Reputation points

[smartmouse]

Hello,
before upgrading to SMF 2.1 I was using a mod that let users to add good or bad point eachother.
I can't remember what mod was, but I see that I have "karma_good" and "karma_bad" fields in the "smf_members" SQL table.

Could this a glue to figure out what mod was? If it does, can I use the same on SMF 2.1?

[_.EvilExecutor._]

It's an in-built feature of SMF.

You can find it  here- YOUR SITE NAME»Forum »Administration Center »Core Features

[Kindred]

But I believe karma was removed from 2 1

[Arantor]

It was, because almost without exception, karma toxified communities.

(I am the one who removed it.)

[Deaks]

You could however enable the likes feature:

Admin - Configuration - Features and Options - Likes

This will allow users to like a post if they agree with it, their is no unlike option if they disagree with it and I cant ever see it being added.

[Illori]

but karma was per person and likes is per post, they act very differently.

[Arantor]

Being per-person is why karma is fundamentally toxic; it creates cliques around which people tend to gather.

[Deaks]

but karma was per person and likes is per post, they act very differently.

Never stated otherwise Illori, I mentioned it as an alternative, I also mentioned it is post based

Being per-person is why karma is fundamentally toxic; it creates cliques around which people tend to gather.

I agree dude!

[smartmouse]

Thank you for your replies. Yes, now I remember, it was a built-in feature... and I see that it could be toxic.

Anyway, any mod could enable the same karma feature again? I mean that it could use those SQL fields ("karma_good" and "karma_bad").

[Arantor]

In theory there's no reason why the code couldn't be pulled out of 2.0 and tidied up for 2.1, but no-one's done it, partially because likes are vastly more popular and partially because I don't think anyone here who might care has seen *any* instance of it not being toxic when applied *solely* to people rather than to content.

Especially since by default out of the box you can upvote the same person over and over with I think only an hour's grace between upvotes. Doesn't take many people doing it to mess with it.

If any mod were to do it, much more likely that you'd want to customise it specifically for your site and hopefully find a way to detoxify it. But I haven't seen it done.

[Illori]

https://github.com/live627/smf-karma i dont know if it works with the current code in SMF 2.1, but it has been put out there.

[kokkieblanda]

is something like this possible?
Posts: 7,076 | Likes: 2049 (=received)

[Arantor]

The structure of the database makes this difficult to do efficiently (and it has a similar problem is that it gives popular posters a reputation tha isn't necessarily deserved)