The way I interpreted it was that you have to make a dialogue selection to earn light side or dark side social points. So if you skip ahead then I guess you will miss out on that.
Im not in beta though so Im not 100% sure.
light and dark points are not the same as the social points.
Social points for going through a entire conversation
Light dark points are for what you choose.
When you look at your toon(by pressing C)
There are 2 things you see in regards to social points
A vertical bar 50/50 red or white( red bad/white good), so you make you choice and it that 50/50 changes to what ever decision you made, say it was good you get maybe 40 points light, so now you 0/40 etc
Then below that you have another bar sitting at 0, this is your social bar you get well I only got to social 2.8 I think, this goes up with each conversation you fully and that means no SPACE BAR listen to.
I will say I have not checked that if you space bar to each decision you still get the points, but I'm 80% sure you don't.
And you can pick up and get other rewards if you do get a good amount of social points, and the only way to get that is in a group, My social from 0 to level 2.6 I got leveling my toon 0 to 13 I played just with a buddy, from 13 I pretty much leveled alone but still painfully listened to every conversation, to pretty much level 35 and my scoal changed from roughly 2.6 to 2.8.
So light and dark points are not the same as social points, not sure if the one even impacts on the other, I don't think so.
