtWanted.com Staff 08 Aug 2024

Some of you may have not seen the email or message board post about the changes to the activity points this week. Because of these changes, the point values and your ranking would have changed from a few days ago. See the following blog post for more information about the changes:

https://www.artwanted.com/mb/topic.cfm?Topic=642388

We also wanted to show each of you (in this thread) how exactly your points have been calculated this month as of today...

Dale Newman - 136 points total:
1 Post New Message (50 points)
1 Post Reply Message (25 points)
605 Art Duel Votes (61 points)

Mark Peterson - 1936 points total:
128 Post Image in Art Group (640 points)
12 Upload Images (1,000 points)
11 Artwork Comments (110 points)
20 Responses to Comment (100 points)
5 Add Images Favorite (25 points)
2 Post Reply Message (50 points)
109 Art Duel Votes (11 points)

Scott Alexander Jack - 1373 points total:
21 Post Image in Art Group (105 points)
8 Upload Images (800 points)
1 Response to Comment (5 points)
1 Post Reply Message (25 points)
2 Enter Artwork Contest (200 points)
2,381 Art Duel Votes (238 points)

We hope that this data shows exactly how your points have been earned so far. Your ranking and points are calculated at the end of each day, so your activity will not show up until the following day's chart. If you have any questions about the points, please feel free to comment in this thread about them.

Scott Alexander Jack 08 Aug 2024

Did not receive an email or see any message board notifications about this change to the point system.

Dale Newman 09 Aug 2024

Point 1. I never got the email reference, Point 2. You say my duel points are 605, however when I go on the dual Page it shows over 1500 votes. I remember in fact when I hit the 1000-votemark it made a big deal and made a flash note to let me know, (I don't know what it said) but that's when I noticed my ranking went up. So, something doesn't add up or make sense. based on your math if 606 votes = 61 points, based on my votes I have over double the votes and my points on that alone should be double if not tripled. Please explain. Note: I do not want to come across as a complainer, I just want a clear understanding with the facts clear estBLISHED

Scott Alexander Jack 09 Aug 2024

I think that because they made the point change deal a week into the month, that the art duel points were drastically reduced and it lowered every ones total. Instead of notifying and implementing at the beginning of the month to avoid the confusion. I did see you with allot of points .

ArtWanted.com Staff 09 Aug 2024

Dale - We looked at your email account settings and it look like you have turned off all ArtWanted updates, so you don't currently get any emails about our website changes. If you want to turn that back on, just let us know or visit your notification settings here: https://www.artwanted.com/cp/settings/notifications.cfm

As for your art duel votes, you are correct. However, the points for the Member Activity report reset every month, so art duel votes in previous months do not count for the ranking for the current month.

Hopefully this clears things up, but if not, please let us know any other questions you have.

Dale Newman 10 Aug 2024

Yes, please turn email notifications on again another mystery. I haven't turned anything on or off. Regarding the points, I am not talking about last month's points as the other members can attest too, I am referring to the points that were accrued at the beginning of August about a week into the month for my activity. and then on the 7th I found all the points were removed and I only had 86points to my credit. Now let me be clear, if there has been changes no problem, but if I am maintaining activity on the site under certain parameters that were established by art wanted, but then after the month begins you change those parameters that isn't fair and puts the members at a disadvantage. Basically, meaning any activity established in that first week becomes invalid. In all fairness these changes shouldn't have happened in the month, it should have happened at the beginning of a new month. Regardless of forewarned notification or not, it appears art wanted is more concerned with their convenience and not what's best for the member. I hope that's not true, but it appears so.

Scott Alexander Jack 11 Aug 2024

Any points accrued up to the change date should have been honored.

Dale Newman 12 Aug 2024

Well, I guess reasonableness and fairness has changed somewhere, I really am not disputing the rating scale used, because it is Art Wanted's right and decision to make changes, however the way this was handed was NOT " a care for Members approach " what I thought Art Wanted was all about. Others, I am sure agree whatever scale was used at the beginning of the month should be honored and that this new system should start in September.

Scott Alexander Jack 16 Aug 2024

Looks like now the Member Discussion and New Ideas tab is messed up and we can’t post something new. What’s going on ?

Dale Newman 17 Aug 2024

What's going on? Now my page is white and not dark and I cannot add a new member discussion what's going on? how do I change my page back to Dark Mode?

Mark Peterson 17 Aug 2024

Put your mouse on the little picture at the top of your page next to control panel and you will see five different links... click on dark mode.

ArtWanted.com Staff 17 Aug 2024

Dale- We were informed of the bug where new threads can't be created. This appears to be a code bug that surfaced from our recent security changes. Our team is now aware of this and will be fixing this bug shortly.

ArtWanted.com Staff 18 Aug 2024

The bug has been fixed that was preventing new posts from being created.

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