Because I see them as one measure of how much I have added to Waze.
I know it’s popular amongst higher editors to say “points don’t matter to me any more” and it feels like it’s almost frowned on to publicly care about your points. Well I care very much. :lol:
Over 4 years I’ve dedicated massive amounts of time and effort to building and improving the UK map. During that time I’ve been paid the grand amount of £0. All I have to show for it, as an external measure, is my position on the UK scoreboard and that number that says I’ve made 4 million points-worth of improvement. You may wonder if I have cheated, or if others do. Well I’m sure that some do cheat. I know I haven’t, so it’s certainly possible to score 50K in a week without cheating. I bet that I get more satisfaction from my honestly-earned points than the cheater does.
And I don’t ever want to suggest that editing is more important than driving. In the UK weekly scoreboard, there are regularly names in the top 10 who have never or barely made an edit. Admittedly, very few people have a job that requires the amount of travel this requires, but every driver who turns on Waze - whether it’s for 10 miles travel per week or 1000 miles - is also making a valuable contribution to Waze. It’s all very well for me to spend hours making the map look good in a town - but without Wazers contributing the driving data, the Waze routing will never reach it’s full potential.
So if you’re one of the visitors to this thread who wonders where high scores like mine come from: it’s hours of editing every day to the exclusion of all social life. :lol:
And that effort would be wasted without you guys turning on Waze and making use of it, for which I thank you. :mrgreen:
My wife asks: “So, what can you do with Waze points?”
Me: “Nothing, they are just kinda pride points”
W: “You do this for no reason?”
Me: “It’s for a reason, like updating TripAdvisor or any other social data app.”
W: “So you do this for nothing in return?”
Me: “Nerd points. Like Where’s George. I don’t get anything of value, just pride in an accomplishment. Nerd Points.”