What are Rank Points?

Ranks? Points? What? Surely by now you have noticed something about rank points somewhere around the site. This page is your one-stop-shop for all things related to rank points. Check back often as this page will be updated periodically as new things are added.

The Concept Behind Rank Points

Basically, rank points are a set of points that numerically display your rank in our community. You get points for completing certain actions throughout the site, and when you reach a specific amount of points, you enter a new rank, which gives you access to more features.

How to Get Rank Points

Here's a list of different ways you can get rank points:

Current Ranks & Privileges

Puddle - 0 rank points

• New members are puddles. Quickly free yourself from such an embarassing rank by getting to the next level! Puddles are forced to go through anti-spam filters such as CAPTCHAs.

Snowball - 4 rank points

• No more CAPTCHAs in the forums.
• Snowballs can give out kudos to other users on their posts.
• Snowballs have the ability to use the "Website URL" profile setting, which displays a link to their site in their profile and in other parts of the site that their user information is displayed.
• Snowballs can also attach images to their forum posts and comments.

Snowman - 10 rank points

• A Snowman can add their site into the IC Network.

Icicle - 25 rank points

Iceberg - 50 rank points

• Icebergs can add/edit a header post in their forum topics. Header posts, are a short description displayed at the top of every page of a forum topic.

Glacier - 100 rank points

Penguin - 250 rank points

Beluga - 500 rank points

Narwhal - 1,000 rank points

Polar Bear - 2,000 rank points

• You can't be a Polar Bear and not awesome at the same time. You just can't.

Top Ranked Users

You can view which users are the top ranked in this page. Good luck reaching the highest ranks!