- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: ObbiQuiet
Consider - if you get extra benefits because you've been here longer, that doesn't reward the more active members of the community. If there's a guy who's been here since 2001 but (somehow) HASN'T reached the required post count, then I'd say he's not an active enough member of the community to be rewarded. Who cares what the guy looks like if he only posts once a month?
I realize you're defending yourself because you don't post frequently, but be realistic.
Edit: Also, if there's going to be a way to improve one's standing it needs to be automatic. There will simply be too much traffic for mods to EVER justly give out kudos.
Edit2: Actually, maybe we could work in a recommendation system? Let the mods or Bungie staff flag certain posters are responsible, active community guys, then they're able to say "Yeah, this guy's a really good poster" and bypass the post-count requirement for people such as yourself who posts' are very meaningful, but who doesn't post frequently.
Why does x number posts counts as activity, why does "being a veteran" grant you power, as "Steve" perfectly said, it is not the count which matters but whats inside, how cheap it might sound to you.I think you should keep all members equal, no post counter, and no privileges(Though what i am saying now is in fight with a prev. post of mine :P)
Posted by: Achronos
Don't sell yourself short. The reason this thread was started was for exactly this kind of discussion. As you guys use the system the most, asking for your opinions on how to improve it is natural to us.
As for the comment about "demonstrating trust", you misunderstand my karma system. My system's primary purpose is NOT for keeping out spammers. That would be a "symptom-fix". No, the purpose is to solve a fundamental problem with our account system - that your identity is not valuable. In Xbox Live, your Gamertag is valuable - your identity and stats are connected to it. On bungie.net, you have nothing.
With the karma system, I'm attempting to make it attractive to not just discard one's account, to give our long time members and our newer, active members rewards for being "good members". It isn't about demonstrating trust - it is about receving rewards for being trustworthy - positive reinforcement. Better avatars, titles, maybe the ability to lock your own threads... etc. It just has the side effect of making those dummy accounts easier to spot and it makes it more painful if you get blacklisted.
Though note that granting such powers must be done very carefully, and not been based upon number of posts, nor his/her activity(though those two relate much).I think these powers/privileges must be a bit rare, or atleast have a good based reason for granting them. For reasons to do so, the feedback of the moderators will be usefull. Other ways are for me (at this moment) less effective.
-ApoX-
[Edited on 8/10/2004 3:19:40 PM]