Well, this isn't a normal Welcome post, but since you are new, I'll give you a gift anyway:
And yes, the points are reset to 500 every two weeks. It's not a big deal in my opinion. I think there is some sort of contest, but I'm not really sure.
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo Da Vinci
Griffenkeeper uses them to determine the Member of the Week, I believe.
The points are reset to make it easier to count the totals each week for MotW. For a long while, it was a cumulative point system, but the numbers got out of hand after a few months.
Oh yeah! Welcome to YWS! Feel free to send any other questions my way.
***Under the Responsibility of S.P.E.W.*** (Sadistic Perplexion of Everyone's Wits)
Medieval Lit! Come here to find out who Chaucer plagiarized and translated - and why and how it worked in the late 1300s.
