It appears there is other "tweaking" that goes along with adding to the tally associated with a persons profile. Probably based off how much $$ is contributed to the websites fund.
Some of the tally numbers don't match with the actual participation viewed of members. If you sat down with a calculator and took a persons profile with a high tally that isn't that active, and viewed the comment history, you'd find that for the age of the profile, the number isn't accurate for activity.
For this websites case: the tally numbers don't really mean much anyway. It doesn't say anything about how knowledgeable the party is about appliances, nor how much they've helped other members, how funny they are, or any other significant metric.
It would be kind of nice to have an experience level metric because there are some people here who are career mechanics or engineers or other experienced people.
And there are others who participate and the whole mix is what makes the site interesting. No one is top dog (except for Robert since it's his playroom)
It's like Studio 54: Steve Rubell would man that door allowing only a mix of celebrity, those with interesting costumes, the business man group, the drag queens, the singers, the dancers, a few homeless people, the drug dealers, the partiers, and it was GOLD.
