Its the reward reaping time for many Sulekha bloggers. As soon as Sulekha announced their plan to shower bloggers with Gift Rewards, most of us were pretty excited and eagerly waited to know more about it. Once they opened up the window to set us free to redeem our points with some nitty gritty's and how it works type thing, everybody started going wild in converting their points to equivalent Rupee value and hit the shopping site to find gifts of their choice.
Especially PRO bloggers(not me) who been blogging for years have been taken away to a freeze mode after seeing their converted amount. Nobody has revealed any figures yet. But one can easily guess from their page views. I bet they have tons on store to be redeemed. Many are aspiring to reach that stage. I also started seeing flurry of blogs from PRO Bloggers about the Do and Don't redeeming points. Many of them are saving up their points to get a big buy out from the shopping plaza.
Once the points are drained out from their account, everyone started eyeing closely on the points counter every time they do any activity. Now, there is not much importance for ranks, its the points which starts intriguing everybody to be gained. They just want to keep the counter ticking all the time so they can continue to accumulate more and more points for better rewards until they hit the daily max of 1000 points.
Realizing the craze among bloggers to know about points these days. I thought lets do an analysis to find out how many points gets for every different activity. Like many bloggers, I started watching the points ticker closely for each activity and sketched out some figures. It might be common for any bloggers unless sulekha is so intelligent to add some complex logic to it. Here is my analysis to guide you to satisfy your hunger toward points.
160 -280 Points
You will be able to take away this chunk of points if you can write a good blog to fill good amount of the page. If you edit the blog, you gain 80 points every time. I am not sure there is a limit for it.
100 Points
You can easy catch 100 points fish by reviewing any movie in the movie section. I don't think there is any limitation for how big it should be. Also by starting a new discussion group in Group section, you can reel it in.
80 Points
When you broaden your friends network by sending notes, you will add up 80 points to your points wallet. Its every time you send the notes.
50 Points
Every time you comment on a blog, you add up 50 points in your points valise. You can just keep commenting or add comments in the group and you will earn 1000 points. Lot of people just do that. If you watch closely, you will notice them.
40 Points
Whenever you start a Thread in the Group section or you add comments in any of the thread, you are awarded 40 points. Folks who are not well versed with blogging, they just concentrate on chatting in groups and gain lots of points from it.
10 Points
A trifle 10 points gets added to your ticker when you add any favorites. It can either a favorite blogger, restaurant or shop. You only get 10 points for it.
Once you reach your daily max of 1000 point, any more activites will not be counted under points but I am sure your rank system will take that into account. As I used to say, there is always good thing and bad in Sulekha system.
Good Thing
You get to see the points ticking every time you do an activity until you reach your daily max of 1000 points. There is no secret algorithms. I always helps to limit your activity to certain numbers if you are only keen on adding up points. You can easily gain 20,000 points = Rs.1000 in 20 days if you continue the activity to add 1000 points every day for 20 days.
Bad Thing
I don't think points are related to Ranks. May be to some extent but my analysis couldn't able to find exact relation with points and ranks. So if you are interested in ranks and not very much to the points, please continue to blog on and make your presence. You will see the change in the ranks everyday.
As its easy to predict the points earned and you can easily come up with the activity list, it doesn't interest many people except few diehard bloggers who just keep blogging and commenting.
Suggestion to Sulekha:
1. Sulekha should start thinking about changing their point allocation logic to be a variable by changing its daily max related to their ranks.
2. They can do the same thing to the points for each activity. They can vary the points relating to the ranks, that way its tough to figure out exact points for each activity.
I hope I didn't cross my limit or break terms & conditions of Sulekha by revealing the most wanted secret. I hope to not to get thrown out this blog space!!
