tellows karma points
The Community Ranking System

Member details

Investigator Nigel has written 2 ratings that have been rated helpful 1 times. Karma points: 7

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
Legend NeilH	760	9/6/16
Guardian gazchampion	330	6/12/15
Guardian xubbi	273	2/17/20
Guardian Mike	170	8/22/22
Guardian willthegas	150	10/2/20
Guardian xyzabc	147	6/28/23
Guardian genie	143	10/26/16
Guardian Felix	139	12/9/21
Guardian ajtucker	136	3/25/21
Guardian JRC	133	7/24/18
Guardian DBurdock	132	12/29/17
Guardian Ethel Rover	124	8/13/14
Guardian Ryo	112	5/11/19
Guardian Richard Hill	108	12/13/17
Defender Shippo	93	6/4/21
Defender Gazman	90	9/9/23
Defender Mark	74	8/2/14
Defender Jenny	73	4/10/15
Defender [email protected]	73	8/21/20
Defender PaulMac	67	6/27/16
Defender farmersboy	67	10/27/17
Defender BAN THE BOTS	66	1/27/23
Defender voveve	63	10/30/23
Defender +448456197330	59	11/21/15
Defender gazchampion	59	2/15/16
Defender Davidog	59	1/27/18
Defender RonGould	58	12/18/17
Defender Lisa17	56	1/11/18
Defender Doulouz	54	12/15/19
Defender Andu	53	2/1/18

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.