Making changes to how Karma works - we want your feedback.

[redguru]

Regarding the Karma Bookie and the accumulation of the betted Karma with the bookie for the duration of the event, maybe the bets could go into limbo until payout. This would be better than taxation.

That's a great idea. Escrow the bets until settled.

 

[Behemoth]

You could devise ways for larger amounts of Karma to be spent.

You could levy Karma taxes...accept in the "Elite World"...the rich could be more heavily taxed.

You could make it mandatory that after you reach so much Karma you must donate some or face losing it.

Anything but change number 6

 

[SoreArms]

create some sort of karma trade in (trade in k for prices, plat or whatever) and then start over with a new slower increase formula.

or keep everyone where they're at and still make a karma trade in program with desireable items that are somewhat low cost to the site. maybe chunks of karma can be used as a real money discount for plat memberships instead of entirely purchased with karma.

 

[redguru]

create some sort of karma trade in (trade in k for prices, plat or whatever) and then start over with a new slower increase formula.

or keep everyone where they're at and still make a karma trade in program with desireable items that are somewhat low cost to the site. maybe chunks of karma can be used as a real money discount for plat memberships instead of entirely purchased with karma.

Similar to the raffle program I suggested. Set up prizes that cost so much karma per raffle ticket. IPOD nanos, E-Books, Let the sponsors kick in some prizes from thier stores.

 

[Mr. dB]

I think you're suffering from cognitive dissonance. You have contradictory ideas about what karma is for and where it should go. You seem concerned that it's lost its primary use, to show approval for good posts, yet you want to make it a fun game with bookies and casinos and score sheets in our user panels. I think you want to have your cake and eat it too.

 

[Mr. dB]

In the future you will not be getting green for me on posts like this. While I find them hilarious they are not "quality" posts

Low Quality is a kind of quality...

 

[gjohnson5]

now i see you are advertising that cotb get 40 hits per day with a spread # of 5 and they can hit at 200% so they could hit someone 8x a day
and yet you are complaining about karmic inflation
im starting to think you are just joking about this thread after i read the hitting capabilities of the cotb

Hey Hammy.
Of all the members on elite , how many of them are chairman? or better yet , how many of them have paid for it?

Also how many people have spent say $500+ dollars on karma before cotb was implemented? I'm probably the only one who has done both....

I don't think cotb or karma purchasing has creating a problem that didn't exist before these were implemented.

One think I'd like to see is that the big boys and girls on here who know alot about fitness, diet, gear and what not return to those forums and spend thier time there to teach the new folks. If all the real knowledge of elite is sitting in C&C BSing instead of thier forums of expertise sharing thier ideas then maybe K in C&C should be taxed.

I am going to start giving 200% K hits on the diet/weight training and medical boards so that it can be spread evenly.

 

[blut wump]

Ok, but that does not solve the inflation issue - just slows the problem down.

That depends entirely on how you change the function. At one extreme you could make it a flat one point per hit or account for Karma holdings at one point per 100,000K or 1 per million.

So long as you have at least as much K leaving the system through the store and gambling losses as is being created across the whole member base then you have deflation. Exactly how much is being created is not relevant so long as more is leaving the system than being created. It also doesn't matter if a small few choose to hoard their K so long as their hits are catered for.

You could even have the formula be monitored and varying daily or weekly according to Karma drainage. It could even be different for each person depending on how often they hit and for how much. There really is no need for these considerations of taxing hits until aspects of the formula have been examined.

The formula creates inflation, nothing else does besides Karma purchases.

 

[chesty]

bonds

 

[Mr. dB]

If karma hits are to be taxed, or if karma hits are to come out of our karma totals, then to be fair there would have to be some sort of karma income or allowance or trust fund.