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I'm thinking of the comment limitations and the comment karma thing that the is it normal Staff just brought in at the start of 2014. How do you like it? What do you think? Is it necessary? I'm stuck on thoughts. Please vote and comment below. I would like to hear/read what you think now.
| Yes | 6 | |
| No. | 11 | |
| Other (comment below). | 3 |
Just another way to keep people from speaking their minds. I think it's a terrible idea. Besides, a lot of thumps downs are from people who have a personal vandetta against someone..
The karma system assumes that the community will use it correctly, i.e: thumbing up helpful answers and thumbing down comments that breach the community guidelines.
Unfortunately, we're not a perfect community. People thumb up sarcastic, witty comments even if they do little (or no) good for the OP. However, people do thumb up helpful advice at times, too.
I believe that the effectiveness of the comment karma policy will change as member dynamics change. Maybe with more people, this karma system will be the best choice.
I had no idea there was a "comment karma policy." I guess that explains why users make so many accounts.
? You lost me.
In slightly related news, I thought it was going to say karma police, which i had written on one of my first cars. You wanted to know.
[The following was retrieved and copy-pasted from the site FAQ.]
The automated comment karma system was introduced in January of 2014 to help increase comment quality on IIN. It does so by limiting the amount of comments that members can submit per 24 hour period if they aren't contributing positively to the community. All members are subject to the system equally.
Comment karma is an internal score assigned by the IIN system to each member, based on the quality of their comments (as judged by the community).
Your comment karma will increase if:
Your comments get more thumbs Up than Down
Your comments do not get reported (Note: Reports that the moderators disagree with have no negative effect, and in fact affect the karma of the reporter negatively instead!)
Your comment karma will decrease if:
Your comments get more thumbs Down than Up
Your comments DO get reported (And the moderators agree with the report and remove the comment. Incorrect reports will negatively affect the reporter's karma, beware.)
It's never impacted on me personally, and in principle it has enough positive and negative elements to leave me on the fence.
I suppose the best measure of it is how well it does the job - decreasing the amount of junk comments we ge. I can't say I've noticed a significant difference between now and then, although my memory is a flawed tool.