- Banshee Barron
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One other possibility we're looking at is a kind of "karma" system. Basically, a new user would be limited to a crappy title, a limited set of avatars, and maybe some limitations on how much he can post.
To gain karma, various things can be done. A linked gamertag, time passing without being blacklisted, 7th column participation, etc. Lots of things could modify your "karma" either way. We could also put a button on post that people could click if they think the post is an especially good post. We would not put any negative feedback buttons or stuff like that, because that can be abused easily and some people wear negative feedback like a badge of honor.
Anyway, as these actions are recorded, your "karma" increases, granting rewards to the user. Things like granting the user special titles in the public forums, a expanded set of avatars only available to high karma users, and anything else we think of.
Alas, I have joined this discussion a tad late, so here are my views.
* You forget human nature- and how greedy some people are. Anyone could simply go in and make another account, then proceed to press the “karma” button in every one of their master login’s posts. It’s something that is extremely easy and effective, and yet one could change their Karma dramatically- he could, with no trouble, pass any honest user in no time whatsoever. I see only one way to solve this problem, and that’s to only let someone entirely trustworthy (mods, Bungie employees) be able to add karma points using the posts’ karma button. Otherwise we have some lazy idiots trying to make themselves popular in the shortest amount of time possible.
* If somehow we have just one person with very hi karma who is a jerk, then we run the risk of new users trying to act like him. For example, mithander(I think that's how you spell it) was a troll, and yet I noticed that some newer users admired him greatly. If we had the karma system going he would have had a fairly high rating because of the new, inexperienced users giving him points. He would then have followers (because of his karma) and a snowball effect would start.
* I see no other real problem in Achronos' idea- other than people would wear the karma as a status symbol to impress other users, and consider themselves "better" than everyone below them. I fear that if we go ahead with this we could have someone who is abusive with their karma and status, and boss everyone else around because they feel they are more powerful than their lower-karma brethren.