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duke of angels
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If all we're worried about is people who are abusing the system to raise their Karma isn't it obvious when someone is doing this? Their karma increases drastically over a short period of time or they're getting tons of karma without making many posts and the comments in their karma are bogus. Couldn't an admin just look at a suspect profile and remove their karma? The more elite members and even newer members would notice someone giving bogus information with tons of karma too and allow us to report karma whores... if you think someone's karma is inflated too much just take it away and even things out. This all around fix benefits people with inflated karma because new members like me don't really have much and it certainly doesn't makes sense to lose karma for giving kudos... getting the karma and recognition even for decent posts (rather then only extremely good posts or more then likely extremely good posts which actually help me personally) is what keeps members coming back not the karma itself. High karma just helps me recognize people who have been here longer and have made more quality posts (in theory: they could have bought it all... which confuses me on what karma is really for), but even then I still look at the information they provide critically.
In conclusion my question is: What is karma intended to be for?
1.) If it's meant distinguish long term quality members and supporters of the site the current system is fine with the ability to moderate scammers.
2.) If it's solely meant to earn money for the site by way of donating cash for karma, I could care less what you do with it because it loses intrinsic value at that point. It's basicly cash green dot cash... which I would be more then happy to give away! But somehow I think I would end up with 0 karma because people will be afraid they'll lose their standing in the community and give any in return. Even if they did... I'd probably end up even at best.
Right now is seems like a combination of both... but with these changes it seems more like number 2 which is why my first impression of these changes was negative. Having karma = cash in many ways and having karma = standing in the community really confuses the issue!
In conclusion my question is: What is karma intended to be for?
1.) If it's meant distinguish long term quality members and supporters of the site the current system is fine with the ability to moderate scammers.
2.) If it's solely meant to earn money for the site by way of donating cash for karma, I could care less what you do with it because it loses intrinsic value at that point. It's basicly cash green dot cash... which I would be more then happy to give away! But somehow I think I would end up with 0 karma because people will be afraid they'll lose their standing in the community and give any in return. Even if they did... I'd probably end up even at best.
Right now is seems like a combination of both... but with these changes it seems more like number 2 which is why my first impression of these changes was negative. Having karma = cash in many ways and having karma = standing in the community really confuses the issue!
Not to mention the 500,000 k hits.
