No karma for OoT posts?Follow

I'd like to preface this post with the fact that, while I may not have a huge post count like others do, I'm an old(ish) poster who's been watching this forum since 2003.

So the OoT has been warned a few times in the recent past about how it treats new posters. The Asylum was made for more "flavorful" posts, etc. etc., we all know how that story goes. I know I'm not one of the OoT or Asylum elite, but I am a long-time reader, so I figured I'd extend this suggestion here to see what the locals have to say about it.

Why not make it so ratings in off-topic forums don't apply to a poster's karma score? For those who care about karma (read as: anyone posting as scholar or lower) this would provide a large incentive to get involved with the community on a more personal level. Even if their posts get sub-d'd or unrated in the off topic forums, it wouldn't effect their overall karma score.

As far as I see it, the point of the karma score system is to point out posters who post beneficial/good/useful information on the games related within the Allakhazam forums, while those who post stupid, nonsensical posts -- in the main gaming forums -- get red arrowed and have their karma score lowered. This system would also get rid of any circle-jerking rate ups that might happen in random +1 threads in those forums.

The only posts that should affect karma, in my opinion, are those that have to do with game-related subjects. Posts in the Out of Topic and Asylum forums, along with maybe the multimedia, site feedback, and any other off-gaming-topic forums, shouldn't affect karma.

So that's my proposal. Make the karma score system only affect the scores of those posting in the main gaming forums, while posts in the Out of Topic and Asylum can still get sub-d'd/unrated without affecting the posters karma score.

Edited, Aug 15th 2009 4:31am by Darqflame

Well, that is how it should have been. Unfortunately things are not really that perfect in my opinion.

Right now if you happen to disagree with someone, regardless of how well it's written, commented or how right you are, the ones who disagree with you will rate you down. Infact, rating down happens not just for reasons related to that one post, often times it happens over another post you made some time ago.

It's basic human nature i'm afraid. Plus it comes with the age group we're currently involved with on this forum. I'm of the same opinion as the OP. Right now valid suggestions get defaulted or lower, and calling someone a troll and bashing him gets rewarded with Excellents. If the ratings cannot be controlled decently enough, as in friends rating friends, and socks rating 20 post Guru's, then perhaps there need to be some minor changes here or there.

Perhaps actual ratings need to be restricted to just the FFXI Feedback forum. Perhaps the only place where it truly matters if a suggestion is good or bad.

Or perhaps Scholar, Guru and Sage just need to be dependant on how long you have been a member, and all posts should simply start at Decent with their ratings independant on one another.

I feel that without people rating each other into oblivion or having to fight to make what you say stay visible to most others, we can engage in more decent conversations without the whole need to bash others for not agreeing with you.

Yeah bro, you have some selfish desire to see nuked posts, that often contain direct links to viruses, keyloggers, extremely offensive **** like tubgirl, spam, rmt adds, "ZOMG fill out my 1st semester grad school survey please" posts, posts detailing sensitive personal information, as well as extremely unsavory folks that **** and **** all over the place. Now why you have that desire, I don't know, but that's the only possible desire you could harbour for wanting to see the unrated stuff.

Let's try to keep on topic and the flaming to nil.