It may be easy to click a star,, but I don't have the time to make a  great reply/statement to every picture I look at, or every forum post I read. I DO like to at least acknowledge that I saw what the posting member was proud enough of to post. I have also learned a LOT just from looking at pictures and reading the responses to them, as I am not originally from Texas. I moved here in 1998, and feel I will never learn enough about this state I now call home, and have grown to love. I do not mean to go off on anyone by any means, I completely understand what you are saying Debra, I just want you all there to know what this site means to me, at least a little. I like to think I am making new friends here, albeit slowly. Please, keep up the great work!

how does the member referral work? i have e-mailed pages  to friends and some have looked around.

How do you get the stars below your name is that based on the point system?

The Good Ole Boy's Realtor www.therealestateranch.com

Wow. :-P

Keep yer eyes peeled!

mrbigtexan,

Member referral - 300 points - is given when you "Email this Page to a Friend" and that person ends up registering on the site.

The system documents what email addresses you use to "Email this Page to a Friend" and if any of those emails are used to register and become a member, you will be given the points for the referral.

kesoliver's comment above is a good example of how someone uses our website for their enjoyment and community sharing.

Meanwhile, there are other people who do make great contributions of content that takes many hours to prepare, and although not as frequent, we want to recognize those people for their effort to share with our community.

With me at a hospital in California visiting my brother, who's wife has very premature twins yesterday - and thank god everyone seems healthy and stable - and Diana being out of the office with a nerve pinched in her neck - we haven't had a chance in the last 48 hours to verify all the numbers and assign points to past favorites. Hopefully we will get caught back up by Monday.

The bottom line is we want to indentify the most active members of our community and start to use our funds to organize some group gatherings and fun. Hopefully, everyone will be patient as we make this transition and likes the idea of having some fun together.

jason

Hunt Hard. Fish Smart. Explore Texas.

The Real Estate Rancher, the stars underneath the avatars represent the number of posts you have made in the forum.

The formula is Number of Posts / 100. (Up to 10 stars)

100 posts=1 star, 500 posts=5 stars, 1000 posts=10 stars, 10,000 posts=10 stars. Anything over 1000 posts will show 10 stars.

I really wish you had waited until a new month to start the change in the points, it really bolloxed things up by starting in the middle of a month. There are other things I'd like to say, but I won't.  Mom raised me better.

Thanks all.

Sorry that my previous post was so grouchy.