Karma burnFollow

Is there no way you can change the site to only permit rating priveledges for users who post in the relevent thread? I notice a lot of threads recently which have been rated down fairly quickly within a very small time frame. It would not be a problem except your site tends to discriminate against posters who reach default status. Perhaps forcing these vultures to put their necks on the line will prevent them from caring so much what a thread says that they disagree so much with. Unless of course you value the opinion of a coward who is too afraid to post a viewpoint relevent to the topic and arbitrarily judges others by his own unstated view. I once asked the admins to eliminate the karma issue completely, you argued that it was not possible/did not want to/ps2 limitations, so here is middle ground. Please limit/restrict members from rating threads/posts unless they put themselves at risk for the same treatment.

Edited, Dec 13th 2008 5:58pm by Soulrunner

Edited, Dec 13th 2008 7:44pm by Darqflame

What you're suggestion means, is that anyone random spammer can post junk all over the forums, and we can't rate it to sub-d without posting in it and bumping it back to the top, thus bringing further attention to it and the possibility that someone might actually check the link provided.

Of course, then there's always just random stupid people who post too, that I think pretty much everyone can agree need to be sub-d, yet there's no real reason to post in the thread either.

If only people would stop worrying about karma.

/sigh

His request is for a system that's the exact opposite of Slashdot's, actually.

On Slashdot, you can't rate posts if you've posted in the article they're associated with, leading to occasional (hell, who am I kidding, more likely frequent) "posting as AC because I already modded this thread" comments.

This. Also, try not being an idiot for once. Trust me, it may seem hard, but it helps!