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Why isn't Karma enabled here?

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Haase:
I used to lump Karma in that bloated unnecessary group, but then one of my users mentioned wanting to be able to do something like that.

So I relabeled them "cool points" on the site, and everyone seems to like it.  So I think the moral of that story is that you need to use your imagination a bit.  Maybe "Karma" does suck for you, but maybe you have an advice forum and just changing the text to "credibility" or "usefullness" will make a world of difference to your users.

[Unknown]:
*reminisces*

I remember when I turned karma on... after two weeks we had about three people so alienated, the community has never seen them again.

Since them, I've left it off.

-[Unknown]

Haase:

--- Quote from: [Unknown] on August 10, 2003, 05:15:44 PM ---I remember when I turned karma on... after two weeks we had about three people so alienated, the community has never seen them again.

--- End quote ---

See...  there's another very good use for the Karma Mod...  the userbase gets a chance to self-regulate.   :o

Overseer:
haha yeah... that has happened since i enabled it on my board.. its actually worked quite well..  :o

charpress:
I turned karma on about a month ago and put up a poll at the same time asking people if they wanted to keep the feature.

About 80% said they liked it.

The first thing I noticed was that people were actually concerned about getting karma --which was sort of a surprise to me. The next thing I noticed was that some people who had a habit of being a bit rude suddenly were nicer.

So, I used to think it was a waste of space, now I have a different opinion.

I'd like to change the karma/applaud/smite terms but have never been able to figure out anything significantly better.

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