Poll
Question:
Now that most everyone has had a chance to use the Karma feature, do you think we should keep it or get rid of it?
Option 1: Keep It
votes: 18
Option 2: Get Rid of It
votes: 18
Karma was enabled on this forum due to user input and I thought it was a good time to get some user input again. This poll will run for one week to try and get a feeling for how it's working out.
I think it's fun but not everyone shares this opinion. I don't know if the forum's software has the capability to do this, but ideally posters could opt in or out of having karma enabled. That way if you don't want to deal with it, you can just turn it off.
It's a good point that you don't want it to have a chilling effect on new users. I can see turning it off for that reason alone.
I'm torn, because it can give a new user the opportunity to quickly see if the poster provides worthwhile discussion. And for that, I think that it is a worthwhile feature.
However, as it is currently being used, it appears to be a system of people 'dinging' each other over opposing viewpoints. This forum should encourage all viewpoints, provided that each opposing viewpoint is willing to discuss as rational individuals.
I try to provide karma to someone who is talking about a legitimate topic and is providing value to the forum, even if I don't necessarily agree with them.
I can take it or leave it. I find it amusing, but not really indicative of the value of a poster. Guido is -666 (or so), and while I frequently disagree with his position and he has been a bit of an AOX style spam Nazi lately and he did pour sugar in my gas tank, he is at least reasoned in his opinions. ;)
Lose the karma, add a private thumbs up feature that is only visible to the two users involved. If you haven't got anything good to say, don't say it at all. If it's bad enough that a reasonable rebuttal in a comment isn't the right way to go, that's precisely why the button to report a post to the moderators exists.
And yes, as TURobY mentions, it would be nice to have if some weren't giving out bad karma either just for shits and giggles or because they disagree with a point of view, no matter how rationally presented and reasonably debated.
I am curious as to whether there's a concerted effort on the part of one or more posters (and their sock puppets?) to abuse the karma system so as to start this discussion and get it disabled.
the thumbs up comment gave me a thought, why not have just thumbs up and thumbs down on individual comments. Maybe a way to see who voted up or down. Would be more useful to people to see why others are having a problem with their postings.
Take it away. I've already had a hard enough time adjusting to the new format as it is. ::)
I've seen other boards where you at least know who gave you the plus or minus; some even have comments. When I first saw that system, I thought it was a joke -- it allows certain groups to quickly attack someone's rating (in that case, Rice Owl fans, the worst fans, er fan, on the interwebs). But overall, I think a board with a lot of traffic and different viewpoints balances that out.
I could go either way on this particular system. I don't like the anonymity, but at the same time, it does seem to deter a few trolls, while others seem to not care and go about their business.
I voted to get rid of it.
I enjoy it but I think it bothers a few posters and may keep them from participating.
I vote ney.
I think Karma serves some purpose.
In other forums I find that Karmic votes are passed not on what you say but on how you say it. I think the score can encourage a poster's manors more than anything.
We have a wealth of intelligence on both sides of every issue in this forum. That is rare for a local forum and shows a great deal of intellectual diversity for our little community. I think those who blast others with bad karma simply as a form of revenge are countered by those who truly have something to offer.
I award Karma in many instances to those I don't agree with based solely on how they present their opinion. I award bad karma for anger, language, and stupidity.
I view my fluctuating Karmic score as a reflection of my over all ability to present a point.
I think that as long as we all understand some basic principals for the use of Karma, we can find some benefit in it, and it can help us to preform better as a community. Sure there are those who will abuse it, but I believe we have more genuine participants than sycophants.
Together if we understand the ground rules we can ensure that scores are awarded according to merit by recognizing when someone is being unfairly targeted and countering the attack.
It adds another dimension of empowerment to the forum.
It also helps new posters to immediately identify respected members, and ignore the attacks and ideological violence of some.
I didn't vote, b/c "I don't care either way" wasn't an option.
A lot of people seem to view karma as some sort of junior high status symbol...taking and giving it as part of a weird attempt to prove something.
I assume that some folks are logging in just to "punish" people they don't like by repeatedly taking away their karma. And there are probably some "back room" deals being made as well: "I'll give you some if you give me some."
Ish. Grow up. Whatever.
I have used it to disapprove of childish or offensive behavior/language...but not a particular stance. I don't really have a policy for when to "give" karma. Hmmm... for bold and daring ideas? For well-argued positions? For being polite in the face of jerkitude? I'll have to think on that one.
In the corporate world, people get in a tizzy over who's got the corner office, the dual monitors, or a blackberry. On the internet, it seems, we must waste our energies on who's got the most imaginary "karma."
Another board I belong to allows you to opt out of it or keep it.
I opted out of it and would here too if given the choice. It reminds me of Jr. High people judging who the cool kids are and who the uncool kids are based on their biased opinion.
Karma is meaningless when it devolves into a pissing match or is used as a measure of popularity. A more accurate gauge is how articulate and reasoned an argument any participant posts here. They're not as easily quantified, and sometimes the posts here force us into thinking about issues in new, unexpected ways.
So my opinion is that karma should be deleted. It's a simplistic, inadequate measure of a diverse field of thought.
¿What karma feature?
(I just for the first time noticed "Approve/dissaprove" links.. perhaps that's what we're talkin' bout.
Its just another aspect of the forums. Kinda like a challenge. Can you say something witty enough to gather some up without being a suck-up?
That's why I like it. Maybe make it so that it can be ignored in the user preference??
It also makes it difficult to state your case in an argument when you have -eleventy-billion negative karma, and I like that too. LOL.
I have no problem with it. Interesting that Guido has so much negative, but that obviously has nothing to do with the quality of his posts, but rather to the incendiary nature of them and some rivalry stuff. Plainly, his viewpoints are not mainstream forum but neither are mine. There are some pretty lame posters (as far as quality of thought and expression) that have high karma rankings and some insightful, honest posters who never seem to get much karma. Mine has rested at 29 no matter what I say or who I agree/disagree with so I can't see any logic behind them. Kind of a student council popularity ranking. :)
They're harmless fun. We need more harmless fun. Keep 'em.
If your willing to use the feature you should be able to know who gave it to you.....Is the way it should work.....
Maybe an individual post + and - and you can see the Karma on their profile page only. The Karma allows people that are new to figure out who is kind of full of it.
I like the idea of karma, but it could use some modifications to discourage abuse. One, any given user should be able to turn it off for themselves (but keep the score they had if they turn it on again). Two, we should see who gave us karma in our user profile. This could incite karma wars, but hey that could be kind of fun. Which leads to three, limits on karma: you cannot karm a person twice in a row without karming say 10 other users in between, or maybe you can't karm a user more than once a day. Make em work for it if they're going to play that game. Another possibility is that your effect on someone's karma is proportional to your own karma. Users with negative karma would have little or no effect on others.
I think if we can't make the first two happen, then it should go away. The others are just things I have seen work well on other boards.
Facebook gives you the ability to "like" a comment or wall post, but there's not a corresponding "dislike" button. That kind of function -- connected to the individual post rather than the person -- would be more useful than karma for helping forum users find informative and helpful content.
I say keep it; it probably helps more than hurts.
- It's a feedback loop that people don't mind using
- It doesn't deter every troll, but it's easier to spot someone with "issues".
- I'd also argue that it cuts down on some of the ugly. Occam's razor...why write something nasty when it's much easier to just click a button? I am certain that at least a couple of people have toned it down a bit. How many threads have been shut down lately?
Bate's suggestion is a good one, if that's possible, but I'd say add the "like" feature to individual posts as an
enhancement, not necessarily a replacement. There's no magic bullet, but this karma thing is not terrible. Terrible is people crapping up good threads with petty bickering. I think there's less of that these days. JMO
I don't care one way or the utter. I'm always in the neg range anyhoo. Ask me if I care. Anyhoo, Since it's a extra feature we might as well keep it, some posters like that sort of stuff, or we can have a "opt in" or "opt out" feature on the profile page, so, for those who like it they can "opt in" and those who don't can "opt out" that way everyone should be happy. A win-win! :D
Quote from: MichaelBates on April 24, 2009, 11:52:03 AM
Facebook gives you the ability to "like" a comment or wall post, but there's not a corresponding "dislike" button. That kind of function -- connected to the individual post rather than the person -- would be more useful than karma for helping forum users find informative and helpful content.
I agree that this would be a useful feature.
That said I also like karma but it doesn't matter either way to me TBH.
Quote from: MichaelBates on April 24, 2009, 11:52:03 AM
Facebook gives you the ability to "like" a comment or wall post, but there's not a corresponding "dislike" button. That kind of function -- connected to the individual post rather than the person -- would be more useful than karma for helping forum users find informative and helpful content.
No hurt feelings Karma. I'd rather it go both ways. if you can add karma you should be allowed to subtract Karma. Or so it seems to me. :-X
A flippin' tie? Seriously? I've been watching this poll. Keep the karma. And throw some this di-rection while your'e here.
Quote from: Chicken Little on April 29, 2009, 12:02:06 AM
A flippin' tie? Seriously? I've been watching this poll. Keep the karma. And throw some this di-rection while your'e here.
Done. wow, I just noticed I'm down to 2 from 46 last week. Someone really doesn't like me very much.
:o
lol, I've shed 50 some. RM's shed like 80. Guido is almost -300. Someone enjoys clicking "disapprove" way too much.
Makes me chuckle.
Quote from: cannon_fodder on April 29, 2009, 08:54:45 AM
lol, I've shed 50 some. RM's shed like 80. Guido is almost -300. Someone enjoys clicking "disapprove" way too much.
Makes me chuckle.
I've dropped 50 some since I argued with the Troofers.
It's a conspiracy!
+1 for everyone just for being involved in this thread ;D
Quote from: Breadburner on April 24, 2009, 07:24:44 AM
If your willing to use the feature you should be able to know who gave it to you.....Is the way it should work.....
Mark this date... first time I've agreed with BB on any subject except music...
I vote Yay on the idea; Ney on its execution...
Karma is a rather liberal term for a forum about Tulsa... I prefer blessings and curses myself, but would settle for good rep/bad rep...
The way this is set up, there are no checks and balances, and the format can be easily manipulated...
I blame my bad karma on the Dallas Soccer Mafia and a not-so-vast right wing conspiracy... ;D
How on earth did your Karma get to negative 54?
Quote from: USRufnex on April 29, 2009, 07:20:28 PM
Mark this date... first time I've agreed with BB on any subject except music...
I vote Yay on the idea; Ney on its execution...
Karma is a rather liberal term for a forum about Tulsa... I prefer blessings and curses myself, but would settle for good rep/bad rep...
The way this is set up, there are no checks and balances, and the format can be easily manipulated...
I blame my bad karma on the Dallas Soccer Mafia and a not-so-vast right wing conspiracy... ;D
Good rep, bad rep? So we could have forum prudes and forum sluts?
Alright now lol. Just noticed my "Karma" and saw that it has dropped from,,, I think it was mid 40s to lower 50s, sometime in the last week or so, to negative! And I have hardly even been posting lol.
So from now on. Every single time I get on here. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveryone is getting bad Karma lol. Mark my words I get on here a lot. If I am going down, ya ALL goin down with me lol. :P
So go ahead, bring on the bad Karma. See where it gets ya. ;D
Bring it on, bring it on.
Quote from: Conan71 on April 29, 2009, 08:21:22 PM
Good rep, bad rep? So we could have forum prudes and forum sluts?
Bring it on... bring it on....
(http://www.ns-knt.com/swf/1465.jpg)
I've been watching the rate at which some of these drop. In some cases, it appears to be a single, very dedicated person. That's not exactly hard to deal with, if a few of y'all would make a half-*ssed effort to read and rate the work of your neighbors, the person doing this will give up and everybody'd be fine.
Some of us don't have the time... Why must I rate yay or ney to posts in a simple forum?
"Just say No" to Karma spam.
Quote from: USRufnex on April 29, 2009, 08:40:39 PM
Bring it on... bring it on....
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That looks like the entry that bankrupted me in the Kentucky Derby a few years back.
She has a cute face...
Quote from: Breadburner on April 29, 2009, 10:48:18 PM
She has a cute face...
The guy looks like Spielberg on crank.
Quote from: Conan71 on April 30, 2009, 12:54:41 AM
The guy looks like Spielberg on crank.
Or a 'happier' Charlie Manson.
I see people wanting to come up with a "why" regarding their karma scores but I doubt that even the Administrators could come up with an accurate answer. They might be able to say when and by whom karma was awarded but that still leaves complex diagnostic tests to come up with an accurate reason "why."
The karma function really lends itself to abuse and any reasoning about it is projection and futile. I find myself logging on to award karma to my favorite poster instead of focusing on issues and the content of threads.
I have a sack full of pictures I've pulled from my old scrap book and I had planned to start some threads using those pictures but karma has completely distracted me and come very close to breaking the spell TulsaNow originally cast on me. Karma is slowly but surely ruining TulsaNow for me.
And I do see this as an editorial decision on the part of the organizers and I don't believe it should be subject to a vote any more than say, voting on whether or not gay people should be allowed to participate in TulsaNow.
Karma is just plain wrong and TulsaNow should do the right thing and eliminate it as soon as possible.
While I like the idea of a better Karma system, the one that comes with this forum package has 3 modes (including off) and very little else. If you're reading this you may notice some totals looking different, that is just me exploring some options.
Quote from: Hometown on April 30, 2009, 08:42:40 AM
I see people wanting to come up with a "why" regarding their karma scores but I doubt that even the Administrators could come up with an accurate answer. They might be able to say when and by whom karma was awarded but that still leaves complex diagnostic tests to come up with an accurate reason "why."
We don't even know "Who" much less "Why"
Quote from: Hometown on April 30, 2009, 08:42:40 AM
And I do see this as an editorial decision on the part of the organizers and I don't believe it should be subject to a vote any more than say, voting on whether or not gay people should be allowed to participate in TulsaNow.
Karma is just plain wrong and TulsaNow should do the right thing and eliminate it as soon as possible.
The vote was because we had had some complaints and wanted to see what opinion really was since people who are unhappy are more likely to provide feedback. The 50/50 results was pretty surprising. The vote was not intended to be an official decision making method.
I am trying to figure out a way to modify the Karma system to make it worthwhile. Barring some great epiphany, it will likely be discontinued shortly.
I like the 50/50...it shows the shenanigans ::)
Now I'm required to do simple math. Cr@P!
Here ya go...
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ep_1fu31ku8/SbKGeapziBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/V3W193Afsyo/s320/Barbie+Math.jpg)
You know, I haven't voted yet... feeling very powerful right about now.... /snark.
Quote from: swake on April 29, 2009, 07:56:42 PM
How on earth did your Karma get to negative 54?
That was soooooooooo yesterday, Swake.
Netting a negative 59 so far today.
Get about 3-5 bad each day whether I post or not, pretty consistent since my April Fools' Day thread...
Most Online Today: 38. Most Online Ever: 79 (April 01, 2009, 03:25:22 pm) Dallas soccer mafia?... a Guido soccerpuppet right wing conspiracy?.... hmmm, maybe it's all you minor league baseball fans.... ;D
I am pretty sire there is an "Advanced Reputation System" mod for SMF on the official site, will look for a link later in the evening.
Karma Chameleon? :)
I don't get the two Karma numbers, the plus and the minus? ???
Quote from: sauerkraut on May 01, 2009, 03:33:00 PM
I don't get the two Karma numbers, the plus and the minus? ???
Nobody help him. He's not from around here. Ain't like us.
Make him think before he posts.
Something.
From now on, all of you are called "Earl".
Quote from: godboko71 on April 30, 2009, 04:53:38 PM
I am pretty sire there is an "Advanced Reputation System" mod for SMF on the official site, will look for a link later in the evening.
Here you go:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1129
Quote from: Conan71 on April 30, 2009, 12:54:41 AM
The guy looks like Spielberg on crank.
I thunk the same thing. A classic Spielburg when he's between pictures.
Whenever I give someone plus Karma, I wait an hour change my mind and then give them negative Karma. I call it the Karma Initiative. -jk.
OK, I give up. Karma is gone, replaced with Reputation Power. Now, I'm all for power provided it's concentrated in my hands alone, but what's this new gadget?
(UPDATED)
When I hover the mouse over the 'reputation' icon, I get, "Ed W has no influence".
Sometimes there's too much truth.
Woo, I got what I asked for..sorta. I got the "if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all" part.. ;D
Of course, I lost my hundred and thirtysomething good karma, but them's the breaks. ;)
Edited to add: To comment more productively, the 'reputation' template needs to be installed or something so the reputation view in the user's profile will work.
Edited again to add: And trying to use the reputation button sometimes results in a database error.
Edited once again to add: And apparently, you can only make one reputation action an hour, even if you are repping different people.
I've used the reputation module administering a SM forum before and it always caused database problems. If you guys can get it to work on a forum this size I'll be impressed.
I like the idea, hope it works.
Yeah, I'm still working on it (fingers crossed)
OK, someone is loading up evidently, or I must be really disliked. I checked my now newly negative Karma of neg 17 last night (after having a high of about plus 45 two weeks ago). I check it again now, it's -39.
I don't mind the Karma rating; really I think it's pointless. My point is it can be abused, and in this case it sure looks like it is being done. That could drive other people off.
I don't care for this new feature. I don't look down on Hoss and I think others do have influence on me whether it says so or not. Really, I think it may have been manipulated in the past. I also lost tremendous Karma coinciding with my posts on river development.
I change my vote. Get rid of any system that purports to rank or rate posters. I prefer the mystery of not knowing or at least convincing myself that the reason people don't always respond is that I have made my points so well that they all agree with me. :)
Quote from: Hoss on May 03, 2009, 12:39:21 PM
OK, someone is loading up evidently, or I must be really disliked. I checked my now newly negative Karma of neg 17 last night (after having a high of about plus 45 two weeks ago). I check it again now, it's -39.
I don't mind the Karma rating; really I think it's pointless. My point is it can be abused, and in this case it sure looks like it is being done. That could drive other people off.
Yeah, I'm already at -17 myself. Someone is messing with things. (or I pissed some people off, which is equally likely). If the template on the profile page worked, we could see who was doing it and why, if they bothered to input a comment.
That basically addresses my main annoyance with the whole thing, (if it worked) and should help to keep squabbles about the quality of a given post off the threads and in private messages.
It would be nice if the mod exposed reputation actions publicly, though. Then a user can see why another user has the reputation they do.
The Karma is gone now- anyone know what happened? ???
Quote from: sauerkraut on May 03, 2009, 01:39:30 PM
The Karma is gone now- anyone know what happened? ???
Try reading the thread.
LOL, I just got the bright idea to mouse over the green/red dot. Mine says "nathanm is looked down upon."
"waterboy has no influence."
Too funny.
Being looked down upon by those with no influence may actually be a good thing. Still, its a bit demeaning to us both. When will we start getting messages like, "You are possibly a racist" or "Others think you're a waste of band width" or even "Even other Socialists think you're kind of liberal"?
With the Karma, you were able to give good or bad Karma. How does this new system change from positive to negative?
Quote from: Wilbur on May 03, 2009, 02:21:38 PM
With the Karma, you were able to give good or bad Karma. How does this new system change from positive to negative?
Click the little heart, and all will be revealed.
There's an option to "agree" or "disagree" with a post and you even get to write a comment. If the template were working, you'd be able to see reputation actions done to you on your profile page, including the users who have repped you and their comments, if any.
Quote from: nathanm on May 03, 2009, 02:47:46 PM
Click the little heart, and all will be revealed.
There's an option to "agree" or "disagree" with a post and you even get to write a comment. If the template were working, you'd be able to see reputation actions done to you on your profile page, including the users who have repped you and their comments, if any.
Which in effect usually did one thing: promote karma wars.
Quote from: waterboy on May 03, 2009, 01:30:14 PM
I don't care for this new feature. I don't look down on Hoss and I think others do have influence on me whether it says so or not. Really, I think it may have been manipulated in the past. I also lost tremendous Karma coinciding with my posts on river development.
I change my vote. Get rid of any system that purports to rank or rate posters. I prefer the mystery of not knowing or at least convincing myself that the reason people don't always respond is that I have made my points so well that they all agree with me. :)
I agree, and I couldnt figure out what the meaning of the Karma thing was anyway?
I had really good Karma, then suddenly went to bad.... and I hadnt even really posted much and certainly hadnt posted anything during that time which could be construed as negative lol? Plus, you could say one thing, some people agree with it and others disagree, then say something else on a different thread and so on.... How would you know which thing it was that the "most" people didnt like or did like? You had no way of knowing what it was you were doing wrong (or even if you really were doing something wrong). Plus there could simply be people that dont like anything you say regardless and would give negative Karma just because lol. I think Conan71 and CannonFodder had a buddy thing going where they gave each other good Karma every time they saw the others posts lol.
Quote from: TheArtist on May 03, 2009, 06:28:44 PM
I agree, and I couldnt figure out what the meaning of the Karma thing was anyway?
I had really good Karma, then suddenly went to bad.... and I hadnt even really posted much and certainly hadnt posted anything during that time which could be construed as negative lol? Plus, you could say one thing, some people agree with it and others disagree, then say something else on a different thread and so on.... How would you know which thing it was that the "most" people didnt like or did like? You had no way of knowing what it was you were doing wrong (or even if you really were doing something wrong). Plus there could simply be people that dont like anything you say regardless and would give negative Karma just because lol. I think Conan71 and CannonFodder had a buddy thing going where they gave each other good Karma every time they saw the others posts lol.
No offense to either of those guys, but when I read that the first thing I could think of was 'BroMance'....and I can't for the life of me remember where I first saw that term. Might have been on Versus Sports Soup (usually played after NHL games on Versus).
I know, I know, it's wrong! Apologies to CF and Conan!
lol.
Conan didn't need my karma help. The guy has dropped from the face of the posting world and still had more Karma than I did. Or maybe I should say "and that's why he had more karma . . ."
If I had a super secret karma ring, it failed me.
BroMance, that's pretty funny, actually.
There was a weird pattern for the karma. I think some posters would simply log on to knock off karma or if they saw a post from someone they typically agree with would click a neg before seeing if their current post had merit.
I think a rating system is pretty silly, but I'm just 1/36 of the equation.
There are alot of those man-centric phrases flaoting around right now
"guyliner" as in "THe Cure and Adam Lambert like to rock their eyliner"
"manscaping": the act of trimming one's body hair
"man stand" positioning oneself to catch the attention of the opposite sex
"manicorn" a fictional creature that fulfills a woman's ideal of a male
"mangina" from Deuce Bigalo
"dude-terus"
My red dot is pretty grim it says I'm looked down upon, I'm bad news. :-X
I'd rather have the Karma thing back. I never gave anyone any neg. Karma clicks.
Quote from: Conan71 on May 04, 2009, 09:51:58 AM
BroMance, that's pretty funny, actually.
There was a weird pattern for the karma. I think some posters would simply log on to knock off karma or if they saw a post from someone they typically agree with would click a neg before seeing if their current post had merit.
I think a rating system is pretty silly, but I'm just 1/36 of the equation.
Um, sorry bud, but your little dot says "Conan71 has no influence." ;D
How is the new system supposed to work?
Quote from: Gold on May 05, 2009, 11:28:17 AM
How is the new system supposed to work?
I don't think it does as of yet.
I sort of figured that. I didn't know if I was supposed to make lots of funny strained facial expresions in an effort to direct karma towards certain people or not. Then again, if that's how the system worked, I'd think you might have better uses for it than this board. ;)
-1 for 'reputation power'.
"this person is looked down upon".
Really?
Quote from: mjchamplin on May 06, 2009, 09:09:42 AM
-1 for 'reputation power'.
"this person is looked down upon".
Really?
Yeah you might change that up a little bit to "This person is probably Guido" or something like that. No seriously.. Looked down upon is a little harsh.
As far as I know this new system has never been explained. I don't know what's up with it. All I know is when I click on my red it says "I'm not in favor" or something like that. Whatever- Ask me if I care. :D
It works much like the old Karma system as far as how your rated (this person clicked negative and these three have clicked possitive, so you have a rating of +2). You have to click on the heart to bring up the option of approving or not. You also have the option of a comment, though the full system isn't running so you can't see the comments yet (or I haven't figured out how to).
I'm not a fan of blanket statements about people being "looked down upon" or whatever. I might disagree with some posters, but that doesn't mean I don't respect them. (And, yes, there are some I don't respect, but who cares? Besides, I might agree with them later on in some other post.)
I'm turning it off for the time being until I can figure some bugs out. As far as I can tell it's not really providing the features "as advertised"
Quote from: PonderInc on May 06, 2009, 10:32:08 AM
I'm not a fan of blanket statements about people being "looked down upon" or whatever. I might disagree with some posters, but that doesn't mean I don't respect them. (And, yes, there are some I don't respect, but who cares? Besides, I might agree with them later on in some other post.)
I feel the same way. There should be some other title there for that. Perhaps just a simple "Low Reputation rating" or along those lines
Many people seem to take these forums all to serious. It's just a place to chat. I don't care what my Karma is or is not. :)
Quote from: sauerkraut on May 07, 2009, 02:47:02 PM
Many people seem to take these forums all to serious. It's just a place to chat. I don't care what my Karma is or is not. :)
O rly?
How do you explain this then?
http://www.tulsanow.org/forum/index.php?topic=12872.msg122596#msg122596
Quote from: Admin on May 06, 2009, 10:42:57 AM
I'm turning it off for the time being until I can figure some bugs out. As far as I can tell it's not really providing the features "as advertised"
Leave it alone dude. Why keep bucking with it? Get a life.
Instead of Karma, is there a module that will allow us to send negative thoughts and make people's heads explode?
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Quote from: Hoss on May 07, 2009, 02:52:48 PM
O rly?
How do you explain this then?
http://www.tulsanow.org/forum/index.php?topic=12872.msg122596#msg122596
Nothing wrong with a boost up- I can take it or leave it. Ask me if I care.
Looks like it's off line now. Some other forums I post at have a feature in our profiles that let posters opt out of Karma if they wish. That seems like a win-win to me, and it should make everyone happy, The Karma fans can opt in and others who don't like it can opt out.
Quote from: sauerkraut on May 08, 2009, 10:32:21 AM
Nothing wrong with a boost up- I can take it or leave it. Ask me if I care.
I don't need to; that post did it for you.
You cannot really be that dense, can you?
Quote from: Hoss on May 08, 2009, 10:54:00 AM
I don't need to; that post did it for you.
You cannot really be that dense, can you?
Hoss, troll feeding hours on this forum are limited to the second Sunday of every week. Please observe these simple rules.
Quote from: Conan71 on May 08, 2009, 11:13:21 AM
Hoss, troll feeding hours on this forum are limited to the second Sunday of every week. Please observe these simple rules.
Hangs head in shame....
I promise.
Ooh, this coming Sunday is that!
;D