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

[eat big]

Harping back onto #6, imagine two guys, A and B, with equal Karma. A helps B and B gives Karma to A. A little later B helps A and A gives Karma to B.

After these exchanges they each have less Karma than when they started. #6 discourages hitting.

What if A is an asshole and doesn't want to dig into his stash to give away karma to helpful posts?


I'd be B in that situation.

 

[silverfish]

George, you say there is too much karma in the system. Then you offer people more k for their money if they buy it, WTF.

Let us cash in karma at the current going rate, direct deposit to our bank accounts. Problem solved.

 

[George Spellwin]

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

I'm just trying to understand why not? You could give him anywhere from 63 to 700 and in addition to what you get from other members, the Bookie Forum, Casino, Poker etc. you get 5,000 more every month when you renew your Platinum Membership. There should be plenty to play with.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

3 words: Karma Lock Box.

 

[gotmilk]

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.

All my karma whoring has been turned into bookie bets...and hopefully karma casino in the future. Not everyone abuses the whoring. The funny thing is why have so much karma and do nothing with it?

I'd suggest George reduce the number of times a person can hit daily. Maybe create a reverse karma split...like one for four. Readjust the karma power by four too.

Part of the current problem is because people had multiple accounts and then transferred karma to their main account. Hence...why the huge gap.

 

[swole]

George, please don't implement the bookie house juice suggestion. The bookie forum does not create karma, it only distributes it amongst members. This might be a discussion for another day, but I PM'd BRR a short list of suggestions for that forum. We karma bookies and frequent customers take great pride in that little niche forum. When you decide to upgrade that forum, get a hold of me.

The ONLY thing that affects karma being introduced into the system is karmic power. The ONLY way to slow down the rate at which karma is being introduced is to rework the KP formula so it does not rise as fast. Let us keep our karma, we earned it using the guidelines set forth by EF admins. I do like the changes in karma price.

 

[redguru]

If you are creating a bookie tax, don't tax the bets, tax only winnings. The other bookies and I are risking our karma "capital" by hosting the events, adding a tax only further penalizes those of us who frequent that forum and keep it alive.

 

[Cynical Simian]

Raise the prices of bombs and plat memberships etc. (EDIT: through the karma store that is.) I like that more than adjusting the karma point system.

First, don't change anything about the bookie forum. Thanks mainly to swole, 4everhung, and redguru, that place runs as smoothly as any forum on EF and, as swole mentioned, doesn't contribute to inflation.

I like eat big's idea quoted above. Increasing the price of bombs, etc. would decrease the advantage that high-K people have over the rest if it cost a larger portion of their karma to, say, black out someone's posts. That, ostensibly, is what you're trying to correct with the system.

#6 is completely absurd. Karma/reputation/whatever systems on forums are a reflection of the value creation that occurs when people exchange information, converse, etc.

If one of the things people enjoy about the forum is finding ways to collect karma, I say let them do it as long as they don't negatively impact others in doing so. Karma power seems to be the main culprit in inflation; decreasing the number of hits per day and/or the rate at which K power increases are simple and should be sufficient.

 

[hamstershaver]

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

 

[eat big]

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

Check my user title.
K.R.E.A.M. = Karma Rules Everything Around Me