New Ranking system since last software upgrade yesterday

[ChrisSilver]

You may have noticed the new ranking system which replaced the old when the software was updated yesterday to the latest version.

This ranking system is designed to help encourage new members to engage on the forum and to increase overall topics and posts. Members are awarded points for interacting on the forum in various ways, posts, topics, reacting to posts etc. There is also a badge system with various badges for different achievements.

We can look at improving the system and adding additional badges in the future, such as one for members who have listed X amount of trade topics on the forum, and for member's who have been here a long time, e.g. 3 or 5 years+.

To clarify the system is simply based on interactions on the forum, such as posts and topics, and doesn't correspond to a user's knowledge about precious metals or accuracies of their posts.