Well I think the reason (in my opinion), that you have to use points is to encourage members to be active in the forum. After all the folks who run the forum in order to stay established need activity by members in their forum to keep it going. Once I actually learned how to do some of the offers to acquire points, I found it kind of fun and interesting. Actually, has been a learning experience. Thank you to the Admins and others who do what they do to have a forum like this for us. - pokahqueen