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Digital Paint Community => Other Stuff => Topic started by: y00tz on July 13, 2007, 02:13:07 AM
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It's been a few months since the forum karma system has been removed. This isn't a petition to restore karma, although I'd like to see it. This is just a small analysis of the benefits that system had.
A lot of the complaints against karma were that a new user could join the forum, make 2 worthless posts, and within 20 minutes have a +0/-12 rating.
Plain and simple, that means the system works.
A user who has contributed nothing should have a negative rating, the lowest of ratings. Once this newbie user starts posting legitimate content, people will change their ratings toward them.
Karma: What goes around, comes around.
The more forum newbies go around posting junk, the more junk gets pushed into their karma.
I believe the rating system promotes good posts.
When newbies strive to attain a high karma, they'll work harder on their posts. I know Soldier once had a +0/-10, then he began asking how to raise it, so we gave him pointers. When he started following it our suggestions got a few pluses. Because of karma we turned Soldier into a useful forum member, who doesn't post random stuff every 15 seconds.
There were some who claimed they didn't care about their karma, and it was reflected. People with very few +'s and a lot of -'s, clearly post worthless criticism or unnecessary personal flames. Can you think of anyone recently banned with a 'good' karma? I can think of a few banned recently with notably bad karma.
Too much on forums do people think, 'hey, they have a high post count, they must be someone too listen too' This is not always the case, more so on this forum then others I belong to. A karma rating adds validity to posts made by posters.
What if you posted an idea in the feature request forum, and a person with a bad karma said it was bad, what would you think? It's obvious they criticize a lot, and therefore you shouldn't be discouraged by their post. And on the flipside, someone with a +0/-50 rating who tells you they like their idea means more probably, than someone with a +5/-5 who probably gives a superfluous amount of compliments .
I don't know why I posted this, other than to note that the karma system was something that I thoroughly enjoyed using as a reference when I was newer, and I'm sorry to have seen it go.
Cheers,
y00tz.
*will edit for grammar, content, and y00tzisms later.
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Oh, wait. That's gone. Yeah, I agree, for the most part. The one downside is something like Skater's case, where he tries to get a negative karma. Personally, I think at that point, banning is a pretty good action.
I don't think that someones opinion should be entirely regarded or disregarded based on their karma, but that is something that'll come into play.
I think that maybe, if karma were to come back, people should be able to vote for a week or two without the actual karma values being displayed, just to get a baseline for each user before the karma is pushed in.
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I agree, altough I always had the same amount of positive, than negative :(
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I liked your 4th of July map, could you do one for my birthday?
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Wow, way to keep the conversation on topic.
PS: And dont give me the 'ITS OTHER STUFF' speech.
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Wow, way to keep the conversation on topic.
PS: And dont give me the 'ITS OTHER STUFF' speech.
Ok, sorry about that. But how can I keep anything on-topic when I haven't even read anything on this topic?
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The karma system doesn't work.
It would work if everyone was honest about their ratings (an older, more mature, community), but that's not the case.
It becomes a popularity contest at best.
People will + anyone they like regardless of post content, and minus those they don't like otherwise.
In confession, I gave a minus to everyone, almost all the time, regardless of anything to do with anything.
Was I wrong, sure, but the system doesn't work, proof.
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Ok, sorry about that. But how can I keep anything on-topic when I haven't even read anything on this topic?
Read the thread before posting?
The smart thing would have been searching his flag thread, and posting it there.
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Ok, sorry about that. But how can I keep anything on-topic when I haven't even read anything on this topic?
Send me a private message (PM) next time.
Up at the top where it says something like:
Hey, playe3r1, you have 922 messages, 0 are new.
Click that and address the message to me then type and send.
Cheers,
y00tz
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Or click his name to view his profile, and click on "Send a Personal Message".
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Or click on this link: http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=547
:P :D