Author Topic: Forum Karma Feature (Read 2125 times)

Clean · « **on:** April 05, 2011, 09:06 PM »

RADsters,

I am a member of an online gaming clan (see Sig); we have played the CoD series on PC since CoD 1 in 2003. We have our own Website and Forums, and our Forum engine allows you to "Applaud" or "Smite" people.

Effectively you can thank someone for helping you out, or the opposite; the result is a "Karma" Rating which shows the number of +s and -s you have received. I suspect that you can change the language used in the engine so that it does not have to be "Karma", "Applaude" and "Smite", given that I have seen similar elsewhere but with a different theme to the diction.

Given what a helpful bunch you lot are, I have been disappointed a few times now that I could not give people + points on their Karma.

The idea is not to promote any sort of competition; it's just a nice way to say "thank you" and a fun way to say "stop taking the piss out of me"!

Anyways, I joust thought I would mention it as an idea for consideration.

Cheers,

Clean.

Robbo · « **Reply #1 on:** April 05, 2011, 09:16 PM »

Not a bad idea, they run this on the bmxmuseum.

billstup · « **Reply #2 on:** April 05, 2011, 09:28 PM »

Nope it`s a bad idea on here, some people end up on -100

griff · « **Reply #3 on:** April 05, 2011, 10:09 PM »

I'd probably get that just for having an elina

Robbo · « **Reply #4 on:** April 05, 2011, 10:16 PM »

Quote from: billstup on April 05, 2011, 09:28 PM

Nope it`s a bad idea on here, some people end up on -100

I can see what you mean Bill, but if each feedback had a one line narrative explaining the reason it could be possible to prevent any misuse?

Clean · « **Reply #5 on:** April 05, 2011, 10:18 PM »

The way this feature works on other forums, you just state "+1 Karma" or "-1 Karma" at the end of your post; the reason for the Karma is normally totally obviously from the post and it's precedent.

wildon · « **Reply #6 on:** April 05, 2011, 10:18 PM »

It'll defo get misused on here .. could be funny though

In2 bmx · « **Reply #7 on:** April 05, 2011, 10:21 PM »

Quote from: griff on April 05, 2011, 10:09 PM

I'd probably get that just for having an elina

- 400 easy for a snake post .

AKGOFF · « **Reply #8 on:** April 05, 2011, 10:22 PM »

Quote from: griff on April 05, 2011, 10:09 PM

I'd probably get that just for having an elina

Clean · « **Reply #9 on:** April 05, 2011, 10:23 PM »

Quote from: In2bmx on April 05, 2011, 10:21 PM

Quote from: griff on April 05, 2011, 10:09 PM
I'd probably get that just for having an elina
- 400 easy for a snake post .

But, Griff, mate................. we could plus 6000 each other for being in the know!

Seriously, you can only add 1 Rep at a time, so the -400 would take for ever.

griff · « **Reply #10 on:** April 05, 2011, 10:27 PM »

for ever, or at least a week

bring it on!

aerostylie · « **Reply #11 on:** April 05, 2011, 10:46 PM »

i'm sure karma ratings used to be on rad a few years ago and stopped around 2006, mis-use?

think there was a post about it at the time and was replaced by stars, could be wrong, need to find original thread.

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #12 on:** April 06, 2011, 07:24 AM »

Quote from: Clean on April 05, 2011, 10:23 PM

Quote from: In2bmx on April 05, 2011, 10:21 PM
Quote from: griff on April 05, 2011, 10:09 PM
I'd probably get that just for having an elina
- 400 easy for a snake post .

But, Griff, mate................. we could plus 6000 each other for being in the know!

Seriously, you can only add 1 Rep at a time, so the -400 would take for ever.

-400 was only taking minutes to reach last time

dordymush · « **Reply #13 on:** May 04, 2011, 04:06 PM »

yeah we had it a good bit back.
i think most of us were in a race to see who could get the worst score lol.

Spen69 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 04, 2011, 04:25 PM »

Will you lot do some bloody work instead of tossing about on here please

Richard, we love you dearly but for Griff's sake, this is a bad idea bud with that Elina, and you'd be second

Jaymz · « **Reply #15 on:** May 04, 2011, 04:41 PM »

Im a mod on a large board of dubious content and we added the karma function, was the worst thing we ever did, within hours the admin were at minus stupid amounts, people were bitching everywhere about it.

We then had it recoded so you can only give good karma, and that was the best thing we ever did, now users can see exactly how good / reliable each member is by their karma rating,

NORTY40 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 04, 2011, 05:54 PM »

Don't want to be a killjoy mate but I would rather have the SEARCH feature back working than adding anything else to the site

You only realise how much you miss something when it's taken away or doesn't work

griff · « **Reply #17 on:** May 04, 2011, 11:09 PM »

Quote from: Jaymz on May 04, 2011, 04:41 PM

Im a mod on a large board of dubious content

which forum? we should have a board raid

Dark Diggler · « **Reply #18 on:** May 06, 2011, 11:38 AM »

i just searched for karma and it brought me here

NORTY40 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 06, 2011, 11:47 AM »

Quote from: haro-os-boy on May 06, 2011, 11:37 AM

Quote from: NORTY40 on May 04, 2011, 05:54 PM
Don't want to be a killjoy mate but I would rather have the SEARCH feature back working than adding anything else to the site

You only realise how much you miss something when it's taken away or doesn't work

Search is now working again

Bru

Top job Bru

Thanks

TrickyDicky · « **Reply #20 on:** May 06, 2011, 07:30 PM »

On the karma feature, it is available, just switched off. As mentioned above it was treated as a bit of a joke before, doesn't get my vote for a reprieve ....

Author Topic: Forum Karma Feature (Read 2125 times)

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