I don’t know why everyone has such bad feelings about Karma. I thought it actually kept me from being an ass in many cases. I didn’t want to get negative karma for criticizing someone. Now I just let the negativity fly.
Though I do remember getting some bad karma and being quite pissed about it…hmmm.
That was what it was supposed to do. Unfortunately it got abused. People started giving out karma (both positive and negative) for petty stupid crap. We tried, it didn’t work out.
WHAT! ARE YOU CALLING ME CRAZY! Negative karma for you!!!
I got here the week that it was eliminated, so i dont have any thing to really contribute to this thread. But imo what does post count or karma really matter. I know who is who just by username. Some people are productive, some are not. IT seems the ones that are not are being weeded out, and soon it wont matter what your karma is.
what purpose? i seriously dont see what good purpose it could be. Even though its just now automotive foums related someone can have a ton of posts that have no value while someone else has only like 100 posts and are the most informative and helpful posts on the site.
I don’t care… this place got pretty political… mods aim to please, but there are too many people on here who take this place way too seriously.
Don’t quote that part just yet… by “way too seriously” I don’t mean people like Howie who actually have a financial interest here… or JoesTypeS who is only here cause UBRF is just Toda and Choda humping eachother with the occasional member from here and cross posting a thread, or me not doing anything constructive for it. I mean the other people who said well my negative karma is coming from one person and one person only… so thats unfair that I have a red box, and someone else has 8 red boxes… cause I know I’m way cooler.
Karma was fun cause you could call someone a panzy, leave some initials, and it would be better than a PM. Then you had more whiney bitches who would just leave negative karma just because, and then pretend to be someone else and play it off like it wasn’t them. As long as the user leaving the karma is known on all Karma I don’t see how it could get out of hand.
I don’t care, cause I don’t miss it that much… but it was fun for those who enjoyed it and knew it was nothing important to the site.
i liked karma, but because it was a good way to tell me if i was posting worthy material and not being a noob idiot. i think karma could be a good thing if it wasnt aloud to be anonymous and that if it was given for a pointless reason its revoked. if someone abuses it they could have that option removed from thier account. It was nice to get positive karma if i posted something that helped someone, it was a good gratification system for me. I think the idea could be explored and maybe a good system of it could be devised, maybe make a new moderator that only moderates the karma so its not something extra for you overall mods that have enough on your plate already.