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TR Glitch - old or new?

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by oz_media

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TR has changed the Q&A details to now read that points can be used for question postings but there is no longer a mention of "possible other stuff you can get in the future" which they once said but nothing came of it (don't they have any sponsors to give out free stuff? Why the ads then?).

Now the TR points program says the following:

Action Number of TechPoints
? Register for membership. 500
? Vote in a user poll. 250
? Fill out a survey. 500
? Post a technical answer to a question in
our Technical Q&As. Variable credit based on questioner's rating and number of points initially assigned to question
? Close a Technical Q&A question and rate the answers. 1000

See anything wrong here?

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by oz_media

I ran a test and it works as suspected, instead of racking up half a million points I decided to post here and see if this is an old flaw or a new one.

by oz_media

Is this perhapse a way to get people to close questions?

Do you think they could have come up with a better idea?

by i_izhaut

What is your problem? First you want people to close and now when TR comes up with a great idea you complain???? What gives????

by oz_media

You can post a question (any question) and GAIN 950 points from it.

I posted a TEST question, with 50 points aloocated to the answer. Someone placed a smiley face in response, I rated it a accepted and awarded him 50 points. For CLOSING the question and awarding 50 points, I was awarded 1000 points.

So, if I sat here and posted Hi, comments or TEST questions, I'd rack up 10,000 points a day at least.

But then again, nobody in the computer world would take advantage and exploit a system right?

I never said I didn't like that fact that they were attempting to fix the problem, the way they've fixed it has some MAJOR flaws though.

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