Just to clear it up I look at every debate that is created on the main debatewise site over the period of the month and count the points in it. There are a few exceptions - the revisewise site no longer updates on to the main site as we are not currently using it so I don’t check it. I used to count more points for RRT debates (I did not give points for creating non RRT ones) but decided it was not worthwhile distinguishing between them.
In terms of adding points when looking for things that will get points for the DOTM it is not worth adding to debates that were added significantly before the start of that month.