I honestly don't care. I've never used my name or my businesses' names in any post, so whether Lighthouse24 is listed on the board or not is unimportant to me.

I do care when people acknowledge that an answer was helpful, and when they say thank you. And it bothers me a little when they don't (especially if I'm offering a response that would have cost them time and money to get otherwise). Although it's rare in this community, I really like it when someone I've helped follows up later with something of value to me. That's how new business relationships develop.

A couple of months back, someone asked about the business relationships that had developed through this site. As I recall, there was only one response (Diva and Iwrite). With almost 25,000 members, that would be what, one of out a potential 625 million opportunities? Kind of sad, really.

I understand why the moderators set up a "participation = points" format in the beginning when there was very little content here. (As I recall, when I joined, the Home Based Business forum had only 18 threads -- and two of the Running Your Business forums didn't have any posts at all yet). Now that there's content, I'd like to see the "leader board" changed to match those in other established communities -- a post gets nothing, only helpful and correct answers get points. In other words, the "top contributors" would really be true "contributors" to the community and it's value as a business information and education forum.

I don't know where I'd be ranked if they went back to the beginning and recalculated all of our past contributions on that basis, but I think it would improve the quality of responses, and reduce some of the garbage.

If I sound a little naive please forgive me but What does this mean???