I'm not striving for level 9, much less 10. Climbing levels is boring for me. I think it takes someone more obsessive.

@EdEarlone of those meandering, get there when I get there, maybe never will sort of jurneys

I am at level 5. It seems to only allow you to screen out people with same or lower levels

Good grief. I'm at the very bottom of the first page. I thought there would be far more members above me.

The way you get points curtails even after passing level 2, as certain maxima are reached. However, the throttling starts to become really apparent half-way through 8, and giving "likes" no longer earns you points, only being liked awards you a paltry point.
An interesting exercise is to see how long it takes you, in hours, to gain an extra 1,000 points, then divide 1,000 by that time to get your current "points per hour" rate.
You can also calculate your overall "scoring" rate by checking when you joined, converting that to days, then hours and dividing your points total by the hours.