karma???

Here's the current situation, and settings:

Admins and Moderators cannot give or recieve karma points to each other.

Karma is set to work where moderators can assign them in their individual forums they moderate ONLY.

No person can get more than 1 karma point per thread (I think, or was it per message...) I think it's per thread...

I may change it so moderators can give karma points anywhere, even if they can't do other functions in forums they don't moderate. Let me think about it.

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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]

 

I heard when your karma goes down you get emailed or something.. I havent really tried this add-on to my ubb yet.

<font color="#000000">[Edited by eminem on July 08, 2000 (edited 1 time)]</font>

 

Receiving e-mail when a user gets bad points is a feature I chose not to use. I'm using karma in a more laid back way...

I also turned off the auto-ban, I like to do that manually...

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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]

 

(CaptKirk treading VERY lightly)...

What the heck do you have to do to get banned here? You Aliens are mighty "thick skinned". Did someone manage it already? I've been WAY more annoying here . than I was elsewhere and managed to get banned within a week or two "there"...

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Scotty, the native aliens here ARE friendly...

 

It has to be something fairly serious, like continously disobeying things in the rules like spamming, threats, etc.

In 2 months, we've only had to 'ban' one user.

I always give a warning or three, but won't hesitate to remove the user if they're going to cause problems to the general enjoyment of this system by others.

I'm a proponent of free speech, except when a line was clearly crossed... Then it's time to rip 'em a new a- err, ban them.

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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]

 

Now back on the karma topic-

Maybe it would be a good idea to have the system auto-mail the user when a mod drops (or adds) a karma point because I had my one valued point disappear and I don't know why (was it my ban question??). Do you keep karma in the Alien cookie? If so, does accessing from different systems imperil it? I access Soup from three systems- and one, the Virgin box, does not properly handle cookies as far as I can tell...

THX!!

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Scotty, the native aliens here ARE friendly...

 

Heya,

No, it's not stored in cookies, it's stored on the server...

As for e-mailing a user on karma add/remove, I'd rather keep that function off if I can. The e-mail would occur too frequently, and we certainly don't need any extra load. .

However it would be helpful to have some kind of history of who gave and took away. I hope that can happen at some point...

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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]

 

I *did* modify my profile - I tweaked my "interests" field a bit. I don't see as how that'd make a difference, but heck, it might be a bug, so I reckon I should mention it.

Karma karma karma karma karma from Alien...
You come and go...you come and go...

Okay...I'd better stop dating myself with this retro-80's stuff...



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My knob tastes funny.

 

I KNOW possum had 3...He had 2 and I gave him another in my post about my DVD player problem... so 2+1=3 .

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A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

 

Personally, I think he should get one for the Culture Club uh..remix .

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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. - Calvin

 

. I tell ya, the rep I'm gonna get...

A word to the wise: don't post a deal on AstroGlide in Hot Deals and then turn around to start quoting from the Culture Club.

Honestly, I'm a heterosexual male. Not that there's anything wrong with that! .


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My knob tastes funny.

 

And then what your little comment under your username says...

lmao

I never saw the Culture Club thing...

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A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

 

Hee hee hee... . The tag is a classic Ralph Wiggum quote, from a Simpsons episode where he & a few other kids were asked to watch an Itchy & Scratchy episode & critique it - the knob on Ralph's electronic recorder thingie mysteriously found its way into his mouth.

I don't know what *you* all were thinking! For shame! .

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My knob tastes funny.

 

Yikes! My karma dropped from 3 to zero in the last hour! Who am I offending?


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My knob tastes funny.

 

Hmm...

A post from you from 15 minutes earlier than this message showed +3 (in hotdeals).

Either their is a bug, or someone is playing games...

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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]

 

Tweaking my profile (I'm STILL trying to get alien passwords synced on my three systems) also seemed to have dumped my karma the other day... Alien, the trouble with karma must be in there...

I'll be the test- I'm currently at 2 karma points (I'm so proud). I'll go tweak my profile and preferences and see what happens.

Preferences didn't seem to change it...

Whoops- touching the profile set my karma to zero. We have a winner (or loser in this case...) .

Can I get those back for being a good little helpful alien prober??

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Scotty, the native aliens here ARE friendly...



<font color="#000000">[Edited by CaptKirk on July 12, 2000 (edited 4 times)]</font>

 

I'd hook you up with a few points if I could. . Taking one for the team - that's what it's all about!


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My knob tastes funny.

 

liltaz: Here's the Culture Club thing..

Have you ever heard the song Karma Chameleon?

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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. - Calvin

 

. yeah...hehe

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A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

 

ahahahaha you guys are funny. .

I'll run some tests and see if I can find this error on my end...

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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]