Silk Road forums
Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: sorasgaze on November 15, 2012, 10:57 am
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What's up with people leaving karma for no reason? Most of us here try to keep a good reputation, I have no idea why I have -2 karma, I haven't said anything offensive, complained about downtime, I think before I post so this wouldn't happen. I'm trying to keep my reputation good because I plan to remain a buyer on SR and stay active on the forums, It's not a big deal to me or probably a lot of others on here, but it just bothers me for some reason because I've done nothing wrong or posted anything ridiculous besides one thread making fun of everyone's conspiracies on SR downtime, but obviously I wasn't serious. Karma isn't really important at all in my opinion, but if SR went down again for a long period of time, and you were a vendor selling to certain people on the forum, I think it could be used as an efficient way of how trustworthy the person is, obviously if you were a buyer and SR was down and someone offers to sell you on here, you wouldn't buy from them if they have +3|-20 because it's so inaccurate. I've seen admins/mods on here with +300/-200 and I've seen them post only on-topic information relating to whatever the thread was about that they were posting in. As I said, no one really cares about karma, I've just noticed it's so inaccurate.
There's really no actual point of a karma system because 50% of the people on the forums lately have been trolls or angry junkies fiending, etc.
I know forum staff is busy, but I think we all wish half of the people on here lately should be banned. Tried to go through DPR's update thread yesterday looking for useful information and literally 75% of all the replies were just bullshit.
I got kind of off-topic and typed more than I intended to, sorry, I can't sleep and have literally nothing else interesting to do, hopefully you get the point at least.
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You've hit the nail on the head when you described typical forum users these days. Anyway don't let the karma thing prevent you from what you want to contribute in the forum, I'm sure you'll anyway get recognized :) And +1 from me to balance things a bit ;)
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Thanks! I don't want karma for no reason though, I was just complaining about it. haha.
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Thanks! I don't want karma for no reason though, I was just complaining about it. haha.
Which is why I gave you -1
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Thanks! I don't want karma for no reason though, I was just complaining about it. haha.
Which is why I gave you -1
I see what you did there, and I like it. Personally, I'd embrace the negative rep. If everybody likes everything you say all the time, you're doing something wrong.
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I must confess I still can't figure the karma system out. There seems to be no button or control for giving it so I'm not sure how its applied.
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I must confess I still can't figure the karma system out. There seems to be no button or control for giving it so I'm not sure how its applied.
You need to have 100+ posts before you can give Karma
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I must confess I still can't figure the karma system out. There seems to be no button or control for giving it so I'm not sure how its applied.
You need to have 100+ posts before you can give Karma
Thanks Quinone.
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Thanks! I don't want karma for no reason though, I was just complaining about it. haha.
Which is why I gave you -1
This is what I mean, like seriously? I posted this in the off-topic section, meaning it's not important. yet you read it out of choice but gave a -1 because I was trying to explain how it could be used for other reasons. You don't agree? I just don't see what was wrong with me posting this, yes, it's complaining, but the type of complaining that should get people -1 is "OMG DPR RAN OFF WITH ALL THE BITCOINS WE ARE FUCKED.". I know this is stupid, I wasn't even going to post it at first, I just got bored and figured it would make type of sense and maybe someone knew what I meant. I understand this isn't important at all and no one really cares but it was just my opinion on it, not being a dick but you'd be a good example.
Click on a thread, read it, if it's not interesting to you, just do what everyone else does and use that left arrow in your browser.
I think opinions should be accepted because there's really no reason for giving someone -1 because of how they feel/think about something.
In my opinion, +1 should be for someone posting useful information, answering a question, helping someone, etc.
-1 should be given for arguing, trolling, spamming, etc, I'm pretty sure that's how it was meant to work anyways.
It actually makes sense why it's so inaccurate, face it, the forums are pretty unorganized and there's a shitload of people spamming and it continues to happen, this isn't anyone's fault, I understand the mods and admins are busy and can't take care of stuff 24/7, it's just amazing how many people come on here to troll and spam and some stay on here to do that stupid shit all day. (example: TiredofThisBullshit, and the ones spamming the "$7 FOR 10 BITCOIN GO TO THIS LINK.", every board on the forums is flooded with that post. Fuck, I hope all these weird ass people stop posting now that everything's working again.
Added onto this a lot, sorry again if it's too much to read, didn't post cause someone replied and I didn't notice so I figured I wasn't done. lol
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karma don't mean shit bro take a look at mine <<<<<<<<<
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oh no! somebody has more internet points than me!
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The real karma is in your life, and you make your own karma by doing good or bad things in real life.
As long as you know in your heart that you are good person, and you behave as a good person your karma will always stay positive.
Don't give a damn about some Bath Salt crackhead who gave you -1. You forget that you are in a drugged ppl community ;)
Peace
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Yeah, I'm aware it doesn't do anything, but I see it to help build some kind of trust in certain situations, of course I got -3 from posting this, kinda saw that coming. Real funny, guys. ;)
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Forum karma is a silly concept and means nothing. Anyone who bases their opinion of you on those dumb pluses and minuses is an idiot you don't want liking you.
I'll give + karma here and there, since I know it means something to some people. (I remember giving you a +1 for something sora)
But I don't bother giving negative karma, nor do my own karma numbers mean anything to me.