Why so many newbies with so much karma?

[taosaur]

While I wasn't here for the implementation of karma, I suspect it was a practical joke by the admins, directed at users who were asking for a reputation system on the board. I would class MR's karma as a satire of reputation systems on other forums. It is, however, aptly named: the precise workings of karma are one of Buddhism's four "imponderables."

Off topic ( ), I've noticed here and elsewhere that many, many people misspell "palindrome" in a very specific way: dropping the n. It's less often used, but proportionately as common as substituting "weary" for "wary." What's up with that?

[DiapDealer]

I've noticed here and elsewhere that many, many people misspell "palindrome" in a very specific way: dropping the n. It's less often used, but proportionately as common as substituting "weary" for "wary." What's up with that?

Welcome, to another edition of Palindrome!
(Two men enter, one man leaves! Two men enter, one man leaves!)

Or was that something else?

[MrsJoseph]

Originally Posted by taosaur

While I wasn't here for the implementation of karma, I suspect it was a practical joke by the admins, directed at users who were asking for a reputation system on the board. I would class MR's karma as a satire of reputation systems on other forums. It is, however, aptly named: the precise workings of karma are one of Buddhism's four "imponderables."

You know, it's probably coded directly into the forum template. I used to run my own forum and it had a pre-coded karma system already added. I either allowed it or not.

And yes, it was named "karma" and each person started with just 10 karma points.

[nose-in-a-book]

ok, so whats reputation, and what effect does reducing it have? if i use all of it, do i now own no rep? utterly strange - to- me system here

[Freeshadow]

I think there are several (maybe modules) possible karma system addable to this boardsoft. I've been on forums running it exactly like here but have also seen a +1/-1
thumb-per posting system (with reciever readable comments like here)

[TedJ]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Welcome, to another edition of Palindrome!
(Two men enter, one man leaves! Two men enter, one man leaves!)

Or was that something else?

No, you're thinking of Thunderdome... Palindrome is how they decide the governor of Alaska.

[ProfCrash]

and some of us just can't spell. and spell checker does not work at the office and we are too lazy to type everything in word first to check for spelling and grammar errors.

And by some of us I mean me.

[VydorScope]

Originally Posted by nose-in-a-book

ok, so whats reputation, and what effect does reducing it have? if i use all of it, do i now own no rep? utterly strange - to- me system here

There is no way to reduce it, it purely up. Outside of this thread, its a merely way to thank a poster for a great post of some kind (Funny, Helpful, Clever, etc). In side this thread.. its become a bit of a strategic war game of ppl making and breaking special numbers

[ApK]

Originally Posted by VydorScope

In side this thread.. its become a bit of a strategic war game of ppl making and breaking special numbers

Fibonacci series? First 5 primes? Anyone geek enough?

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by ApK

Fibonacci series? First 5 primes? Anyone geek enough?

Primes (above 2) are only odd, so can only be give to people with odd karma.

Fibonacci numbers get very big very quickly. There are only 35 under 10,000,000:


1 1
2 1
3 2
4 3
5 5
6 8
7 13
8 21
9 34
10 55
11 89
12 144
13 233
14 377
15 610
16 987
17 1597
18 2584
19 4181
20 6765
21 10946
22 17711
23 28657
24 46368
25 75025
26 121393
27 196418
28 317811
29 514229
30 832040
31 1346269
32 2178309
33 3524578
34 5702887
35 9227465

[HomeInMyShoes]

Right now, I give out karma in powers of two depending on how useful/entertaining the post is for me. Right now it's a scale from 1-10 with the lowest I'll give being 2^3 and the highest being 2^12. Yeah, I'm geeky.

[KC Hughes]

I'm a newbie with only 10 karma so, in the infamous words of Sally Fields You don't like me, you really don't like me.

[HomeInMyShoes]

^I'm not falling for that.

[KC Hughes]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^I'm not falling for that.

^In the famous words of Arnold from Differnent Strokes, "Whatchoo talking about Willis?

[HomeInMyShoes]

^In the famous words of Charlie Brown, "Good grief."