Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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How do points and awards work?
Registered users earn points for submitting, voting and improving brain teasers and quizzes.
When you reach 500 points, you will unlock extra abilities which were previously not available to you. You can then earn additional points by helping to improve the website via the following actions:
You do not get points for correcting your own teasers or quizzes.
Users who demonstrate excellent leadership skills may be promoted to be an editor. An editor is allowed to help review submitted teasers, and verify duplicates and corrections. Editors get 2 points for each teaser they edit and 1 point for each duplicate or correction that they verify.
Any user who meets the eligibility requirements may run in an election and become a quizmaster. Quizmasters are allowed to review submitted quizzes. Quizmasters earn 2 points for each quiz that they review.
Awards
You can also get awards that appear next to your name once you have achieved certain goals.
For a list of all awards, please visit our Awards Page
Points | Task |
50 | Submitting a Brain Teaser that is approved |
50 | Submitting a Quiz that is approved |
1 | Taking a Quiz and rating it |
1 | Trying a Brain Teaser and rating it. |
1 | Taking a Photo Identification Quiz. |
1 | Taking an Art Identification Quiz. |
1 | Helping with Braingle's Maintenance Tasks |
1 | Voting on definitions in our dictionary |
Your IQ | Taking our IQ Test |
When you reach 500 points, you will unlock extra abilities which were previously not available to you. You can then earn additional points by helping to improve the website via the following actions:
Points | Task |
50 | Correctly reporting two Brain Teasers that are duplicates |
5 | Correcting a Brain Teaser that has problems |
5 | Correcting a Quiz that has problems |
1 | Reviewing an unapproved Brain Teaser |
You do not get points for correcting your own teasers or quizzes.
Users who demonstrate excellent leadership skills may be promoted to be an editor. An editor is allowed to help review submitted teasers, and verify duplicates and corrections. Editors get 2 points for each teaser they edit and 1 point for each duplicate or correction that they verify.
Any user who meets the eligibility requirements may run in an election and become a quizmaster. Quizmasters are allowed to review submitted quizzes. Quizmasters earn 2 points for each quiz that they review.
Awards
You can also get awards that appear next to your name once you have achieved certain goals.
For a list of all awards, please visit our Awards Page
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