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- Anonymous10 months agoFavourite answer
Dude its been 12 years and 4 accounts ago since I was on a leaderboard.
It baffles me as to why people here still obsess over points and Leaderboards and TC badges. The questions on here are crap.
About the only thing this place is good for now is flaming people who ask stupid questions and attacking vicious trolls with equally vicious remarks.
- Weasel McWeaselLv 710 months ago
Because Leaderboards are not about POINTS . or even TOTAL BA's.
They are ranked by the number of BA's you have in THAT specific Category.
I am on a number of them and have more points than most here, (but not all, obviously) -
The MAIN overall leaderboards have indeed been frozen and not updated in YEARS. Conley passed Aunt Katie ages ago.....but the Main leaderboard still does not reflect that, and is a collection of long since suspended accounts.
CATEGORY leaderboards do indeed still work. Again, I know that, because I am on a number of them.
If they seem like they are not moving, that's because you are either not keeping track, or you haven't cracked the top 10 yet.
I thought the POLITICS board was dead and Frozen because I haven't seen it move in ages.........and I damn sure should be on it by now.......
but apparently not. I started keeping track of the OTHER users in the top 10......and yes, some of the accounts seem dead and frozen in place......but others are moving and gaining new BA's daily. 4 of them are quite active.
so I guess I just haven't reached the bottom rung yet.......
conversely, I was startled as hell, when I *did* appear on the P&S leaderboard........ I damn sure was NOT expecting THAT. I don't where the hell that came from!
But POINTS alone, has nothing to do, with CATEGORY leaderboards.
Interestingly.-- right after the recent format change....you are RIGHT......they changed the rankings to show POINTS, not BAs......but did NOT rank the people by POINTS, in order......so, a rather puzzling useless change......that didn't really mean anything.......
but that only lasted a few days, and then it went back to showing total number of BA's in that category......and then froze......for about two weeks.
I guess they were still working out the kinks of the new format.
But NOW they are functioning again...............
yet oddly, the MAIN overall leaderboards remain frozen in time. Go figure.
- .Lv 710 months ago
Leaderboards show how many BAs in a particular category/subcategory a user has. A user may have millions of points but if they have low BAs in every category they use, they won't make the leaderboard. Not to mention, leaderboards haven't been updated in a VERY long time.
- 10 months ago
The leaderboards haven't been updated in years and it's unlikely they ever will be again.
There are a of of users listed there who's accounts are long suspended, or just don't use the site anymore.
- DanielLv 710 months ago
You have not Beaten the other people on the Leaderboard you have to Surpass there Numbers
- Anonymous10 months ago
Don't feel bad. I've got 209,000+ and I've never been on the leader board.
- SOT3Lv 610 months ago
Which leader board? The main leader board people have millions of points. Note, they are based on BAs, not points. As noted, they have not been updated in a long time.
- Anonymous10 months ago
They abandoned the Leader Boards months ago they are never updated
- Anonymous10 months ago
I trade all mine in for cash each time I hit 50,000.