So I got a little bit more information on this. I've found out that when people delete their own posts/comments and there are comments associated with those deleted posts/comments that the points earned are lost as well. Similarly if you create a post and then delete it, the credit you earned for creating the post is deleted when you remove it. Similarly if you are awarded a points for someone liking or indicating your post is helpful, if that designation is changed, then the points are deducted. With that being said if you created things last week but deleted them today then you'd have a gain last week but a loss on the day you deleted them or someone else deleted your comments that were children of their comments. The only way you overcome the daily gain/loss is to add more points than you lost on a day.
I haven't looked at what gifting points does. I'll probably test that tomorrow. I don't have any test accounts with significant points to test it with. The leaderboard is calculated only twice a day so even if you gift someone points you may not see that reflected in the gain/loss until up to 11 hrs and 59 seconds later.
Mark
EX Community Manager
EX Community Admin Team
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