TBT Facts: Bells

[Alolan_Apples]

Yesterday’s entry covered interesting facts about how old this site is. Today’s entry is on...

Bells​

One of the coolest features on this site is the forum currency. In your sidebar, you can see the amount of Bells, which is the forum currency. You get paid for posting, and you can receive Bells through donations and many interesting site features. You can also spend on them by uploading attatchments, buying collectibles or add-ons, and donating to other members. A while ago, people saw no point in TBT Bells, but it became more popular over time. Now it’s like everybody wants some. It can be traded for limited-supply collectibles others have, art of ACNL characters or other characters, ACNL items, Pokemon, or even other site currencies. However, not all forums pay you for posting. Those would have to be the Basement, the Cellar, the Introduction Board, the TBT Marketplace, the Museum Shop, the Bulletin Board, Contact the Staff, and temporary boards like the TBT Fair. Also, there are bad ways of making TBT Bells. Those may result in all of your Bells confiscated, as well as another punishment such as a ban. Examples include, but not limited to:

• Trading for real money, representatives of real money, or even stuff that real money is spent on. In-game items are also forbidden to be traded for real money too.
• Making messy posts (like incomplete quote tags, spoilers with random junk etc.). This is abuse of the forum currency.
• Trading for hacked or duped items in Animal Crossing.
• Selling art you didn’t make (or art from online resources rather than your own). This is stealing.
• Scamming.

Here are some interesting facts about forum currency as I promised:

• If you made ten long posts in discussion threads a day for 100 days, you would make 10,000 TBT by just posting.
• If you got paid 100 TBT per blog entry and have at least 100 entries, you would’ve earned 10,000 TBT or more.
• The most expensive item at one time was the white feather. Its old price was 50,000 TBT.
• Before seashells, there was Welcome Bells. Back when ACNL came out, they used to be very close to 1,000 TBT. But they decreased over time to reduce the number of TBT in circulation, and ultimately removed due to people abusing the system.
• Back when ACNL first came out, the TBT to ACNL Bell conversion rate was 100 TBT Bells for every 100,000 Bells. If you had 100 million Bells (which was enough to get the ABD, you would’ve had 100,000 TBT for trading it all. Now the exchange rate is 100 TBT Bells for every 20 million Bells. You would only get 500 for trading them all.

Speaking of Welcome Bells, there used to be many other ways to make TBT, such as ABD interest, referrals, Birthday Bells, and charge tags. However, these features have been abused, so the admins have either limited the features or disabled earning TBT from them. Even poll creation Bells were wedged down to less than a TBT Bell.

Last, but not least, Bells aren’t the only forum currency on this site. There were also tickets (which you can earn from the TBT Fair by participating in activities), eggs (which you can find hidden in threads), seashells (which are the starter currency), Advent Tokens (from the Advent Calender events), and at one time, embers (for the Fire Festival). There might be more later, but you’ll never know.

 

[Hyrule_Crossing]

I really enjoy reading this for whatever reason lol. I would love to see more!