Forum - Karma System

[Frosk]

Hi everyone!

We've modified the Karma reputation system here in the forum.

From now on, registrated users will only be able to spread positive reputation to other users, meanwhile negative reputation will only be spreadable for moderators and administrators.

This way, we avoid the misuse of this system that lately has been given, whether by personal issues between users, or by just anonymously insulting other members of the community.

In case any of you have some sort of personal problem with another user, you will have to handle this over the private messages system.

Best regards.

[Seher]

Or via positive karma.

I’ll miss puzzling about whether my gray karma was supposed to be negative or positive. Some of those messages… (Google produces better English. )

[Tenel_Ka]

Pretty sure there are players who send green karma to other players just because they share the same opinions or are friends. Doesn't mean that positive karma should be removed because of the actions of the minority. While some negative karma is misused, I have never seen a player with a neutral/negative reputation who didn't deserve it.

In this system everybody will have green karma and won't face any consequences for creating offensive or pointless posts and threads. There isn't exactly a heavy administrator/moderator presence in English forums, so many negative posts will go unchecked.

At least allow players to leave neutral feedback. When players can leave feedback anonymously, it's when they can be the most honest. PMing someone to tell them that their post was mean and offensive can just cause problems on forums and in game.

[Immune]

Rather than remove negative karma, here are 2 other options.

Make it so a comment can only be added to green karma, not to red.

Or

Have karma with a comment automatically include the username of the person who sent it.

Maybe not perfect, but more effective than removing it entirely I'd think.

[Archonaut]

Originally Posted by Immune

Rather than remove negative karma, here are 2 other options.

Make it so a comment can only be added to green karma, not to red.

Or

Have karma with a comment automatically include the username of the person who sent it.

Maybe not perfect, but more effective than removing it entirely I'd think.

I don't really like the first one, wouldn't you want to know what the reason behind the red karma would be? A real argument or just someone trolling.

On the other hand the automatically sending the username of the person who gave you the karma would be a nice idea.

[Tenel_Ka]

Originally Posted by Immune

Have karma with a comment automatically include the username of the person who sent it.

I'd rather karma remained anonymous. If a player received red karma for a negative post, they may retaliate and send red karma back, purely for revenge. It would make players shy away from sending red karma.

[Quincebo]

Nice Frosk.
Thank you

[Seher]

Originally Posted by Tenel_Ka

When players can leave feedback anonymously, it's when they can be the most honest. PMing someone to tell them that their post was mean and offensive can just cause problems on forums and in game.

Sorry, that’s just pathetic. Have the guts to say what you want, or don’t say it.

I agree that seeing the name just makes pathetic people give red karma in return, so red karma should either be removed entirely (like it is now, I like it) or made without message attached to it. Which would kind of defeat the purpose it is for, so I understand and support the decision that has been made.

[Tenel_Ka]

Sorry, that’s just pathetic. Have the guts to say what you want, or don’t say it.

If this was merely a discussion forum, I'd agree. But it's a very small MMO full of vindictive players, and angering the wrong person will make gameplay and trading more difficult for you.

Anyway, I really think neutral karma should remain. It's an easy way to provide feedback and it doesn't impact the player's reputation. There will, of course, be some offensive and stupid comments, but if a player can't handle receiving them then they shouldn't be on the internet, let alone a forum.

[_Kharbon_]

The problem with negative rep was that players used it not only to verbaly attack people from forum, but also to get their "revenge" from the game.
This is a good step imo. I don't have a problem with it.