tellows karma points
The Community Ranking System

Member details

Investigator Henk van Zyl has written 2 ratings that have been rated helpful 0 times. Karma points: 5

As a community member, you are the heart of tellows: without the tellows community, we cannot classify phone calls. Your ratings, comments and answers contribute significantly to the clarification of phone calls. The large number of active users and their valuable educational work results in reliable protection against scam calls. The more detailed the ratings in the community are, the more effective the classification of the phone numbers and the protection on all your devices.

To honour your commitment and outstanding educational work, we have introduced the tellows karma points.

You collect karma when you rate a phone number, write a reply comment to a rating or rate other users' ratings. Is your comment particularly helpful or does it collect a lot of responses from other community members? Great, then you collect more Karma points. All you have to do is log in and start collecting.

The tellows point system

Action	Karma points
Write a rating	+ 1 Point
Enter caller name (bonus point)	+ 1 Point
Comment on rating (bonus point)	+ 1 Point
Positive ranking of your own rating	+ 1 Point
Negative ranking of your own rating	- 1 Point
Your own rating was marked as spam	-1; -2; -3 Points
Write reply comment to rating	+ 1 Point
Rate other users rating	+ 1 Point

A detailed comment with the caller's name is the best way to classify unknown phone numbers. That's why you get a bonus point if you add the caller's name to your rating and a second bonus point if you write a comment with more information about the call. You can find out what an ideal evaluation might look like in this example.

There are 4 levels you can achieve

Investigator Defender Guardian Legend

As an investigator you have collected your first karma points and help the tellows community with important educational work.

When your score reaches 50, you reach the defender level. Your input has helped many people to classify unknown calls - you can be relied on. From this level on, all your ratings receive a positive rating from us. We would like to emphasise your commitment to the community.

You will be elevated to Guardian when you reach the point total of 100. As an old hand in the tellows community, your ratings are highly valued. Your word enjoys enormous prestige.

Anyone who becomes a legend with a score of over 500 is an indispensable part of the community. Your commitment to tellows is incomparable. You have classified and rated countless numbers.

Highscore

User	Points	member since
Guardian ELE	464	9/20/16
Guardian AntonPierre	374	7/7/22
Guardian Peter	135	1/14/22
Guardian DEON LOUW	102	8/15/23
Defender Truthline	68	6/26/19
Defender EE1	68	7/18/17
Defender Steve	65	8/18/23
Defender Gavin	44	1/5/21
Defender Tellows User	43	5/11/22
Defender Killthem	40	11/30/14
Defender Ann3dria	33	10/11/21
Defender aur.	32	6/26/19
Defender JIMMY H	30	4/27/20
Defender Pieter	24	6/20/19
Defender Andyman	22	2/10/21
Defender Daniel W	21	7/30/19
Defender Once bitten	20	5/31/22
Investigator timmee	18	9/19/23
Investigator Catching	17	8/10/23
Investigator V of	16	4/1/22
Investigator hidden	16	7/3/22
Investigator IrisC	15	5/16/23
Investigator Tamsyn	15	7/27/24
Investigator Soekie	14	8/26/19
Investigator Mich2189	14	5/1/20
Investigator Joe	13	8/12/22
Investigator Fee	13	10/2/24
Investigator Not2talker!	13	10/18/22
Investigator JJ	12	10/26/20
Investigator tobeck	12	6/17/22

Exciting rewards waiting for you - collect points now

As you collect points and move through the different levels, interesting benefits and rewards will be unlocked for you. We want to honour you as an important component of the community.

To reward your knowledge and patience in the fight against phone scams, comments from "Legend" and "Guardian" are automatically rated positive.