TOPIC: Opinions on the forums karma system

First of all I am going to start by letting you know the reason I made this is because I tend to linger around the forums actively and have been noticing that since I got a couple negative karma points from a few people I got banned from the server I have started to see a lot of negative karma being put on me. I do not negatively reply to people's posts and I also don't act childish on the forum. If that I help more people on the forums than criticise. I noticed today that I reached a whopping total of -10 karma which doesn't seem bad to me it's just that it gives that reputation of being a negative person who is disliked in the community and part of the reason I got these from what I suspect is inflated forum accounts. such as the 6 that were created today who actually have 0 in-game time according to the stats on gametracker (I find it hard to believe that none of these 6 users use the same name as their steam name. Not even one.

I am asking that a forum moderator or staff could check if the 6 forum accounts created are the ones that gave me the extra negative 6 karma and if they could be undone as I would prefer not to look like the negative one on the forums.

Forum Accounts Created Recently:


I am also going to add as a side note that I have recently had a run in with somebody in-game who was Turkish (I think not 100% sure) but these names all seem to have a similar ring to them and are out of the ordinary English names.

Again I am sorry but this stuff gets to me as I do struggle from a bipolar behaviour disorder and if my guard is down stuff throws me off. Any other day and this stuff wouldn't of bothered me but today I think it is immature and unfitting that I have this many negative karma points.

I've seen you post a lot of constructive and helpful comments on forums and today I noticed you had ten -karma I was very confused myself.
I hope this problem is sorted because to me it looks like a hate crime.
Good luck.
Regards
Crazyswiss

I have given you +karma

Thanks Dcxbigdaddy, I appreciate the karma but it doesn't do much other than smear a forum user. Nobody knows that it was implemented into the Kunena Forum applet to applaud somebody for something useful or boo them for something that was destructive :3

My -Karma is on the way,
for you crying about an useless thing.
Karma is worthless, don't cry about it and open a thread.

Lombardi, if you're being so unkind on the forums, expect to get negative karma.
But I agree with you to some degree, nobody should pay attention to the karma meter, people usually give minuses because they have a butt pain against you or they just dislike you.

Was not crying just simple stating that there is somebody inflating the server with fake accounts. Their main account can be banned for that. Karma makes somebody look bad and I don't care about it but if I was to look like the worst user on the forums it would be kind of ironic. Anyway enough of me being negative the issue was sorted.

Don't worry, karma is a useless tool, if you're doing your staff job or stating your opinion, prepare to get negative karma. I don't care about my -1 karma. The accounts are probably spam bots.

Thank yous are where it's at. All the cool kids use it.

I, personally, don't judge by karma. You seem to do your best at trying to help out on the forums so even if you had -100 karma I would still think the same about you.

We don't have a active karma system on the forums,
and we don't set requirements on things with them either.. like:
"You need at least 200 karma to be able to apply for moderator in any of our gameservers"

So.. Keep calm, its just a useless number on our forum.

Yeah I understand, at the time I don't know what I was thinking. It is uncontrollable that sometimes I might overreact to things that are pretty much nothing. I just hate the idea of the karma system anyway I would care if it was removed in all honesty.

If it cant be fixed in some sort of way then remove it, i have terrible Karma for reason i don't know

Yeah if a somebody wanted to remove the karma system from showing they could use this Link to help them configure the Kunena Forum settings and edit the setting "Show Karma indicator" to "No"