Revamp of karma system.

[Flaming_Arrow]

I think a limit on postcount to give karma is actually quite silly. Why?:
a) If a newbie abuses karma we can quite easily stop/reverse it.
b) If a newbie gets genuine help from person X, person X should still be rewarded.

on the other hand, newbie could neg karma everyone

[doboman]

I think a limit on postcount to give karma is actually quite silly. Why?:
a) If a newbie abuses karma we can quite easily stop/reverse it.
b) If a newbie gets genuine help from person X, person X should still be rewarded.

on the other hand, newbie could neg karma everyone

I think she answered that in her above post. With the karma system, i  think it should be about ranking a post. For example: (name) helps on the math board. It proves helpful to somebody, and they rank it (1-5). If the average ranking is 4; the person should get 1 karma. If the average post ranking is 5; person gets 2 karma ect ect. Similarly, if the rank is 1; the person gets -2 karma....

That way, to maintain a positive karma, people are expected to have posts that are ranked 3 or above (this also decreases the amount of rubbish posts out there). I don't even know if this could be implemented, but it sounds good in my mind =P.

[shinny]

That'd keep a good record of epic VN posts too ;] (if there was a sort/search by rating function implemented of course)

[dcc]

There doesn't seem to be any SMF mods able to achieve this sort of functionality, but I'll write something over the midyear break (since I'm and expert at things like that).

[excal]

I personally like the post usefulness piece.

Alternatively, we can implement something similar to Whingepool where each person can assign a person a level of 'aura' once. The levels get averaged and processed into an aura 'level' that lives in the profile (NOT on posts).

[ninwa]

I think she answered that in her above post. With the karma system, i  think it should be about ranking a post. For example: (name) helps on the math board. It proves helpful to somebody, and they rank it (1-5). If the average ranking is 4; the person should get 1 karma. If the average post ranking is 5; person gets 2 karma ect ect. Similarly, if the rank is 1; the person gets -2 karma....

That way, to maintain a positive karma, people are expected to have posts that are ranked 3 or above (this also decreases the amount of rubbish posts out there). I don't even know if this could be implemented, but it sounds good in my mind =P.

I really like this idea ... is it possible?

[kurrymuncher]

not in this economic crises

[xXNovaxX]

Sorry to revive this thread, but could something/people contribute suggestions to stop useless karma.

If you look at many people, they have been victims...if thats the right word, of RANDOM smites. I think Karma should really be something to show someones reputations and helpfulness.

Maybe defaming somebody for no reason should be put on the rule board? Or a system where we can ask a mod to un-do this karma action if they agree it was un-justified. This idea (the mod one) does seem like a pain in the back-side, so it shouldn't really be implemented, but I was saying SOMETHING like that.

Maybe users who remove karma for no reason can be warned? Remember when that skotter person was banned? He had defamed many pplz after posting 50 or w/e (therefore having the privilege to), and once banned, all his smite was undone, that is something which I am suggesting.

Maybe for example, only the OP can give a karma point for the contributor if they think they have been useful/helpful. For example, I post a thread....i get 10 replies, i give karma to those people for the replies?

But I don't think full system reset is fair, especially, for those who have worked hard to gt it e.g. True Tears, Ninwa, Coblin, Exaclibur, flaming arrow etc amongst others.

But if a reset is to happen, it should coincide with a revamp which prohibits random smiting.

[excal]

No-one cares about karma, anyway. It's merely a tool for measuring one's e-peen when one cares about it too much.

[Edmund]

It's a VN culture to +1 TrueTears everyday.

[Gloamglozer]

It's a VN culture to +1 TrueTears everyday.

TT is like the God of VN.  Karma-ring him everyday is like tribute, much like what the Aztecs did but less epic - and brutal of course.