New forum features: Karma and “Thank You”

[AoP]

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With the constant influx of new users, the community wiki, community created guides and maps and other things, activity on the MWLL forums has rapidly increased. Most of this activity is useful, entertaining or helpful – others isn’t. It is for this reason we’ve decided to introduce two established community features to allow the community to reward good contributions – and contain the not so good ones.

While these features are currently enabled with as few restrictions as possible, we’d still like to ask you to use them wisely – don’t ’smite’ posts just because you dislike the poster for example. A user you dislike might still have posted a useful comment, guide or piece of advice – be fair and ‘applaud’. Just as much, don’t say ‘thank you’ for the sheer appearance of posters, but for useful, entertaining and thought-out posts.

[SquareSphere]

I'm a bit slow, but how do you do the thank you's?

[MWLL|Seraph]

Top right on the post, Thank you link.

[SquareSphere]

On the top right I only see the Quote button

[AoP]

On the top right I only see the Quote button

Insufficient permissions, I apologize.

[SquareSphere]

Oh there they are!

[(TLL)Sky_walker]

Hehe, sweet things! Thanks AoP! Great idea!

[Cam]

Perfect now I can lurk and subtly encourage ideas I like. *returns to lurking*

[snooggums]

How do you tell which posts received +/- karma to know which comments were supported/opposed?

[Redvan]

its like golf right?  lowest wins?

[MWLL|Seraph]

How do you tell which posts received +/- karma to know which comments were supported/opposed?

Karma is based on the person, not based on the posts. Thank yous are based on the post and I just readded them after the forum update

[Snowball]

I was just about to ask about the "Thank You"s being gone, as well as slight color changes on the forum.

Again, good to know I'm not just seeing things.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

How do you tell which posts received +/- karma to know which comments were supported/opposed?

Karma is based on the person, not based on the posts. Thank yous are based on the post and I just readded them after the forum update

Neg!

Karma/Smite is based on the text written in the post, and you either give Karma if you approve or likes what is being written, that said if it is of a unique nature. Or you smite it if you are directly of a hatred nature, not to be misunderstand as trolling.

The system should not be used based on personal resent towards anyone, regardless of your personal feelings against that person.

And yes the system is purely abusive also, that it can be altered via 1. administrative powers, 2. buddy banking, since there is no direct list of person giving K/S nor is the person giving K/S forced to write a reason for it which is linked to the post that the K/S was given for, present in the current system. So yes the default K/S fails to uphold any whatsoever logic nor has it any valid reasoning in its current system.

The Thanks is, however, is based on the fact that a person was giving a helpful hint, guide or other useful assistance towards another.

[MWLL|Seraph]

How do you tell which posts received +/- karma to know which comments were supported/opposed?

Karma is based on the person, not based on the posts. Thank yous are based on the post and I just readded them after the forum update

Neg!

Karma/Smite is based on the text written in the post, and you either give Karma if you approve or likes what is being written, that said if it is of a unique nature. Or you smite it if you are directly of a hatred nature, not to be misunderstand as trolling.

The system should not be used based on personal resent towards anyone, regardless of your personal feelings against that person.

In theory. Since the Smite/Karma is not even bound to the persons post this intended nature is not something we can actually track. We can't say "He was Smitten ()" because of the post or of his personality. Hence the Thank you would probably be a better indicator of that.

Agreed on the rest. Still a fun feature

[snooggums]

Since the Smite/Karma is not even bound to the persons post this intended nature is not something we can actually track. We can't say "He was Smitten ()" because of the post or of his personality. Hence the Thank you would probably be a better indicator of that.

Agreed on the rest. Still a fun feature

I think this makes it less useful for the original poster as they don't know which comment was smited, so they don't know what they said that was 'trolling'. In my case I'm fairly certain I was smited for telling someone that telling new players they were incompetent and shouldn't play the mod if they can't use their jumpjets to get into a mech easily was rude and unhelpful.

I will never know if it was that or saying that I would like a 3rd person view offline to get a better feel of a mechs size while piloting. It would be helpful for everyone to see which post had karma applied to the person but I do understand it can't be easily changed if it was not set up that way.