Forum Post Voting / Karma

A new post voting/karma system has been implemented onto the forums today.

Any post can be voted up or down, and unlike our old system, has a potential effect on it. Posts which fall below 5 negative votes are automatically greyed-out.

Your profile settings also contain options on how to treat -5 and below posts.

The old karma system has been hidden and in it’s place is “Respect” (name subject to change), which indicates how many upvotes/downvotes you’ve received. To prevent abuse, a post count of 5+ is required in order to upvote/downvote posts. Obviously you can’t vote your own posts.

Please exercise common sense. The idea is to upvote quality posts and downvote anything malicious/off-topic.

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In addition to a whole heap of bug fixes and updates, IRC is now in the bottom bar and iConomy rankings have been fixed.

well thats a neat change, thanks _andy, also, not sure if you noticed, but the notification bar is back as well =3

Yep. I’ve been doing some bug fixes and updates. Check the changelog in the website board for details

Just curious, how do we get that 5 respect to hand out respect points?

You need 5 forum posts, not 5 forum points :stuck_out_tongue:

ie. a new account needs to post 5 times before they can vote, to prevent abuse

edit: hold on, this might be a permission thing. Should be fine now

gotcha. yeah i was going to say… i got like 1300 something

you have 1600 shad

.> that many? damn

btw, _andy, its up
the arrows for posting respect are visable now

Psttt… Check out the IRC!

Did you think about keeping a post on a tread if it has over +5?

We might as well just say were reddit. “karma” lol

A cap on how high one post can count toward Karma would be a good idea. It is fine to display how much it actually got, but a limit to the Karma counter would be good.

This also prevents a really negative comment from ruining karma for someone.

That’s a great idea Kyle

EDIT: This is the forum’s 33333[sup]rd[/sup] post!