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« on: April 01, 2006, 06:17:08 pm » |
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Today I noticed the addition of the "Karma" feature involving Applaud/Smite ability next to every user name. Personally, I find it ennoying, pointless, and a popularity contest. Its almost like a stroking contest for bigger name TMD members.
It obviously does no harm, but it has nothing to do with magic, and fosters nothing but bad will. Am I the only one who feels this way?
So my question is: Do you like this new feature? Do you even care about? and last but not least... has there been a person you have smited 10+ times yet (Evenpence, Smennen, Forcefieldyou, etc?) I havent, but someone must of with the large # of smites.
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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2006, 06:28:47 pm » |
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You just got smited son
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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2006, 06:32:03 pm » |
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You just got smited son
Ouch I am sooo hurt =p ... You stalling newb.
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« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2006, 06:52:33 pm » |
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I blame that Orlove dude. Looking at my own karma score, it's all a big conspiracy* to get rid of me, I tells ya! It won't work, dammit!
*Or maybe it has something to do with the date being April 1...
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« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2006, 07:29:57 pm » |
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Smitings for people who ask questions.
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« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2006, 07:32:22 pm » |
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Ah yes, what a horrible feature this is. If only it was designed to last for a short period of time...
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« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2006, 10:02:59 pm » |
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I have idea what this is, but I just tripled Hi-Val's score.Â
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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2006, 10:12:58 pm » |
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i gave travis his 50 cause he has been cool to me at the richmond tournaments, and i gave vroman 50 as well cause he does cool custom cards.
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« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2006, 10:42:22 pm » |
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Frown I'm negative
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« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2006, 11:15:52 pm » |
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Ah, somebody smited the shit out of me! AWESOME!! (but if something bad happens to me, like I wake up with a hangover or Iwith Josh's sister again... I'm holding TMD responsible.) I clicked on the feature one time, and one time only.
I smited Hi-Val. I'm not sure why...
Doug is such a nice guy I just wanted to let him know I'm on to his tricks. Smited Biatch.
I actually just can't justify why I did it. I wish I could take it all back, but its too late for that now...
What a stupid feature.
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« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2006, 11:30:40 pm » |
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I kinda like the karma feature--it's fun to see how people behave when they're given something like this and not told what to do with it.
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« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2006, 12:22:42 am » |
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I kinda like the karma feature--it's fun to see how people behave when they're given something like this and not told what to do with it.
I clicked the shit out of it.
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« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2006, 12:23:46 am » |
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« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2006, 01:09:47 am » |
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I get the feeling it would eventually crash the server due to an incredible amout of clicks.
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« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2006, 01:20:15 am » |
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I get the feeling it would eventually crash the server due to an incredible amout of clicks.
I doubt it if it was a person clicking. What would crash it would be everyone spamming it with requests. Although I'm sure that if it was on a more permanent basis, they'd do something a bit more involved than just index.php?action=applaud. Any one of the millions of autorefresh scripts could mod people up/down into oblivion.
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« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2006, 01:40:55 am » |
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Oh, it only only allows any user to vote on any given person once every X hours. The default setting for X was 1, but I changed it to 0 to make things more interesting.
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« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2006, 12:48:03 pm » |
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I think it's a great way for someone on TMD to get a "quality rep" that is more relevent than post #. If people trash a person's replies on a consistent basis, that person might re-consider some of their posts.
That said, I think you might have to reset the numbers for the first few weeks until the urge to "go crazy" diminshes and people become bored spending clicks to give someone -40.
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« Reply #17 on: April 02, 2006, 01:20:56 pm » |
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If I wanted to use it that way (which I don't), I'd set it to show karma totals (rather than positive/negative separately), and I'd set X to something like 100.
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« Reply #18 on: April 02, 2006, 01:23:39 pm » |
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You'd also probably want to set it so that people can't change karma of a post more than once.
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« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2006, 01:26:53 pm » |
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Oh, if we're getting into specialty mods/reprogramming the karma software, then I'd probably just give everyone one vote/day--if you want to applaud a good post that day, then you don't get to smite anything.
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« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2006, 05:17:16 pm » |
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If I wanted to use it that way (which I don't), So what was the point of it then, other than to see how many smites people could get? Doesn't seem very informative, and giving someone 40 smites is pointless and elementary....... I like the concept, still not understanding the motivation.
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« Reply #21 on: April 02, 2006, 05:44:24 pm » |
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Hint: check your calendar.
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« Reply #22 on: April 02, 2006, 06:03:57 pm » |
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Hint: check your calendar.
ok, so no one wastes anymore time - it was from April 1st, a.k.a. April Fools Day
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« Reply #23 on: April 02, 2006, 06:16:12 pm » |
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Sorry....I thought I has seen it there before that. Anyway, I think it is an idea with merit. /end
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