@Frantic310 Being brutally honest with you, they don't serve any purpose whatsoever and that's why members have their points pilling up and don't use for anything at all, as if the feature didn't even exist.
But anyaways, for every 2 hours you seed, you get 1 point. This is regardless of how many torrents you are seeding, according to the FAQ (but tbf I never checked).
You can upload torrents and hope people will gift you some of their bonus points. The only point of having those is using it to gift other members, but like I said the points are kinda useless so they'll do nothing with it as well.
If you are looking for points to use them to freeleech torrents, you can use this topic: At Risk torrent
Rules are simple, torrents must have few seeders. How much is "few" depends on the torrent size, but usually anything with more than 10 will be rejected unless it is a massive collection. You can send up to 3 torrents in a single request.
If you're looking for points to trade for upload traffic, it is much easier to upload your torrents.