Karma - Yay or Ney?

[USRufnex]

If your willing to use the feature you should be able to know who gave it to you.....Is the way it should work.....

Mark this date... first time I've agreed with BB on any subject except music...

I vote Yay on the idea; Ney on its execution...

Karma is a rather liberal term for a forum about Tulsa... I prefer blessings and curses myself, but would settle for good rep/bad rep...

The way this is set up, there are no checks and balances, and the format can be easily manipulated...

I blame my bad karma on the Dallas Soccer Mafia and a not-so-vast right wing conspiracy...   

[swake]

How on earth did your Karma get to negative 54?

[Conan71]

Mark this date... first time I've agreed with BB on any subject except music...

I vote Yay on the idea; Ney on its execution...

Karma is a rather liberal term for a forum about Tulsa... I prefer blessings and curses myself, but would settle for good rep/bad rep...

The way this is set up, there are no checks and balances, and the format can be easily manipulated...

I blame my bad karma on the Dallas Soccer Mafia and a not-so-vast right wing conspiracy...   

Good rep, bad rep?  So we could have forum prudes and forum sluts?

[TheArtist]

Alright now lol. Just noticed my "Karma" and saw that it has dropped from,,, I think it was mid 40s to lower 50s, sometime in the last week or so, to negative! And I have hardly even been posting lol.

So from now on. Every single time I get on here. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveryone is getting bad Karma lol. Mark my words I get on here a lot. If I am going down, ya ALL goin down with me lol.     

So go ahead, bring on the bad Karma. See where it gets ya.  

Bring it on, bring it on.

[USRufnex]

Good rep, bad rep?  So we could have forum prudes and forum sluts?

Bring it on... bring it on....

[Chicken Little]

I've been watching the rate at which some of these drop.  In some cases, it appears to be a single, very dedicated person.  That's not exactly hard to deal with, if a few of y'all would make a half-*ssed effort to read and rate the work of your neighbors, the person doing this will give up and everybody'd be fine.

[USRufnex]

Some of us don't have the time... Why must I rate yay or ney to posts in a simple forum?

"Just say No" to Karma spam.

[Conan71]

Bring it on... bring it on....

That looks like the entry that bankrupted me in the Kentucky Derby a few years back.

[Breadburner]

She has a cute face...

[Conan71]

She has a cute face...

The guy looks like Spielberg on crank.

[Hoss]

The guy looks like Spielberg on crank.

Or a 'happier' Charlie Manson.

[Hometown]

I see people wanting to come up with a "why" regarding their karma scores but I doubt that even the Administrators could come up with an accurate answer.  They might be able to say when and by whom karma was awarded but that still leaves complex diagnostic tests to come up with an accurate reason "why." 

The karma function really lends itself to abuse and any reasoning about it is projection and futile.  I find myself logging on to award karma to my favorite poster instead of focusing on issues and the content of threads. 

I have a sack full of pictures I've pulled from my old scrap book and I had planned to start some threads using those pictures but karma has completely distracted me and come very close to breaking the spell TulsaNow originally cast on me.  Karma is slowly but surely ruining TulsaNow for me.

And I do see this as an editorial decision on the part of the organizers and I don't believe it should be subject to a vote any more than say, voting on whether or not gay people should be allowed to participate in TulsaNow.

Karma is just plain wrong and TulsaNow should do the right thing and eliminate it as soon as possible.

[Admin]

While I like the idea of a better Karma system, the one that comes with this forum package has 3 modes (including off) and very little else. If you're reading this you may notice some totals looking different, that is just me exploring some options.

[Admin]

I see people wanting to come up with a "why" regarding their karma scores but I doubt that even the Administrators could come up with an accurate answer.  They might be able to say when and by whom karma was awarded but that still leaves complex diagnostic tests to come up with an accurate reason "why." 

We don't even know "Who" much less "Why"

And I do see this as an editorial decision on the part of the organizers and I don't believe it should be subject to a vote any more than say, voting on whether or not gay people should be allowed to participate in TulsaNow.

Karma is just plain wrong and TulsaNow should do the right thing and eliminate it as soon as possible.

The vote was because we had had some complaints and wanted to see what opinion really was since people who are unhappy are more likely to provide feedback. The 50/50 results was pretty surprising. The vote was not intended to be an official decision making method.

I am trying to figure out a way to modify the Karma system to make it worthwhile. Barring some great epiphany, it will likely be discontinued shortly.

[carltonplace]

I like the 50/50...it shows the shenanigans