Karma System

[TheDarkChief]

Might as well, as long as people don't abuse them, such as, "If you give me karma, I'll give you karma."

[Rosti LFC]

Might as well, as long as people don't abuse them, such as, "If you give me karma, I'll give you karma."

People will abuse them. That's a fact.

[X_Darkness]

I have been to one forum that abused it so bad. :| All they did was smite (thats what taking away karma means) a ton of times everyday. Though, I have been to many forums were people used it well.

I say yes. If it's abused, remove it.:)

[Shadowlink19]

Doesn't sound like too bad of an idea. So, I'll say yes. :) If there's abuse going on with it, however, then go ahead and remove. I say just try it first and see what happens.

[WiinolikePS3]

Like everyone else says, try it for about 5 days, see how people react, and remove it if it's being abused. It seems fun, and as long as people are nice, it should work well.

[Tsu]

No. It'll be just like Rankism back at NSider, but worse. I've seen it happen on GameFAQs.

Rankism was a creation of idiots who couldn't make interesting threads and assumed it was because of their rank.

No, it was the higher-ranks thinking they were more intelligent than the Cappies or the Pirahna Plants.

"Your opinion doesn't matter, you're just some dumb Cappy."

[Trini]

No. It'll be just like Rankism back at NSider, but worse. I've seen it happen on GameFAQs.

Rankism was a creation of idiots who couldn't make interesting threads and assumed it was because of their rank.

No, it was the higher-ranks thinking they were more intelligent than the Cappies or the Pirahna Plants.

"Your opinion doesn't matter, you're just some dumb Cappy."

Because a lot of them tended to be dumb. It's not like that thought sprung out of literally nowhere.

[NOA_ANDY]

*votes no, making 22Y/23N* :P


Personally, I'm against a Karma system, it'd make decisions in some tourneys, (etc) a bit one sided and may encourage a bit of spam with stupid comments "LIEK I GOTZ MOAR KARMA THAN JOO"  :-\


Besides, I think that we need to focus on features that actually improve the community more.....say, a Youtube channel. :P

[Commander Awesome]

I'm not a giant fan of the Karma system.

[Termanian_Knight]

Besides, I think that we need to focus on features that actually improve the community more.....say, a Youtube channel. :P

Exactly. Karma's a rather pointless facet that only causes more problems than it benefits.

[Chain Chompesque]

I'm not voting at the moment, as the specific type of Karma hasn't been defined. If you mean GameFAQs' type, then yes because it allows for punishments of the right extent--So that there's something in between getting your post deleted and getting banned.

Sadly, I haven't seen a board where "Mature" people won't be rankist or "Immature" people won't go nuts with Smiting. Both forms of Karma sound all nice on the top, but people always abuse it...I think we should try one of the systems for a while, and if it sucks we can remove it.

[Savage Syn]

I said yes.

[Psycho_Ivan]

WAIT. Perfect idea just came up. You can turn the karma system off for yourself. Meaning, that it would still exist but no one could give you negative or positive karma, and you couldn't see other users karma nor give them any.

[Bob-ombs]

Eh, I voted no, it's kinda like the rep system on GR, I don't really see a point. And it has been abused, and probably will be here too.

though my vote doesn't matter now anyways.

[Commander Awesome]

No. It'll be just like Rankism back at NSider, but worse. I've seen it happen on GameFAQs.

Rankism was a creation of idiots who couldn't make interesting threads and assumed it was because of their rank.

No, it was the higher-ranks thinking they were more intelligent than the Cappies or the Pirahna Plants.

"Your opinion doesn't matter, you're just some dumb Cappy."

Because a lot of them tended to be dumb. It's not like that thought sprung out of literally nowhere.

Actually, most Plumbers just wanted the lulz and fun.
Thus, we supressed our intellect. And eventually got banned. Yep.