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

[George Spellwin]

#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.

Right, the idea is to inhibit pointless hitting instead of rewarding quality posts.

 

[black sheep]

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.

All the Karma inflation happened in Chat, and to be honest - there is no real useful info there. Maybe karma should only be allowed to be traded in certain forums...

At any rate - the C&C crowd has taken advantage of the Karma system and made it into something it was not designed to be.

 

[George Spellwin]

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.

That is a good idea. You know, there is a calendar already - see the link at the bottom of the page. Please start a new thread on how we can make it better.

 

[black sheep]

Right, the idea is to inhibit pointless hitting instead of rewarding quality posts.

Exactly!

 

[black sheep]

People that threaten to drop their membership because they loose some green dots is... (What do you C&C Folks say?.....) GEIGH

 

[Deterass]

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.

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Hell no!

The red hits could stay the same way. I haven't seen many problems with abusing the Karma system with the red hits in C&C. In MOST cases we blast the spammers or just some asshole who deserved it.

 

[blut wump]

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.

Indeed, I posted a thread about the pyramid scam and a mod locked it because the topic of conversation was Karma.

 

[George Spellwin]

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?

hammy,

These are all good ideas. And this is just a dialog on the future of Karma.

 

[blut wump]

Right, the idea is to inhibit pointless hitting instead of rewarding quality posts.

The idea is clear, the implementation needs more thought. It doesn't encourage any hitting.

 

[blut wump]

All the Karma inflation happened in Chat, and to be honest - there is no real useful info there. Maybe karma should only be allowed to be traded in certain forums...

At any rate - the C&C crowd has taken advantage of the Karma system and made it into something it was not designed to be.

See Hammy's post. These past few months, Karma inflation has been encouraged.