Dump the karma system.

[Shadowgandor]

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I find it useless

>>karma<<

[waflz]

i haven't seen any options pertaining to karma since the 'upgrade' and i think some jackass took it away from me

[_Equilibrium_]

usually, its pretty accurate. however, this forum seems to have quite a few people who just use it for fun and not its intended purpose. so, yes, it's useless.

[+ OPTIMUS +]

if you dont like it, just ignore it... i think its not that disturbing...

[Rocinante]

I'll guess that once people get over its existence and the initial "ooh, shiny" factor, it may eventually turn into a semi-useful way to gauge someone's posts based on previous posting content.  Though a tie-in to ignore people with karma below a certain number would be nice, it wouldn't be useful until the karma hits a somewhat accurate level, which could take some time.  I'd likely be happier with a general ignore list/killfile.

[Annihilation]

Don't kill karma   I'm on a mission to get -100 without actually posting anything degrading or insultive.  So far I've reached -5 from 3 posts :O

[Make]

On the other forums I've been on the karma system works quite well.

I think the karma abuse is in part caused by those who come here with the 'digg' mentality, those who consider it acceptable to 'ragg' on someone who's opinions are different or because of a personal agenda or just on a whim.

But anyway I think that  Rocinante is right, most of it is still the 'newness' of it all. It might be a good idea to reset the karma meters once the community settles into it.

[[Kcorp]Noobius]

wtf is karma? oO

[Lava Croft]

I find it useless

A lot of things are useless, yet hang around on this forum.

[Steely Ann]

Dump the karma system?!!!1112

*smite*

[Annihilation]

come on people -8?  you can do better than that I'm power for god sake.  Even thridstreet is beating me Oo

[Ryanw4390]

Make it so only moderators/admins can give karma. If someone does something good (help someone with a question, etc.) they get + karma. If they spam, flame, etc, they get - karma. Once new moderates are needed again, the Karma thing would come into play and make their decision easier.

[Paradox]

Make it so only moderators/admins can give karma. If someone does something good (help someone with a question, etc.) they get + karma. If they spam, flame, etc, they get - karma. Once new moderates are needed again, the Karma thing would come into play and make their decision easier.

As a moderator, i like this. heh.

[epsy]

Make it so only moderators/admins can give karma. If someone does something good (help someone with a question, etc.) they get + karma. If they spam, flame, etc, they get - karma. Once new moderates are needed again, the Karma thing would come into play and make their decision easier.

too munch work :/

[n00b pl0x]

OMG IM SMITING YOU FOR CREATING THIS TOPIC, FAGGOT.

[Ryanw4390]

Make it so only moderators/admins can give karma. If someone does something good (help someone with a question, etc.) they get + karma. If they spam, flame, etc, they get - karma. Once new moderates are needed again, the Karma thing would come into play and make their decision easier.

too munch work :/

Maybe you should let the admins decide that... It's probably pretty easy to do, stuff like that can be done with invision boards VERY easily.

[Paradox]

In my experience with SMF, restricting Karma to a specific class is quite easy.

[Yahoo]

Make it so only moderators/admins can give karma.

agreed

everytime i remember the feature i attack applejuices

[sSopris]

So far it seems fine. We haven't had any people spontaneously flip in huge red font size about how they are going to kill themselves because their's went down a point.

Besides, its fun to see how many people have been clicking the smite button on others.

[Steely Ann]

Holy shit, Anni, I giggled like a fool after that reminded me of Mitchell Henderson for some reason.

[sleekslacker]

you deserve a ban moron.

[thirdstreettito]

Dump Karma.

[PIE]

I think the reason why people want karma gone is because they have negative karma :p. People are just smiting each other left and right and not applauding so of course it will get unbalanced if you don't give people recognition for good posts. I think generally the people who like or don't like you will persist though and that is how it will turn out.. which isn't really indicative of community opinion in a lot of cases. I think its a neat feature but its along the lines of post count in the amount of usefulness as far as i see it so far...
though the only place I've really seen play out long term is on the }MG{ forum and everyone knows each other pretty well and we understand negative scores are just people playing around with each other so i don't know if it will actually become useful as people say. I just see several good posters with crappy karma so i'd have to say it isn't working right now though..

[Shadowgandor]

I think the reason why people want karma gone is because they have negative karma :p.

ya think? xD

[gareth]

they have already taken our avatars! do not let them have our karma!

[Lava Croft]

they have already taken our avatars! do not let them have our karma!

Shang Tsung will devour your soul!

[Tycho]

I don't want to start a topic to this and I find this topic to be a suitable place to ask this: How the hell do I give karma?? I can't find a button or sth. Yeah, I'm that stupid, but srsly pls tell me  

[tuple]

You need to have X number of posts before you can modify karma, X being a number that I don't know.  More than you have, less than I have
Someone mentioned 100, though I haven't verified.

[Tycho]

You need to have X number of posts before you can modify karma, X being a number that I don't know.  More than you have, less than I have
Someone mentioned 100, though I haven't verified.

ah, kk, ty (does this goes to avatars too? )

[Steely Ann]

Avatars appear to be reserved for modmins and the devs, Tycho.

This makes me a saaaaaaaaad panda, of course.