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Hi, I'm fairly new here and have been trying to figure out what "Karma Power" is. I've done searches and looked at the FAQ pages and I *think* I understand what it is, but I still haven't found any info on how to give the points to excellent posts/posters. Can someone please explain? Thanx.
 
To give either positive or negative Karma points to a certain post you will need to click the little "scale" icon in the bottom left hand side of a particular post. Then a window will pop up where you can choose either to deem the post good or bad and leave a comment as well. The scale icon looks like this:
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The way you give karma points to posts/posters is to click on that icon down in the lower left corner of every post that looks like a wad of kleenex. It is between the circle icon and the red triangle icon. When you click on the wad of kleenex, a little window pops up where you can choose whether you think it was an expecially good post or an especially bad post (the bad option will give Negative karma points to the poster), then a place for you to give poster a comment about their post.
 
Thanks guys! And thanks Matt for pointing out that that indecipherable little icon is supposed to be a scale! I would never have guessed -- I wonder how many other people think it's a "wad of kleenex," too!
 
I know the Karma Points can say whether the poster is generally good, or bad, but there was something else I have a question about...
There is a number, but also a varying amount of green or red blocks. Which do each symbolize? I personally have a lesser number than some people, but I also have multiple green blocks whereas some people only have 1???
 
I am not sure of whether the green blocks have anything to do with karma anymore. They were used when we had reputation points. The higher your actually reputation score was, the more green blocks you accumulated. I do not know if they still have any baring in the new karma system. You get 1 point(or did with rep points anyway) for every month you have been a member. So someone who has been here for 1 year may well have more karma points than you but a smaller karma score. I do not think that the seniority points add to your green blocks or score. Hopefully you can understand my ramblings. :dgrin:
 
On the note of karma points.....would anyone happen to know why my karma score does not show up? It shows my points for length of time as a member and number of posts, but it does not factor in my karma points. I am supposedly #2 on the list(how the hell did that happen? :rofl: ) and yet I only have a karma score of 10. Do I need 100 posts after the institution of the karma system for my points to become relevant?
 
Matt Haines said:
On the note of karma points.....would anyone happen to know why my karma score does not show up? It shows my points for length of time as a member and number of posts, but it does not factor in my karma points. I am supposedly #2 on the list(how the hell did that happen? :rofl: ) and yet I only have a karma score of 10. Do I need 100 posts after the institution of the karma system for my points to become relevant?
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Yeah but you have 5 green blocks. Aren't those multipliers? LOL
 
I haven't been able to figure the whole thing out since it changed.....LOL. I still give em out, but I don't know exactly where they go anymore. I just know red is bad. ;)
 
Me either. But it's far from the front of my mind too. LOL
I was pretty curious when all the number were jumping around and changing up and down, back up, then settling on down again, but that seems to have settled down. :)

Ciao,
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LOL, I just found this post, and was like "what in the world are ya'll talkin about?" LOL No idea how Karma Point work, but what I wanna know is Who's been Karmanizing us? LOL :rofl:
 
Yeah the Karma to me means nothing. I have seen bad guys have a karma 41 and they haven't even been to the site in months if not years. So at this point I think Karma is pretty irrelevant.
 
The number you see in the Karma Power line will be the number of points you give someone when you give them "karma". That is your "karma power". The green boxes are a relative indication of how many karma points YOU have that other people have given you.

I am attaching a screen shot of the admin options I have set for karma. These may be changed in the future if I see that these setting are still not helping to keep the abuse that ran rampant in the old system (previously known as the "reputation system").
 

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How can people who have not posted for a very long time been able to accrue decent Karma. Some of these gems I have noticed are Ray Torres and Bob Sloan? If they have a fair amount of positive karma points I don't see karma as being valid. If the karma hasn't been fully put into effect yet than I apologize. I just wouldn't be albe to trust a system where a known bad guy who hasn't posted in a long time has higher karma than many known good guys that post on a regular basis.
Mark Westberg
 
Otter_23 said:
How can people who have not posted for a very long time been able to accrue decent Karma. Some of these gems I have noticed are Ray Torres and Bob Sloan? If they have a fair amount of positive karma points I don't see karma as being valid. If the karma hasn't been fully put into effect yet than I apologize. I just wouldn't be albe to trust a system where a known bad guy who hasn't posted in a long time has higher karma than many known good guys that post on a regular basis.
Mark Westberg
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So are you recommending that I NOT consider length of time as a member of this site as a relevant criteria? Certainly some would consider length of time on the playing field as suitable criteria, I would think. So tell me, exactly which of the options shown above in my graphic SHOULD be considered relevant and which ones not?

BTW, perhaps we are not talking on the same wavelength. The admin options only control how much karma POWER (the ability has to give or take away karma points from another) a member gets based on those criteria, and really has nothing at all to do with their actual karma point rating (which ONLY comes from other people giving or taking away points). Only other members, with one exception, can do that through their voting. The exception to this is that anyone getting fined and suspended automatically gets karma points subtracted from their total.
 
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