Yes, its not hard to earn points here, although writing a longer text is not an easy task for foreign language speakers (like me). Even so I can post enough to keep my site running. PS: What do you think about my English level?

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From this post I doubt anyone could tell that English is not your first language. Yes, I'm sure it's more difficult for users where English is not their native language. But as you have pointed out, it's still possible to post enough to keep your site going. Hopefully reading and posting here will improve your knowledge of English and it will become easier.

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I’m a new comer whose native language isn’t English
i think
Although it is easy to understand the credit system, it’s fairly hard to get a single post for a new beginner in the area.

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I don´t agree. It can be easy for people that don´t have too much things to do apart from going five or six hours to school. But if you work 8 hours a day (and often more) far away from your home and you run a website that you need to update regularly and his own forum that you need to check daily, you could find not so easy to maintain a high level of credits. And if your computer crash suddenly and you have hardly time to carry it anywhere to have it repaired, you´ll find it very difficult indeed. And if english is not your native language you´ll find it even more difficult. To be honest it´s very difficult for a "non-english-speaker" to be above 20 or 30 credits.

I´m not critizising, if I´m here is because I think Trap17´s offer is the best that I know in free webhosting. But that doesn´t mean that being active at the forums is easy.

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But I have a question. The note on the forum's homepage says size counts. You can't possibly get 2 credits from a 4 liner. Can you?

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No, I don't think you could. Would you honestly consider a 4 line post as a post that has quality content? You might post something very profound in those 4 lines, but by itself it probably wouldn't mean a lot, usually it needs to be further explained with more text. By this I mean expand on your idea so others can better understand what it is you are trying to say.

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2 credits = 4 liner = negative.

This is a system where size and quality of posts matter. The system also varies for different members. Say if a new member and premium member made the same post...the new member would gain more credits than the premium member. So, in sort of answering the question, newer members get credits faster than those who have been here and have posted for a while now.

Size counts, but quality is of importance. We don't want spam topics or replies, we want a clean forum with elaborated thoughts and ideas. In doing this, earning credits will never be an issue, one good post per day should keep you covered for around two.

For those who don't speak or use English as there primary language, all that can be said is to do your best..everyone makes mistakes, and we can accept that here. However, correct grammar is also valuable, so if necessary, you must take time to make your posts properly, honestly, what's a couple extra minutes or seconds out of your life?

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Well, I know that people can understand that some of us don´t speak english in our day-life and that they can easily pardon us for any gramatical or spelling mistakes that we can make. But if you try to make a post in spanish you´ll find the difficulty soon. Because I have no problem to tell in english that "I like this" or "I don´t like that". But when I get involved in more deep conversations, I find more problems. For example, ¿how to talk in english about technical issues that you don´t even know the proper names in your own language? Besides, when you try to be so correct with the language you don´t know when you are being too reiterative or presuntuous, using words that aren´t too common and make you look stupid, etc.

And I have to say that I´m studying now 4th grade in the Official Language School so I have a decent level. I would appreciate anyway a pair of subforums where people could talk in other languages (maybe spanish and french, or whatever).

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that's right!
Byes

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i have to agree with you guy that making a long good post isn't hard. The problem is the topics. As you have noticed, most topics are so hard for people to state their opinons. Maybe it will be easier if there is a debate forum where people could debate over things.

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