text: you loose points for asking a question?? i posted a question and noticed that it subtracted 2 points from my total. i thought that you earned points for both asking and answering questions.  does anyone know? yes you lose points for asking. this is to try and keep down on the stupid questions and on the repeat ones.  since you lose the point i think they figure that you will use them more wisely and ask only questions that you truly want to know some answers to.    you do get the points back when you put the answers to a vote  or pick one as the best.