What do the points and levels mean?

Question

What do the points and levels mean?

Answer 1

Not a lot, mate not a lot!

Answer 2

if you click on the number of points you have, it'll show you x

Answer 3

just a way to encourage participation

Answer 4

I feell that they are trying to coax you to the next level and so thorth.  However, I think we need more incentive myself - some categories are busy with rubbish questions and others no so with more serious question.  I myself have posed a question on how to get to view the leaderboard without page after page - not one answer and this is important to me, equally how the rubbish questions are important to somebody else.  So if you get to the top level - perhaps you could or even before, come to that, try to introduce more interesting questions, as you have done here.

Answer 5

Nothing

Answer 6

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/info/scoring...

Answer 7

when you get points, your level increases and the higher you go. it's like a game. but other than that, nothing.

Answer 8

go to your profile page :::: click on the blue icon next to total points  ,

the scoring system and what you can do is shown