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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:11 pm
by feyd
We had "solved" a while ago, although only for moderators.. but it got lost during one of the "upgrades" to phpbb.

As ~califdon said, any karma-like system is always available for abuse. All one can do is hope to mitigate it via some rule set for the bonuses on may receive. I personally like how Yahoo Answers is set up, karma-wise, on the whole. But they have to deal with point gamers just the same.

Provided their is no tangible score involved, it seriously limits how much point-gaming one may be able to do without inventing ones' own game.

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:40 am
by John Cartwright
feyd wrote:We had "solved" a while ago, although only for moderators.. but it got lost during one of the "upgrades" to phpbb.

As ~califdon said, any karma-like system is always available for abuse. All one can do is hope to mitigate it via some rule set for the bonuses on may receive. I personally like how Yahoo Answers is set up, karma-wise, on the whole. But they have to deal with point gamers just the same.

Provided their is no tangible score involved, it seriously limits how much point-gaming one may be able to do without inventing ones' own game.
I had Yahoo Answers in mind since I began reading this thread, and am glad somebody else pointed it out. Not to repeat but what has been said, but I'd really like to allow the OP to mark all useful posts to the thread, yada yada.

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:30 pm
by Kieran Huggins
volka wrote:If such a mod is installed I'd like the possibility of marking posts as "parrot" or "echo" :twisted:
Or (on the positive side) a "I second that" and/or "sounds reasonable" marker.
:yar: