Add Karma to CKA
Scape @ Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:50 am
$1:
What is Karma?
Karma is an internal value Slashdot uses to determine things like initial posting score, and moderation eligibility. To you, karma is a label like "Good" or "Bad". Many things on Slashdot affect karma, including moderation done to your comments, accepted story submissions, and meta moderating.
Karma is an internal value Slashdot uses to determine things like initial posting score, and moderation eligibility. To you, karma is a label like "Good" or "Bad". Many things on Slashdot affect karma, including moderation done to your comments, accepted story submissions, and meta moderating.
Slashdot has a very interesting idea for their 'forums' could the same be tried here? The poll is just to see which way the wind is blowing and not a mandate.
The Hoser @ Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:20 am
Seems cool. I don't really understand it, but seems cool.
Canadaka @ Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:12 am
heeh suuuure we can have that, you wanna write it??? hehe, thats a partty complex system that they probably have a bunch of programmers working on over there. Here its just me, with no time.
It is a neat system, who knows someone might make a port to the phpbb forums sometime.
The new phpnuke does have something a little like karma. but its more like a colour alert scale. usera can be flagged as a risk, or next level there posts have to be checked by moderator first, ect ect. I have not tested it yet though.
ROCKaMIC @ Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:39 am
Canadaka Canadaka:
heeh suuuure we can have that, you wanna write it??? hehe, thats a partty complex system that they probably have a bunch of programmers working on over there. Here its just me, with no time.
It is a neat system, who knows someone might make a port to the phpbb forums sometime.
It is a neat system, who knows someone might make a port to the phpbb forums sometime.
Yeah, that would sure take a lot of time to write.
Why don't we propose that to phpBB? although i'm not 100% if i'd like that and there's also the thing that it would add a lot more work for moderators and it would certainly consume more bandwith (as i'm thinking moderators will have to vote or something extra on every poll) i don't know how it works on the mod side so my bandwith comment may or may not be true
BartSimpson @ Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:16 am
Scape Scape:
What is it?
Slashdot has a very interesting idea for their 'forums' could the same be tried here? The poll is just to see which way the wind is blowing and not a mandate.
$1:
What is Karma?
Karma is an internal value Slashdot uses to determine things like initial posting score, and moderation eligibility. To you, karma is a label like "Good" or "Bad". Many things on Slashdot affect karma, including moderation done to your comments, accepted story submissions, and meta moderating.
Karma is an internal value Slashdot uses to determine things like initial posting score, and moderation eligibility. To you, karma is a label like "Good" or "Bad". Many things on Slashdot affect karma, including moderation done to your comments, accepted story submissions, and meta moderating.
Slashdot has a very interesting idea for their 'forums' could the same be tried here? The poll is just to see which way the wind is blowing and not a mandate.
Sounds like a good idea. People would behave better, I believe, if their behaviour were readily known to even newbies. It might have the effect of making the moderators jobs a tad easier as folks would naturally want to have a good score so their posts would be considered credible. Someone who gets edited and modded all the time would come off as a flake.
Scape @ Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:03 am
Exactly, it would self police. For example: someone submits a news link gets good karma, some one who spams news links loses all the good karma earned and gets bad karma instead. Same with posts, you post on topic good karma, you get warned your off topic your karma get nurfed sorta thing. Raise your Karma enough you start to earn mod power. In effect you can 'vote' on posts as to their value. So in other words it's a system designed to reward participation and gives points for what happens naturally and assigns a value to it and can be modified at any time by a moderator. Moderators can also be held to task via the same principal and abusers of power can quickly be brought down by other mods. Sorta like a medal system but the medals have bite.
$1:
How can I improve my Karma?
What follows was originally a story submission by dkh2. It seemed to me that it would better serve readers here: 10 tips for improving your Karma:
Post intelligently:
Interesting, insightful, thought provoking comments are rated higher on a fairly consistent basis.
Post calmly:
Nobody likes a flame war. In fact, more times than not the flamer gets burned much more than their target. "Flaim Bait" is hit quickly and consistently with "-1" by moderators. As the bumper sticker says... "Don't be a dick."
Post early:
If an article has over a certain number of posts on it already yours is less likely to be moderated. This is, less likely both statistically (there are more to choose from) and due to positioning (as a moderator I have to actually find your post waaay at the end of a long list.)
Post often:
If you only post once a month you can expect your karma to remain low. Also, lively discussion in an open forum is what makes Slashdot really "Rock the Casbah."
Stay on topic:
Off topic posts are slapped quickly and consistently with "-1" by moderators.
Be original:
Avoid being redundant and just repeating what has already been said. (Did I really just say that?) Yes, being moderated as "redundant" is worth "-1" to your post and your karma. Especially to be avoided are the "what he said" and "me too" posts.
Read it before you post:
Does it say what you really want it to say? Check your own spelling and grammar. Occasionally, a perfectly beneficial post is passed over by moderators because of this completely irrelevant to content feature. This is also a good approach to checking yourself for what you're really saying. Can't tell you the number of times I've stopped myself from saying the opposite of what I meant by checking my own s&g.
Log in as a registered user:
I know, this sounds obvious but, "Anonymous Coward" does not have a karma rating. You can't reap the perceived benefits of your own accidental brilliance if you post anonymously. Have pride in your work and take credit for it.
Read Slashdot regularly:
You can't possibly contribute to the discussion if you're not in the room. Come to the party and play.
What follows was originally a story submission by dkh2. It seemed to me that it would better serve readers here: 10 tips for improving your Karma:
Post intelligently:
Interesting, insightful, thought provoking comments are rated higher on a fairly consistent basis.
Post calmly:
Nobody likes a flame war. In fact, more times than not the flamer gets burned much more than their target. "Flaim Bait" is hit quickly and consistently with "-1" by moderators. As the bumper sticker says... "Don't be a dick."
Post early:
If an article has over a certain number of posts on it already yours is less likely to be moderated. This is, less likely both statistically (there are more to choose from) and due to positioning (as a moderator I have to actually find your post waaay at the end of a long list.)
Post often:
If you only post once a month you can expect your karma to remain low. Also, lively discussion in an open forum is what makes Slashdot really "Rock the Casbah."
Stay on topic:
Off topic posts are slapped quickly and consistently with "-1" by moderators.
Be original:
Avoid being redundant and just repeating what has already been said. (Did I really just say that?) Yes, being moderated as "redundant" is worth "-1" to your post and your karma. Especially to be avoided are the "what he said" and "me too" posts.
Read it before you post:
Does it say what you really want it to say? Check your own spelling and grammar. Occasionally, a perfectly beneficial post is passed over by moderators because of this completely irrelevant to content feature. This is also a good approach to checking yourself for what you're really saying. Can't tell you the number of times I've stopped myself from saying the opposite of what I meant by checking my own s&g.
Log in as a registered user:
I know, this sounds obvious but, "Anonymous Coward" does not have a karma rating. You can't reap the perceived benefits of your own accidental brilliance if you post anonymously. Have pride in your work and take credit for it.
Read Slashdot regularly:
You can't possibly contribute to the discussion if you're not in the room. Come to the party and play.