why the coins?

so I just noticed that I have a chaotic coins on this site. any users of the old site may remeber they were basiclly never used but you got them everytime you uploaded cards to the site. I understand that there also probably useless on this site which makes sense, but my question is where am I getting them from? I have almost 300 I and Don't remember doing anything am I just finding them on the ground?

Each post generates coins if im not mistaken.

huh that seems reasonable but I have a lot more coins than posts so I wonder what the ratio is?

So coins were some unused part of the original forum earned by posting. So same here. Certain subforums have different amounts of coins earned. Some more and some none (like off topic earns none for instance).

The coins basically tell whether a member made contributing posts to chaotic related content. Higher ratio between posts means more general section/gameplay posts than off topic.

Overall the difference between posts and coins shouldn't be dramatic unless e.g. you are primarily posting in gameplay (higher coins/posts) or in off topic (lower coins/posts). Although your gap, Chiodosin, is pretty large 50% more haha (mine is 25% less coins/posts). I may need to tweak some of the parameters
Or maybe you are just farming coins (like you said "on the ground")

Just a hint, army creation offers the big rewards (oops maybe I shouldn't have said anything).

I realized that they were tied to posts, but I wasn't sure how. I guess it makes sense that different threads resulted in varying amounts of coins. And why me and Chiodosin have quite a few. The deck-building competition probably gave me a huge boost as I was posting pretty much close to four times a week there.

Yup, thanks for contributions. You both deserved it. The deck building competition was really cool!

oh know you figured out my master plan to collect a bunch of coins and ruin the economy through inflation! I'll just have to move to my next evil plan of using emoticons to brainwash people