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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1645143" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>The dots are not based on post counts, the "Posts:" tracks that. The dots are a representation of the reputation system. If you look at the top right of each post, the first icon with the thumbs up is how you use the reputation system. You click on that icon and can choose to approve or disapprove of a post based on how you feel. If you approve, that adds to the rep of the poster and dots appear with some witty statements. The positive repo points are in varying shades of blue getting darker as they go. </p><p></p><p>If you disapprove of a post, they get negative repo and get enough negative rep and the dots get yellow/orange..</p><p></p><p>The big dot in green or red or whatever indicates if you're online now or offline..</p><p></p><p>Trackback harks back (you like what I did there) to a time when people cared very much about where the links were going. So if I were to post a link from this forum on a blog or whatever, that blog would track back to the forum and let it know so that you could see where all the link is going. Not a lot of people care about that now..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1645143, member: 110816"] The dots are not based on post counts, the "Posts:" tracks that. The dots are a representation of the reputation system. If you look at the top right of each post, the first icon with the thumbs up is how you use the reputation system. You click on that icon and can choose to approve or disapprove of a post based on how you feel. If you approve, that adds to the rep of the poster and dots appear with some witty statements. The positive repo points are in varying shades of blue getting darker as they go. If you disapprove of a post, they get negative repo and get enough negative rep and the dots get yellow/orange.. The big dot in green or red or whatever indicates if you're online now or offline.. Trackback harks back (you like what I did there) to a time when people cared very much about where the links were going. So if I were to post a link from this forum on a blog or whatever, that blog would track back to the forum and let it know so that you could see where all the link is going. Not a lot of people care about that now.. [/QUOTE]
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