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by iwnit on July 5th, 2007
---- MODIFIED ANSWER: with some corrections ----------------------
1) The more active and the more appreciated you are on AB (with also some part of luck), the more points you get.
For some bigger amounts of points, you get a new level.
This amounts grows with your level. For any Answerbag user, you can calculate the total amount of points needed for their *next* level. In their profile, section "his / her point", add the current "Points" total and the "pts until level [next level]".
For instance, at the moment, I have 45658 points in total, and I need "2228 pts until lvl 65".
So, to reach level 65, you need in total:
45658 + 2228 = 47886 pts
2) Usually, something particular happens when you reach a new level:
- every 5 levels and later every 10 levels you get a new title
- the amount of points that you can give or take to answers and to questions grows. These are the 4 numbers on the "My ratings" table on your profile. Usually, just one of them will be growing at a time.
After you reach the "Sage" title, those amounts do not change anymore, they stay by:
ans ques
Helpful Rating +6 +5
Not Helpful Rating -5 -5
3) latest change in level organization (end of Spring 2007):
at that time, AB has rised (about doubled) the number of points that you need to get a level. But everybody were allowed to keep their levels.
So if you were 1 point from the next level before the change, you needed to double your points after the change to get the next level.
As a consequence:
- many people after this change were still playing for points, but not much for levels, because they needed a huge amount of points until their next level.
- a long time after this, in the all time most points leaderboard, some people still had higher levels or titles (and could give and take more points) than others with the same number of points.
- people who had not reached the amount of points needed for their level had a black bag.
What next highest rank on AB are you currently trying to achieve?
by Freedom00 on May 3rd, 2011
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How does answerbag.com determine your achievement level?
by gdamon23 on April 28th, 2011
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Why did my AB rank and achievement points go down for no reason?
by Echo141 on June 8th, 2011
| 3 people like this
Who's ever been on the leaderboard? Im rank 7!!
by SarahFun09 on June 14th, 2011
| 2 people like this
Ever wish you weren't at such a high level so that others won't expect so much out of you?
by Charlie is a girl on March 20th, 2011
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Comments
Most impressive sir it is way over what my brain, lol. Thank you
by chuck on April 12th, 2008
chuck: you are welcome!
by iwnit on April 12th, 2008
You are my first AB Hero! Thanks so much for all your help and insight! Wish I could give you more points!
by BadPurplePony on September 19th, 2008
It takes time to get to the higher levels, for me it was a process in the making,
by chuck on September 19th, 2008
BadPurplePony: you are very welcome!
by iwnit on September 20th, 2008
iwnit thanks for the eloborate posting of your previous answer
by chuck on September 20th, 2008
chuck: my pleasure!
by iwnit on September 20th, 2008