Sorry another off-topic but this is about points...

You get points by posting questions or getting liked for your answers

i dont know exactly how it is done but yeah

The website back a few months was very different than it is now. Beside the +1 thing , you see a heart, that heart wasnt there, it was just the +1 and the more if those you have , your name appears on the list of users on the right side. When i first joined , i wanted to get more points than Melody, but that never really happened, you cant beat someone as intelligent as her, i mean im just a teenager anyway so.....

i joined in 2013 and Melody and CPhill has joined way earlier than that so this website is pretty old....

The points you get are basically just earnings kind of this, they also have a competitive element to them , so if you have  A LOT of time and INTELLIGENCE you can try to score as many points as possible.

I remember being so crazy for these things that one when the site was being updated, I lost my points , a lot of them, and I got so worried, then someone helped me out by giving +1 on my old posts.

i dont remember what we called them back then but i guess it was just 'score' or '+1s'....