Karma MathFollow

Technically both posts would be excellent, one would just be rated lower.

I know, easy for me to say, but karma is fine how it is. There's few sub-default posters who didn't deserve it and once you're at scholar+ everything else is just pretty colors.

I'm still a Scholar because I made my first thousand or so posts about 6 years ago as a teenager trying to "fit in" with the Asylum back when it was hardcore. Basically all I did was make an *** out of myself and probably came close to being banned. I know I was definitely made no-rate for a long time and had sub-scholar status for many years after.

I'd like to believe I've grown up a lot since then, and my karma somewhat represents this as I am now borderline Sage. But because of the old days, unless I start all over, I don't think I'll ever actually make Sage.

How old, though? And while it won't affect a present karma score, it still affects the individual post.

Get over it?

It's "Clique", Christ.

It's obvious you knew it was wrong but were too lazy to even think about looking up the right spelling.


Tailmon is reason 1 why the karma system must remain the same.

The comma goes inside the quotes. And Allegory taught me a long time ago that when you're talking about a specific word, you should italicize it instead of quoting it. I remembered, Allegory!!

Am I guru yet?

You scratch my back, and then I'll clean it.

If Postcount <= 1
then karma = 3
else karma = n^-1Σ [K_n(n-1)(1+A)] / [(n-1)(1+A)]


Not that hard.

edit: actually it's already set up to ignore the ratings of your first 16 posts, so it should already be fine.

Edited, Jul 20th 2010 10:04pm by ThePsychoticOne

Yeah pissing off admins is definitely bad for your karma

Edited, Jul 20th 2010 10:16pm by ThePsychoticOne

Kaolian doesn't care about whack people.

I have a simple rule I try to follow in regards to karma. If 50 or more individual people per month are activly rating you down, perhaps the problem isn't karma camping, and maybe I should stay out of the way. People such as varrusword fall into this category.

Tell you what though, how about this, Tailmon. I'll reset your karma to 3.00 if you want, just this once. Let you sink or swim on your own merits and see what happens. People rate you less often than they did, maybe you have made a more favorable impression on them. Or maybe they got tired of rating. Either way, it's a shot if you want it. If so, reply here or PM me. If not, don't say I never offered a reset.

'dem some mighty powuhful magicks you's messin' with thar Kaolian.