translation points???

Well first off, what is the point of earning translation points?

Secondly, every time I translate something and it gets accepted, my points decline! are they supposed to decline??

Seems sevious problem, since you are not the first one to claim this.

I've never noticed this problem. Give me urls, numbers etc.. in order I can try to understand and explain you what happened.
Translation points is a game. It's like a reward for translating. But you can also spend them requesting translation for you in languages you don't know.

well.. it like gives me negative virtual points for translating something.. instead of extra.

My points are way down now and they go down even when something wasn't rejected. Do we need to use them for anything?

I don't know if this link will work but.....

http://www.cucumis.org/translation_1_t/translate_t_74798.html