I&#x27;m just 3 points away from having enough to redeem for the giant stuffed panda -- please upvote me!<p>But seriously, I think it&#x27;s meant as a sort of credibility metric and&#x2F;or a disincentive to create troll accounts (e.g. if new accounts had the same &quot;powers&quot; as existing accounts).<p>I think it would be more meaningful if it included a time metric (e.g. 503 points, 37 in last 30 days), since there is a wide spread of time since account creation.