That may be so However the quality of Ullis post are very high, and is points to post ratio is very low. there are other who have been chasing points, Rob, Ulli are not those, they are here for the correct reasons That said the fact that Ulli is no longer in the Top ten is indicative of he posting in the Workstation forum, in that forum people drop in to ask a question get an answer and never return. If Moderators were authorised to award points, those posters who provide the quality responses in the hosted forums would be a lot higher up the status level than they are.

The fact that we cannot award points is a whole different argument, it was a conscious decision so that we could not be accused of nepotism.

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Tom Howarth VCP / vExpert
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Exactly, those asking questions in the ESX based forums tend to be System admins etc who are used to providing information to support desks etc. it has been interesting to see the level of original post infomation drop in the ESXi forums since the release of the Free version of the product as more none professional user are using it.

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Tom Howarth VCP / vExpert
VMware Communities User Moderator
Blog: www.planetvm.net
Contributing author for the upcoming book "VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing ESX and the Virtual Environment”. Currently available on roughcuts

Wow that's a lot of points in one week andre!! I was proud of my 46 points from only really joining the community a week and a half back(the account had been created by the guy i took over from hence the since date)

I'm enjoying learning off many of the posts here as i try read through the ones that take my interest just to see how people have fixed their problems and to try grow my knowledge and pick up some tips which i definately have done!! Also i oviously try answer questions where i feel i know the answer,rather than just writing something for the point of writing as i hate having to go through posts where people have added useless information just for the sake of posting.

Is anyone on here booked up for the "what's new in vsphere" course yet? Thinking of getting myself on it as soon as it's available as i've already created a six node vsphere drs cluster and so want to perfect my knowledge and make sure i can support it correctly. Anyone know of good documentation to go through to learn all vsphere stuff apart from the obvious VMware documents?

Gregg Robertson, MCSE, MCSA, MCTS,MCITP

I'm pretty sure the point system does not reward documents, no matter how highly rated or widely read. The document I linked to makes no mention of points for documents, and my own experience bears this out (I wrote a number of the most widely read docs on these forums, but I'm pretty sure I earned all my points via posts and correct/helpful awards). The point system certainly can't take into account the informative sites that a number of the top posters maintain on their own, outside of the forum.

Although points are a fine general indicator of knowledge/participation, focusing on points makes the community worse off because the points system rewards behaviors that don't help and does not reward behaviors that do.