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Appeal for overdue Karma: Where is my Karma? « Thread Started on Aug 4, 2012, 2:56pm »
The Karma machine is broken. I have given out lots of Karma and for what? I am stuck on 10 Karma so as a forum we need to address this with some urgency.
Lets take a look at the facts: crusssdaddy has 18 Karma - that should be about 1 or 2 Karma IMHO Falconer has 37 Karma - if I had 22 Karma Falconer should have at most 20 or 21, that seems right to me. The mods here give themselves Karma for laffs when it is overdue for hardworking entertainer type lads.
Lets set the universe to rights. Give me Karma. Give me the finest Karma known to man. Give it to me now.
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Re: Appeal for overdue Karma: Where is my Karma? « Reply #3 on Aug 4, 2012, 4:48pm »
Oh, you're the hardworking type? Most of your posts are T. Sawyer-ian schemes designed to avoid even the least sweat, e.g. "I don't know what a intarnet is or Googul, can you find me landscape pixctures for me, thanx??!?" or silly contrivances like taking perfectly good maps and chopping them up into little pieces.
We used to have a karma downvote button available for such work as yours, where did it go?
Michael Mornard -------------------------- Played in the original Blackmoor, Greyhawk, and EPT Campaigns "Gronan of Simmerya" aka "Old Geezer" aka "LORD Grumpy"
I am unfamiliar with this so-called karma. This karma matters because why?
When someone presses the Exalt button in response to your post, it adds one point to your Karma. Karma is listed right above the Exalt button in the poster information to the side of a post.
There used to be a Smite button that deducted karma, but Marv disabled it in order to help keep this place a fun, positive forum. I agree with his decision (though every once in a great while ... )
As to why it matters? Well, it really doesn't do anything. I use it to express appreciation for useful information or a good laugh. I suppose it might be an informal gauge as to how well one functions within the community.
As to why it matters enough to actually ask for that recognition? I will leave that to the persons who did so to answer. I'm out to sea on that one.
The Karma machine is broken. I have given out lots of Karma and for what? I am stuck on 10 Karma so as a forum we need to address this with some urgency.
Lets take a look at the facts: crusssdaddy has 18 Karma - that should be about 1 or 2 Karma IMHO Falconer has 37 Karma - if I had 22 Karma Falconer should have at most 20 or 21, that seems right to me. The mods here give themselves Karma for laffs when it is overdue for hardworking entertainer type lads.
Lets set the universe to rights. Give me Karma. Give me the finest Karma known to man. Give it to me now.
The Universe can be rather cheeky, at times. I don't know that I would make such a fuss of insisting on "Karma," if I were you Kent.
The Karma machine is broken. I have given out lots of Karma and for what? I am stuck on 10 Karma so as a forum we need to address this with some urgency.
The karma system is fine. It's the expectation of receiving it that needs addressing.
Lets take a look at the facts: crusssdaddy has 18 Karma - that should be about 1 or 2 Karma IMHO Falconer has 37 Karma - if I had 22 Karma Falconer should have at most 20 or 21, that seems right to me.
Perhaps it's this kind of thinking that is the problem?
You have been a member for one year and made 250 posts Kent. Falconer has been here since 2007 and made 1,100 posts. Who do you suppose has more karma?
The mods here give themselves Karma for laffs when it is overdue for hardworking entertainer type lads.
This is categorically untrue. Not to mention insulting.
"Mods" cannot give themselves karma, and nor have I observed them dishing out "cheap karma" to one another.
Moderator have no "special powers" outside their own sub-board. They are just regular members who contribute to the forum by running a sub-board to make this forum richer for everyone.
Moreover, there are only three Moderators on this board:
1) Calithena, who mods the Fight On area, produces the Fight On zine, and probably deserves two karma for every pip he has been given. 2) Ronin84, who was running a S&W PBP game here a while ago, but has made only 1 post in the last year, and 0 karma anyway, 3) Me. I've posted dozens of articles for discussion since 2008, and contributed to scores of other folks' discussions too. The PBP games I'm "moderating" on these boards have clocked over 10,000 posts, and I've made hundreds of posts in other folks PBP games here as well. Do I deserve my karma count? Personally I can't tell you, but the membership here apparently thinks so since they've awarded it.
Lets set the universe to rights. Give me Karma. Give me the finest Karma known to man. Give it to me now.
I'll be the first to exalt you when you post something constructive or insightful or just plain fun that adds to my experience of these boards Kent.
Obviously I haven't read everything that you've posted, but often times when I do read your posts you come across with a pretty small opinion of others -- e.g., look at your OP in this very thread as an example. This may or may not be your intent Kent, but as a reader I can only read what is posted.
I guess what I'm trying to say is you can't go around slapping people in the face and then expect them to exalt you. It just doesn't work that way.
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