# Downloading points

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/downloading-points/51005>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 3, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/downloading-points/51005 "2016-10-03T02:52:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![xiasummer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xiasummer/32/82790_2.png) [@xiasummer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xiasummer)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/downloading-points/51005/6 "2017-02-07T07:24:29Z")

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The Biggest deal that we need a points system is not really for downloading files, but a reward system that can make people feel addicted to the forum.

I believe a forum is easily **dead** , if we can’t find a good way of solving such problem.

I don’t know how it can be done. Maybe downloading points system is a good solvement, but well, **Who Knows?**

And other good advices?

ref

> [@What is the exact Meaning of The Community Spirit?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-exact-meaning-of-the-community-spirit/56882):
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> Hi, I always hear about the Community Spirit, while I searched the community, I didn’t find a good post talking about such “Community Spirit” and its development. Rather, I’ve read something about the chinese discourse forum Here we discussed what is the vitality of a forum when there already being facebook, twitter, zhihu, weibo, wechat, etc. When almost all the reading are based on cell phone, what kind of community do we need to build? Do we still need a forum or a BBS community? I …

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