Karma is back

But hey don't we all like increasing scores smiley-grin?

...I have to seriously think about opening a bunch of fake accounts just to increase my karma ]:smiley:

There is one to get you started! :smiley:

Whoa, thanks, that feels good :stuck_out_tongue:

(guess why yours incresed by 1 :slight_smile:

retrolefty:
Send it back to Apple for a new $300 battery and a free tune-up? :wink:

$300? Are you serious?

Thanks. One of those incantations must have cleared the problem.

What's to stop me giving AWOL 100 karma by just clicking his Karma button 100 times? If I can, surely it is a useless measure, because it can be abused. If I can't, it must store somewhere that my user name (or my IP address) gave someone Karma. So, that's extra load. And extra load to check, for every poster, whether they can increase the Karma of every other poster.

And once I give Karma to one person, how long until I can give it again? An hour? A day? A second? More computations.

I just don't think it measures anything useful. Someone here may be an expert on something obscure (eg. UDP packets) and post occasionally, when they can say something useful. But when they post they give good advice. They might have low Karma. Others may post a lot but just ramble, but have a few friends that boost their Karma, like a mutual-admiration society.

For me the post count is a useful guide. Someone with lots of posts has, at least, hung around the forum long enough to hopefully know something about the Arduino, or at least where to find things out, or where another thread might be that would help someone.

For people with few posts, you can still respectfully read what they have to say, and if they seem to know what they are talking about, follow their advice.

So I don't see what Karma adds to all of that.

You can, will supposedly take you 100 hours, with 1 hr limit between karma clicking.

Not that he doesn't deserve it (and you also) as two of the busiest moderators keeping posts in the right forums & stuff.

CrossRoads:
You can, will supposedly take you 100 hours, with 1 hr limit between karma clicking.

Not that he doesn't deserve it (and you also) as two of the busiest moderators keeping posts in the right forums & stuff.

If we do it with 10 we can do it in 10 hours :slight_smile:

PS there is no time delay when not using the same name. I just tested it with CrossRoads and Graynomad.

It must be, you read it here on the internet. :wink:

About this Karma thing. About the only thing more useless then the karma count is the long posting threads it causes after it's activated, as this one it likely to become. Someone should find the long thread created the last time it was implemented here, that time with plus and minus karma counts shown. It was quite funny following that thread but had the equivalent value of a delay(max long integer) time sink. But thankfully someone killed it before the rollover happened.

Actually that might be the best solution for the Karma counter, just make it an unsigned byte that will roll over, so even a karma count of 0 won't mean anything significant. 8)

Lefty

About the only thing more useless then the karma count is the long posting threads it causes after it's activated

causing even more load on the website

<resigned sigh ....>

Uh oh. Looks like I've done something terrible...

An Error Has Occurred!
Sorry, you can't repeat a karma action without waiting 1 hours.

I wonder if that docks my karma.

"1 hours"?

Me thinks a programmer got lazy. Tsk. Tsk.

print "Sorry, you can't repeat a karma action without waiting 1 hour"
if (config.hoursToWait > 1) { print "s"; }
print "."

It is a thankless task being an online cyber policeman Nick. Keep up the good fight I say

I haven't dug through all of the old posts on this, but it might be nice to know when we get new karma points, much like occasionally I see popups for replies in threads I've posted to (but not always). Even nicer to know what thread people were reading when they decided to give me karma points. I don't care who gave me the points, but it would be nice to know which of the current threads people feel I'm being helpful. But I can see how no matter what you do, it is open to people trying to game the system.

Game the system? I don't think you can karma yourself, only other people.

The popups do seem a little random at times.

Game the system? I don't think you can karma yourself

No but you could set up another account to do the karmaing if you actually cared that much about it.

Grumpy_Mike:

Game the system? I don't think you can karma yourself

No but you could set up another account to do the karmaing if you actually cared that much about it.

With your karma of 128 and this statement I get suspicious ]:smiley:
Have you tried? ]:smiley:

Best regards
Jantje