Communities just got that more important

As we have detailed in our previous article, we're slowly giving more importance to our communities.

As of now, if you want to get some points for your articles, you need to write to a community or submit your own article to a relevant community.

Only your own submission will get you points and only when accepted. First community to accept your post gives you points. You may submit to multiple communities.

Regarding comments. Only comments that are in communities get you points.

How to find articles that are posted to communities?

The easiest way is to actually go to interesting communities and to their "new" page especially:

Any article there will accept your comment and these will give you points.

How do you determine if it is a regular article or a community article in the feed? Look for the blue community button:

As of right now we are giving out points to moderators of respective communities (20%).

If somebody submits his/her own article to your community and you accept it - you (as a moderator) get 20% of 20 points (=4 points). The same goes for comments (20% of 4 points = 0.8 points).

If you have an admin and a moderator, these 20% is split equally, so each one gets 10%... Right now the points will be split equally among the admin/moderators, but in future community admins will have the way to set how the split should be done (which moderators get more, which gets less).

Note that only author's own submissions will give points and only the first community to approve gives and gets points.

For example: an author writes an article and submits it to three communities - first one to approve gives author the points and gets points for moderators.

If somebody submits someone's article to a community - it doesn't give anyone any points.

This is only step 2 of our plan, please see our previous article for the full plan.

We'll add more hints later to help you understand whether you get points or not for the action you take.

One more important thing: only articles written starting June 5th, 2020 will get any points for first submission (this is to prevent people mass-submitting their older articles and getting 20 points for each).

If you wrote an article recently and didn't get points for it - don't worry - just submit to any community and wait for acceptance (or you can create your own community and post there).

This article isn't posted to any community, so I didn't get any points for it and unless somebody submits it to some community - comments here won't give you points either. This is all a part of the plan to make sure that people actually start using communities so that moderators of communities can help us fight the spam wave.