I have no Karma?

[Otto Puzzell]

What - was it taken from me when it ran over your dogma?

[Ultra]

What - was it taken from me when it ran over your dogma?

Karma is something other members give you, good or bad, depending on how you are perceived by them.

Kind of like a popularity poll.

Right about now, I am glad to have it. 

[Otto Puzzell]

How do I boost a fellow posters Karma? 

[Ultra]

How do I boost a fellow posters Karma? 

One moment, please.......

[Ultra]

How do I boost a fellow posters Karma? 

One moment, please.......

Okay.

Maybe I don't understand"karma" yet.  I can change my own in my profile.  Perhaps that is becuase I am an admin.

Would a non-admin like to let us know if they can change their own karma within their user profile settings?

[Ultra]

I can change non-admins karma as well.  Rich now has some karma.

Perhaps a non-admin could try to change someone's karma as well?

[Otto Puzzell]

Turn it up to 10! No, make that 11. 

[Rich]

I would prefer that all my karma to be given to needy children.

[Otto Puzzell]

You, sir, are a man among men, and a paragon of virtue.

I salute you!

[roopull]

Something I do on my sites that I'd suggest to you, Ultra & Karn is to create 'test' usernames.  For example, create an account as a normal user entitled UltraTestAccount.  This way, you can fiddle with settings of the site & 'test' things when someone has a problem AND no one will accuse you of trying to have two online identities.

Karma, unless the premissions are different for this site, can usually only be added by admins, mods & members with a certain number of posts... I don't remember the default for the software, though.

FWIW, I'd disable the Karma feature.  It leads to too much drama & BS that detract from your forum.

Another suggestion, while I'm at it, make sure you have back-up admins so that if anything happens to you, the site can continue until you get your problems worked out...  Even if you're only away from the computer for a week, that can be disasterous, to say nothing if you were to pull a Justin...


Okay...  last suggestion...   I'd create a username like "Administrator" & share the password with your admins.  That way, if they ever DO have to do some real moderating, they're protected from personal attacks by the facelessness of the "Administrator" username.

[Ultra]

Something I do on my sites that I'd suggest to you, Ultra & Karn is to create 'test' usernames.  For example, create an account as a normal user entitled UltraTestAccount.  This way, you can fiddle with settings of the site & 'test' things when someone has a problem AND no one will accuse you of trying to have two online identities.

Karma, unless the premissions are different for this site, can usually only be added by admins, mods & members with a certain number of posts... I don't remember the default for the software, though.

FWIW, I'd disable the Karma feature.  It leads to too much drama & BS that detract from your forum.

Another suggestion, while I'm at it, make sure you have back-up admins so that if anything happens to you, the site can continue until you get your problems worked out...  Even if you're only away from the computer for a week, that can be disasterous, to say nothing if you were to pull a Justin...


Okay...  last suggestion...   I'd create a username like "Administrator" & share the password with your admins.  That way, if they ever DO have to do some real moderating, they're protected from personal attacks by the facelessness of the "Administrator" username.

Great ideas, Roo.

Thanks and welcome to the forum.