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Post by kent on Aug 4, 2012 13:56:57 GMT -6
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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Post by Chainsaw on Aug 4, 2012 14:01:17 GMT -6
Oh, I agree. I should have karma of at least 44+.
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Post by Mr. Darke on Aug 4, 2012 14:49:55 GMT -6
Kent, have a point on me. Chainsaw, it seems that it will not let me give you any since I gave Kent some...
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Post by crusssdaddy on Aug 4, 2012 15:48:05 GMT -6
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?
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Post by kent on Aug 4, 2012 15:49:31 GMT -6
Kent, have a point on me. Chainsaw, it seems that it will not let me give you any since I gave Kent some... That's the ticket. You can tell when you encounter a high quality entertainer, I see. I do children's birthday parties for a tenner. We used to have a karma downvote button available for such work as yours, where did it go? You are a heartless purveyor of bad vibes.  |
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Post by Chainsaw on Aug 4, 2012 18:33:23 GMT -6
Kent, have a point on me. Chainsaw, it seems that it will not let me give you any since I gave Kent some... $#!@#$!@###!!!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2012 18:43:54 GMT -6
You're all lucky I can't DEDUCT karma.
Now git offa my castle green.
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Post by rleduc on Aug 4, 2012 19:34:47 GMT -6
I am unfamiliar with this so-called karma. This karma matters because why?
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Post by Chainsaw on Aug 4, 2012 19:49:23 GMT -6
I am unfamiliar with this so-called karma. This karma matters because why? On the internet, it's important to have strangers approve of you. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2012 19:56:35 GMT -6
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. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2012 20:00:59 GMT -6
Kent, have a point on me. Chainsaw, it seems that it will not let me give you any since I gave Kent some... You may only grant karma once per hour. |
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Post by jasmith on Aug 4, 2012 23:14:21 GMT -6
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.  |
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Post by jasmith on Aug 4, 2012 23:19:18 GMT -6
Kent, have a point on me. Chainsaw, it seems that it will not let me give you any since I gave Kent some... Got your back, Jack!  |
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Post by kent on Aug 4, 2012 23:55:23 GMT -6
I think I'll make this an annual appeal (for justice).
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Post by waysoftheearth on Aug 5, 2012 2:21:05 GMT -6
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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Post by kent on Aug 5, 2012 2:37:35 GMT -6
waysoftheearth, I find it hard to believe that anyone, and I mean anyone, could take the OP seriously.
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Post by 18 Spears on Aug 5, 2012 4:49:20 GMT -6
waysoftheearth, I find it hard to believe that anyone, and I mean anyone, could take the OP seriously. I love the way you did that--beg like an attention wh0re for exalts and then act all offended and such when someone points out to you how dumb it is. Oh--I was just kidding you'ns! LOL! |
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Post by machfront on Aug 5, 2012 5:16:45 GMT -6
I'm just here to give Chainsaw an exalt.
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 5, 2012 5:21:12 GMT -6
I hate threads like this. Hard to say if a person is trying to be funny or not when it starts, but at the end people just end up getting mad at each other. 1. When I set up this board there was an option of EXALT and SMITE. Eventually it got misused and someone showed me how to make SMITE go away. (There are still folks on the boards who know how to work around this somehow, but not many and they don't seem to be abusing it.) 2. Folks told me I was daft to leave karma on the boards at all, that it would just lead to petty threads like this one. I happen to like karma because it allows me to reward folks who come up with particularly cool ideas. When I post on other boards I'm constantly wishing I could EXALT them, but cannot. 3. Nobody can give themselves karma. You can't EXALT yourself. (Slightly untrue; as board admin I think I can go into an indivudual's account and adjust the number the same way I can tinker with your signature or avatar. No one else can do this, so don't blame them for having a high karma number.) 4. Kent you want karma? You got it. This whole thread makes me mad and hopefully we won't return to the topic. Kent gets a bunch of karma for whining. Let's drop the subject, okay? Maybe I'll have to disable my karma toy anyway thanks to threads like this. Or ban people. Grrrr.  |
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Post by kent on Aug 5, 2012 9:03:23 GMT -6
Im baffled.
It would have been nice if a few people had said it was obvious I was kidding.
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Post by kent on Aug 5, 2012 9:13:12 GMT -6
Kent you want karma? You got it. This whole thread makes me mad and hopefully we won't return to the topic. Kent gets a bunch of karma for whining. Let's drop the subject, okay? Maybe I'll have to disable my karma toy anyway thanks to threads like this. Or ban people. Grrrr.  Your reaction is daft. |
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Post by jcstephens on Aug 5, 2012 9:48:18 GMT -6
If you make a joke and no one laughs, the joke wasn't funny. The proper course of action is to apologize and then remain silent until you can come up with a better one.
I'm just saying, is all.
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Post by bat on Aug 5, 2012 9:54:55 GMT -6
I would deduct about 10k from that for showing some doofus' gaming video to his players and saying that all Americans game like that.
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Post by kent on Aug 5, 2012 11:22:21 GMT -6
Thanks derv but that's a kind of 'defending' I could do without since you make it sound like I was hankering after 'karma' after all. Im indifferent to it. I don't think it is silly either, I don't care about it.
Let's allow this to slide now. Move it or lock it.
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Post by Mr. Darke on Aug 5, 2012 13:04:10 GMT -6
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Post by kent on Aug 5, 2012 13:24:22 GMT -6
That at least was unambiguously funny. |
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Post by crusssdaddy on Aug 5, 2012 14:43:00 GMT -6
Kent, you have an unrivaled ability to raise hackles! I thought it was obvious OP was out for a larf. Everyone please recalibrate your joke detectors. Talk of banning? Sheeesh...
With that said, if Kent gets 12K+ karma, then I think I'm at least entitled to 13,000. Someone who knows how to work that invisible smite button, speak up and share the trick so we can knock Kent back down to size.
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Post by kent on Aug 5, 2012 15:03:45 GMT -6
Ta.
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 5, 2012 15:14:29 GMT -6
Kent you want karma? You got it. This whole thread makes me mad and hopefully we won't return to the topic. Kent gets a bunch of karma for whining. Let's drop the subject, okay? Maybe I'll have to disable my karma toy anyway thanks to threads like this. Or ban people. Grrrr. Your reaction is daft. You say that, but I got a number of e-mails and PMs from folks who were upset by the thread. They apparently didn't think the thread was so hillarious. Folks who have been around a while probably know that the whole Karma thing is one of my buttons not to push. I'll reset your Karma to where it was this AM. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2012 9:34:37 GMT -6
I hate threads like this. Hard to say if a person is trying to be funny or not when it starts, but at the end people just end up getting mad at each other. 1. When I set up this board there was an option of EXALT and SMITE. Eventually it got misused and someone showed me how to make SMITE go away. (There are still folks on the boards who know how to work around this somehow, but not many and they don't seem to be abusing it.) 2. Folks told me I was daft to leave karma on the boards at all, that it would just lead to petty threads like this one. I happen to like karma because it allows me to reward folks who come up with particularly cool ideas. When I post on other boards I'm constantly wishing I could EXALT them, but cannot. 3. Nobody can give themselves karma. You can't EXALT yourself. (Slightly untrue; as board admin I think I can go into an indivudual's account and adjust the number the same way I can tinker with your signature or avatar. No one else can do this, so don't blame them for having a high karma number.) 4. Kent you want karma? You got it. This whole thread makes me mad and hopefully we won't return to the topic. Kent gets a bunch of karma for whining. Let's drop the subject, okay? Maybe I'll have to disable my karma toy anyway thanks to threads like this. Or ban people. Grrrr. Please don't make the Exalt button go away! I like dishing them out to the deserving. I can't get on here very often, and sometimes I wish I could dish out 10 or 15 Exalts in the hour or so that I have on here. There is so much good stuff posted and I don't have a lot of time to post with working overtime and other responsibilities right now and an Exalt is a quick way of saying "Thank you!". |
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