Question

When you get a higher SmartScore, why is it harder to gain points?

Answer 1

It's not that it becomes harder to gain points; it becomes harder to achieve the next rank because the amount of points you need become larger.

Relatively speaking, to get level 1 you'll need 10 SmartScore. Now, lets say you're level 80. Now to get level 81 you're gonna need 400,000 points. Wow! That's a HUGE leap.

Now, lets say you're level 98 and want to be 99. To get 99 you're going to need over 1,000,000 points! So you see, as you increase, the points you need to go up also increase. I mean, it wouldn't be a good system if everyone leveled up at the same speed, anyways! Imagine how fast people would climb to 99. Rank would lose all substance if that was the case.

I hope this helped ~

Answer 2

when you say points, what do you mean?

Answer 3

SmartScore is a system of algorithms. Everything you do on OpenStudy you get points for. This adds up to what we call "SmartScore." I'm going to quote some rough Statistics here, but; you get these points based on your activity

+ 0 Sending or getting a private message
+ 0 Bump Question
+ 0 Giving a medal
+ 0 Replying in your own question
+ 1 Every chat message you post
+ 20 Closing a question
+ 25 Asking a question
+ 25 Giving a testimonial
+ 50 Replying in someone else's question
+ 65 Getting tagged
+ 65 Tagging someone, this is for each tag.
+ 65 Getting a testimonial
+ 65 Fanning someone
+ 100 Getting a medal in your own question
+ 200 Getting a fan
+ 285 Getting a medal
+ 750 Getting a medal from the question asker

So, in order to get, say, level 50, which requires (I believe) around 80,000 - 100,000 points; is relatively small to something like 99; which requires over 1,000,000 points. So you see how things get harder as you go up.

It reminds me of that math question: "You get a penny a day for 30 days; each day the penny doubles. On day one you have 1 cent day two you have 2 cents, and day 3 you have 4 cents. How many do you have by the end of the 30 days?"

The answer? Over five million pennies. It's like a wonder of the world; things tend to start up some and gradually increase to innumerable amounts.

Answer 4

wow! thank you for the great explanation @Compassionate , it helped alot!

Answer 5

You're most welcome