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beppe · 08-10-2011, 06:36 PM

The formula for karma power is this
(# of days registered/30) + (# of posts/40) + (Giver's present karma/200)
it is still in operation. It gives my karma punch exactly.

The deal is that you can't re-tap a given person until you've tapped three others, and you can only tap 10 times in 24 hours.

An underlying mechanism that somehow distort things is that when I receive a k for a neat/funny/helpful post, I thank the giver with a message but then I look out his/her posts to reciprocate at the first occasion. It comes naturally. To me at least. Then I might stay put for a while not bothering to k anybody. But there is a tendency to karma who karmas you. Now I am in a phase in which I like karming around. It is a rather loose thing. Or. There is somebody that I see close to a nice k level, so for me is a real pleasure to help him/her to get there. I can give more then 1 Mk in a day and 1Mk to a single person in 4 days. If I set my mind to it. It is not so stupid as it seems. He/she will make nicer and nicer posts under that stimulation. Nicer in the context of that particular thread. And of course the threads that we follow are the sexiest of all, otherwise we would be following other threads. Elementary, Watson.

Now the system looks a little inflated and distorted. But look, consider the k's you have received, by whom and why, and find your k-joy in that.

What I would like is that the power to be reset the karma of each of us to zero. At some point, like when one of us reaches 100,000,000 karma points. Just as an example. Or on the first of January, or whatever. And we all start all over again. With 100M kpoints my punch would be about 0.5M. Whow. A bomb. So what. A bomb by a lightweight like me does not compare with a snowflake from a heavily serious guy, that gives karma only in a week of Sundays. Of course, his/her karma is so preciously valuable. So green powers to be, listen to me. Put all the K's to zero. Right now. You men/girls of influence, listen to me, for once. Do the right thing.

Like if my K points would be put to zero, my punch would be 150, instead of about 100,000. And my friend, of which I do not disclose the name, that posts mostly smiles to new comers would have 658 instead of the 10000 he probably has now. But for me getting karma from him is a big honor, because he is wise and I value his appreciation very much.
So, all in all what matters is not so much how many K points we have accumulated but how many times we receive it and by whom, and for which reason.

08-10-2011, 06:36 PM	#93
beppe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,161 Karma: 81026524 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Italy Device: Kindle3, Ipod4, IPad2	The formula for karma power is this (# of days registered/30) + (# of posts/40) + (Giver's present karma/200) it is still in operation. It gives my karma punch exactly. The deal is that you can't re-tap a given person until you've tapped three others, and you can only tap 10 times in 24 hours. An underlying mechanism that somehow distort things is that when I receive a k for a neat/funny/helpful post, I thank the giver with a message but then I look out his/her posts to reciprocate at the first occasion. It comes naturally. To me at least. Then I might stay put for a while not bothering to k anybody. But there is a tendency to karma who karmas you. Now I am in a phase in which I like karming around. It is a rather loose thing. Or. There is somebody that I see close to a nice k level, so for me is a real pleasure to help him/her to get there. I can give more then 1 Mk in a day and 1Mk to a single person in 4 days. If I set my mind to it. It is not so stupid as it seems. He/she will make nicer and nicer posts under that stimulation. Nicer in the context of that particular thread. And of course the threads that we follow are the sexiest of all, otherwise we would be following other threads. Elementary, Watson. Now the system looks a little inflated and distorted. But look, consider the k's you have received, by whom and why, and find your k-joy in that. What I would like is that the power to be reset the karma of each of us to zero. At some point, like when one of us reaches 100,000,000 karma points. Just as an example. Or on the first of January, or whatever. And we all start all over again. With 100M kpoints my punch would be about 0.5M. Whow. A bomb. So what. A bomb by a lightweight like me does not compare with a snowflake from a heavily serious guy, that gives karma only in a week of Sundays. Of course, his/her karma is so preciously valuable. So green powers to be, listen to me. Put all the K's to zero. Right now. You men/girls of influence, listen to me, for once. Do the right thing. Like if my K points would be put to zero, my punch would be 150, instead of about 100,000. And my friend, of which I do not disclose the name, that posts mostly smiles to new comers would have 658 instead of the 10000 he probably has now. But for me getting karma from him is a big honor, because he is wise and I value his appreciation very much. So, all in all what matters is not so much how many K points we have accumulated but how many times we receive it and by whom, and for which reason.