Karma

[MW]

I think I win the award for worst karma.

[Tony]

I really do think having karma on the forum is a pretty bad idea, for instance someone I know's karma is being repeatedly put down for no good reason and I'm having to put it back up again each time. As I see it it's just a way of picking on someone you don't like.

Although I don't know how much control Tony has over the features of the site, it would be a lot better - and I'm sure many others agree with me - if you give feedback on individual comments, rather than on the user as a whole. If Tony actually reads these, I really think it would be an idea to have the 'nice/not so nice' buttons used for voting on each comment, as previously suggested. Like they say, "judge the action not the person".

I don't think I can do that (unless someone who knows SMF better than me can advise)

[vinh1000]

I really do think having karma on the forum is a pretty bad idea, for instance someone I know's karma is being repeatedly put down for no good reason and I'm having to put it back up again each time. As I see it it's just a way of picking on someone you don't like.

Although I don't know how much control Tony has over the features of the site, it would be a lot better - and I'm sure many others agree with me - if you give feedback on individual comments, rather than on the user as a whole. If Tony actually reads these, I really think it would be an idea to have the 'nice/not so nice' buttons used for voting on each comment, as previously suggested. Like they say, "judge the action not the person".

I don't think I can do that (unless someone who knows SMF better than me can advise)

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3211
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3559

[Tony]

I really do think having karma on the forum is a pretty bad idea, for instance someone I know's karma is being repeatedly put down for no good reason and I'm having to put it back up again each time. As I see it it's just a way of picking on someone you don't like.

Although I don't know how much control Tony has over the features of the site, it would be a lot better - and I'm sure many others agree with me - if you give feedback on individual comments, rather than on the user as a whole. If Tony actually reads these, I really think it would be an idea to have the 'nice/not so nice' buttons used for voting on each comment, as previously suggested. Like they say, "judge the action not the person".

I don't think I can do that (unless someone who knows SMF better than me can advise)

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3211
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3559

Thanks, I will have a look at those later

[nitromatt1]

I must say the first of those two mods does look ideal to me as a replacement for karma

[windy miller]

On the subject of 'karma' it might be a better idea to list the karma 'status' as it were, on the Membership list..IE where they are only open to view by registered members and NOT by the casual observer/viewer/guest. If, (as at present) a casual viewer can see the overall 'rating' of each member and soon realise that 75% of the forum members are constantly being 'slated' by the other 25%, they might think twice about prospective membership.... ::) which is no help to anyone least of all Tony. Personally, I can't hope to keep everyone amused ALL of the time so I expect to get some 'downers' occasionally, but a simple 'thumb-up' or 'thumb-down' yellow Icon should be enough I would have thought.. :-\

[vinh1000]

I really do think having karma on the forum is a pretty bad idea, for instance someone I know's karma is being repeatedly put down for no good reason and I'm having to put it back up again each time. As I see it it's just a way of picking on someone you don't like.

Although I don't know how much control Tony has over the features of the site, it would be a lot better - and I'm sure many others agree with me - if you give feedback on individual comments, rather than on the user as a whole. If Tony actually reads these, I really think it would be an idea to have the 'nice/not so nice' buttons used for voting on each comment, as previously suggested. Like they say, "judge the action not the person".

I don't think I can do that (unless someone who knows SMF better than me can advise)

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3211
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3559

Thanks, I will have a look at those later

The first link should prove well for the forum :)

[nitromatt1]

Karma is pointless if its anonymous. I'd like to know who disagrees with me so I can have discussions about it. Isn't that the point of a forum?

(It also allows people who know each other to raise each others karma artificially. You know who you are).

See above.

Tony, I was going to ask you yesterday but forgot, did you chance to look at the mods suggested above? As vinh1000 said, the first of them looks ideal to me

[Tony]

Karma is pointless if its anonymous. I'd like to know who disagrees with me so I can have discussions about it. Isn't that the point of a forum?

(It also allows people who know each other to raise each others karma artificially. You know who you are).

See above.

Tony, I was going to ask you yesterday but forgot, did you chance to look at the mods suggested above? As vinh1000 said, the first of them looks ideal to me

No I haven't had chance yet, any spare time I get at the moment I'm trying to finish the new Diamond fleetlist and links

[nitromatt1]

Karma is pointless if its anonymous. I'd like to know who disagrees with me so I can have discussions about it. Isn't that the point of a forum?

(It also allows people who know each other to raise each others karma artificially. You know who you are).

See above.

Tony, I was going to ask you yesterday but forgot, did you chance to look at the mods suggested above? As vinh1000 said, the first of them looks ideal to me

No I haven't had chance yet, any spare time I get at the moment I'm trying to finish the new Diamond fleetlist and links

No problem at all. I can imagine how busy you must be at the moment.

[Discodave]

I really do think having karma on the forum is a pretty bad idea, for instance someone I know's karma is being repeatedly put down for no good reason and I'm having to put it back up again each time. As I see it it's just a way of picking on someone you don't like.

Although I don't know how much control Tony has over the features of the site, it would be a lot better - and I'm sure many others agree with me - if you give feedback on individual comments, rather than on the user as a whole. If Tony actually reads these, I really think it would be an idea to have the 'nice/not so nice' buttons used for voting on each comment, as previously suggested. Like they say, "judge the action not the person".

Yes I say nothing and down it goes.  I think I might just start doing that to every comment I do not at the moment even rate karma to anyone.

[Ash]

Yeah that happens to me u post an unusual working and ur karma just drops lol

[danny]

Mine does that, I had 18 at one point, don't post and it just drops, never good lol.

[PM]

Yeah I think it would be better to have like/dislike buttons for each comment as opposed to for the person in general if this is possible.

[Stu]

Or better still, just disable the karma feature altogether. I've administered forums using SMF before, and have never bothered with it myself.