Applaud? Smite? Karma?!

BrookFetish wrote: Right...until people start saying that he's well on his way to being banned because of the negative kudos he has tallied.

Nobody said that.

Note the subjunctive:

Carnivore wrote: Just keep in mind, that if we institute karma thresholds, you might have already earned a week's banning, and be well on your way to a lifetime banning.

Or is it pluperfect subjunctive- EmilyM, a little help here? :-k

Carnivore wrote: I'm not sure if it's interest in the new feature, but did anyone notice that we had an all-time high number of users at once today? 81 at 12:51 pm! :shock:

probably b/c of the dog thread? or the joyce bakeshop thread.

pensodyssey wrote: Smite, indeed. My votes should count double for my +1 long sword (+2 against magic!).

Look out for my granny cart +5 vorpal weapon!

dailyheights wrote: No one is getting banned due to Karma. Karma has nothing to do with policing or schoolyarding or whatever. It's supposed to be a fun thing. Please have fun with it and stop taking it so seriously.

Although if your karma IS really bad, you might want to ask yourself why. Or ask Buddha. Or Vishnu. Or something.

pensodyssey wrote: [quote=dailyheights]There is a built-in time limit between EACH smite or applause you make. It is 10 minutes. It can be set for any time limit, from 0 seconds to 3600 seconds (60 minutes) or probably more.

You should set it so that everyone gets one, and only one, applaud or smite. THEN we would see what people really think!

thats what i'm talking about. cause some people abuse hte hell out of it :P. i know i have lol.

WhyFi wrote:
I'm telling you! If we had a little line graph with the realtime tally, I'd alternate between useful and asshole just to see the spikes!

Right. And then we need to set up derivatives trading, so we could hedge our karma futures before making a post.

Karma free zone here... not for long I suspect. Who was it who said "your karma ran over my dogma"?

doctorj wrote: Who was it who said "your karma ran over my dogma"?

I'm not sure - it might be a piece of bumpersticker wisdom whose origin is lost to the ages. But I think that "your dogma ran over my karma" is a much more appropriate motto for this new, unsolicited feature, although that itself is a somewhat dogmatic statement for which my karma rating will likely suffer.

armchair_warrior wrote: just tested it out you can give someone + or - over and over again lol. maybe i'm not hated this much after all. probably the same guys or gals over and over again. damn.

i guess its not working :P. if everyone got 1 vote for each individual user than it be cool.

I like you armchair. I mean 90% of the time I have a hard time making sense of what you're saying, but you're A Okay with me. I'm gonna give you an applaud. Just don't let the glory get to your head.

Idlewild wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]just tested it out you can give someone + or - over and over again lol. maybe i'm not hated this much after all. probably the same guys or gals over and over again. damn.

i guess its not working :P. if everyone got 1 vote for each individual user than it be cool.

I like you armchair. I mean 90% of the time I have a hard time making sense of what you're saying, but you're A Okay with me. I'm gonna give you an applaud. Just don't let the glory get to your head.

thanks

/hugs

<3

I've seen a great deal of self-righteous indignation over this karma ranking which is essentially a pretty unimportant part of what goes on here. I post here because I like talking to folks who live in the area and getting other people's opinions about things. Don't care too much whether people like me or not, just as long as they are open to some semi-intelligent discourse, even if its about non-earth shattering topics like where to get a pedicure, or the best Cuban sandwich on this side of Flatbush. I'll admit to even being amused by Armchair once I got past the lack punctuation and the stream of consciousness thing.

So let the karma thing go on. If you don't think it is reflective of you, then ignore it. After all, its just the opinion of some miscellaneous, anonymous generic person that’s not going to change the world anyway.

sweet tea wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]admins please get rid of this system.

i just got a pm from a person with zero post.

stating that "so i see you have signed in with another name and are erasing your bad karma points - very clever"

people are probably creating alts for giving or taking away these karma points.

what a super lame thing to say. i gave you applause just cause that sucks, and i am announcing it, so that said lame-o person will know that not all of us think beat-up-on-armchair is a fun game.

hehe i just deleted that post. cause i realise. it was meant as a pm from someone with zero post. hmmmm


i guess i'll paste it back here since it got quoted :P.


admins please get rid of this system.

i just got a pm from a person with zero post.

stating that "so i see you have signed in with another name and are erasing your bad karma points - very clever"

people are probably creating alts for giving or taking away these karma points.

sweet tea wrote: may i say, however, that the quality of this conversation compared with the congruent one on the PS board make me happy to live on this side of flatbush.

it did get a little bit "heated" over there hehe. guess your paying that much for a place i'll be up in the anger meter :P too.

but they are nice folks hehe. i hangout on that board much as this .

they just dont know me :P. i like to post under one name and cant leave posting alone!!! hehe.

sweet tea wrote: may i say, however, that the quality of this conversation compared with the congruent one on the PS board make me happy to live on this side of flatbush.

True that. Anyone notice that the people most up in arms about the karma feature are those whose posting style can be described as obnoxious and boorish? :roll: