- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Having a karma system for a community this large will be difficult to manage I think, no matter how cool it sounds. It's hard to keep tabs on the good and bad posts at times so some people may not get the credit they deserve and others don't get the.. um negative points they deserve. :D
But the effects can go both ways, thats why it is a good idea to hide people's status from the public, that way they can't brag as it seems to be something the spammers and low lives seem to enjoy doing.
On that note I think there should be a gain points if your good system rather then a demote points if your bad system, since no one can see their own points then it dosen't matter. Also such a system will be easier to manage, and the server should only keep records of those with higher then 0, that way it saves space, I write code and from a coding aspect that will save alot of space on a server this big.
[Edited on 9/20/2005]