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

[George Spellwin]

I dont like Number 6 at all.

The handing out of Karma will cease. Rewards will go away period. Because if I can spend my karma on the bookie forum or playing poker...then why would I give it away.

Not to mention it puts new guys at a disadvantage. They definitely wont be getting any hits if cost a veteran his k.

Bad idea. A lot of things have changed since I've been gone...some good...some bad...but I really do not like this idea.

Think about it like this, since you are Plat and have Karmic Power of 93, you could give someone a 10% hit and it would cost you 9 Karma Hits out of your 67,000 total. That's not much to reward a good post.

 

[black sheep]

#6 I can't see why I would reward any post or, at best, very infrequently and only in gratitude for personal assistance. I think this idea really, really sucks, mostly because it inhibits hitting. I would just comment in the thread that it was a good post. IMO, you really don't want to be discouraging hitting like this.

Do you want to get into a situation where people say "Give me Karma and I'll solve your problem"?

We discussed in the thread the aspect of moving the decimal point and I dislike that idea too for the reasons there stated.

I disagree.

If treated like currency people would spend it wisely, not just throw it around like monopoly money.

 

[hamstershaver]

el o el

 

[George Spellwin]

I don't know why but this much thought being put into karma makes me want to drop my membership.
I come to the site to support others with their dieting, bodybuilding etc.
Karma is fun. When I see it given this much attention it gives me the impression the site is not what I thought it was.
That is just my innitial response.

This is a good point. When we came up with Karma, we did not know it would be so big. This is to try to get it back to where it used to be - a way for Plats to help the mods and for members to reward quality posts.

Last week, we uncovered, if you can believe it, a Karma Ponzi scheme - these ideas are designed to make the system more rational again.

 

[George Spellwin]

How about those who invested in lifetime plat? Do we get an additional 5K per month?

We would certainly do something for Lifers.

 

[nycgirl]

I have a non- K suggestion (while I have your attention).

Is it possible to create a calendar like thread (especially in the Women's Forum), so people can add their show (figure, bb, powerlifting) events with details just in case people would like to attend. Threads about meet-ups can be there as well.

Just a thought.

 

[pintoca]

good ideas.

lets get those t-shirts!

you know you really wanted to say thong instead cornbrolio

 

[George Spellwin]

Red should have a standard deduction amount. And that deduction should go to EF, not to the person hitting you with the red. Red should be worth 100 no matter what - If someone hits you with red, 100 points are deducted from your total.

Something along those lines. I could spend my whole life in the Anabolic board and get 50,000 karma. Then go over to the Chad board and make a post that 5 people diagree with and under the current system they could clean me out.

Exactly, that is the problem with the inflation that has happened.

 

[blut wump]

I disagree.

If treated like currency people would spend it wisely, not just throw it around like monopoly money.

Define spend.

We really don't want to get into a situation where people are trading/selling help and info for Karma. Worse still, someone might give help and then resent not getting some Karma from it. The idea sucks. Hitting is good, makes people feel happy and should be encouraged by the system.

 

[hamstershaver]

who came up with the idea to raise the hits you could give per day from 5 to 20 now up to 30?
who came up with the idea to increase everyones k power by including things like join date and post count, it used to be determined by k total
who came up with the idea to let plat members hit other members up to 110%?
who came up with the idea to lower the spread number from 40 to 15?
who came up with the idea to allow members to transfer their karma to another members account?
and you wonder where karma inflation came from?
the answer is admin
you created this monster and now you are complaining about how the members use it?