Glad to see that things are moving along on this.
Not, to dig up old bones, but, the reason I'm so interested in this plugin is that I remember several different threads here at the forums talking about the "number" of posts vs "quality", about a person's "status" as being "veteran" and what not ....
What is the purpose of "Karma" if it ends up being just like the "number of posts" a person has? OR like a polling system?
I can see why Wil keeps mentioning perlmonks and their "XP" (Experience Points) system.
Here's a bit taken from another foum regarding vB's karma system ... I'm not sure if it's admin settable or not (I bet it is though) ....
Quote:
Points allocated to registered members:
New thread: 3 points
Reply: 1 point
Points allocated to thread's owner if their thread's replies exceed a given number:
5 replies: 1 point
10: 2 points
15: 3 points
20: 4 points
25: 5 points
Points allocated to thread's owner if their thread's views exceed a given number::
20 views: 1 point
30: 2 points
40: 3 points
50: 4 points
100: 8 points
Additional points given to member by admin/moderators:
1 point each
Points allocated to thread's owner if users agreed/disagreed with their thread:
+1/-1 point
Obviously, a big worry is if "a few" members continuously disregard with "a few" and continually give bad karma to someone. So, hopefully, there will be some kind of flood control to prevent problems.
Another thing, what do you get to do with your "karma" ???
The Marvel game I used to play allowed you to "add karma" to your attack against an oppenent! So, basically, you could rig the dice roll to gain an automatic critical hit or to automatically gain an automatic block.
So, I guess the karma at /. is only a popularity vote .... hmmm ... well I guess at a fundamental level isn't bad but I also want something more than just popularity, since I can gain popularity or dictatorship by convincing the admin to make me a moderator.
Which makes the XP system a little more attractive, since you gain XP/Karma which is connected to number of posts which in turn reflects your status level at the forum.
ie ... I wouldn't techinically be a "veteran" here yet!!! Since I've only met the "number of posts" requirement and not the "experience level".
whooo ... this is definitely, out of AD&D. hehehe. (perlmonks must have a few old timers like me with similar gaming experience).
So, I guess I'm saying that the karma and user ranks should be tied together (much more intergrated and advanced compared to the fundamental level I mentioned above).
So what do you do with your karma? Gloat over it? View it and say, "dam, I'm the posting king here!"?
How about letting users use their accumalated karma in this lifetime? Not in the ether world?
- you can use it to apologize. ie ... "you bad mouth somebody and wish to show that you are sorry" ...pay XX karma points
- you want to reach the next use rank but don't have enough posts (buy it with karma!)
- you use karma when you edit a post
- you use karma when you "delete" a post
- you loose karma when you "write sh_t, f_uck, b_stard, _sshole, ect..."
- you gain karma when you compliment somebody
- you loose karma when you "brown nose"
- ect ...
hmmm ... if tied in with user ranks ....
with enough bad karma you can loose a rank or 2. Just like a resurrection in AD&D.
ok ... this is gettiing really long.
Not meaning to bad mouth or cut down what has been done so far, just some ideas that I wanted to voice about this plugin hoping that I've said "1" thing that helps. hehe shotgun with birdshot effect
cheers!
openoffice + gimp + sketch ...