Promotion Structure

CloudSurfing promotes its members based on participation points and reputation points.

Level	Participation Points	Reputation Points
Novice	0	0
Apprentice	100	10
Journeyman	300	25
Master	1000	50
Sage	4000	100
Guru	10000	250

Participation Points

Participation points are earned by participating in any of the following ways.

Activity	Point Amount
Adding your profile avatar	25
Adding a video	20
Writing a review	20
Adding a suggestion	15
Adding a screenshot	15
Adding a comment	10
Adding a rating	7
Promoting/demoting an item	1
Adding a tag	1
Voting on the similarity between sites	1

Participation Bonuses

You earn double the participation points whenever you are the first to add a new type of content to a site:

Activity	Point Amount
Adding the first video	40
Writing the first review	40
Adding the first screenshot	30
Making the first suggestion	30
Adding the first rating	14
Adding the first tag	2

Reputation Points

Reputation points are earned when someone else votes up your content. Contributions which can earn up votes are:

Content Type

Comments

Lists

Reviews

Screenshots

Suggestions

Videos

Reputation Bonuses

You multiply each reputation point earned based on the level of the person that voted on your content. Thus when a level 3 user votes up your content, you earn three reputation points!

Level	Multiplier
Novice	1x
Apprentice	2x
Journeyman	3x
Master	4x
Sage	5x
Guru	6x