If you're not logged in you will still see everyone's karmic ratings-- but you won't see the little karma icon in the lower right of each post that allows you to adjust it.

OK, let me finish the bug hunt and package it up. I did not write it intending to release, so I'm not sure how portable I made everything.. I think it is pretty good though, one karma.php file and then a few mods in showthread and postbit and you're done.

I did finish the alert mod function. I have no idea how Sitepoint's works, but the way mine works is that it just sets a flag in the karma table on that postID. So it's easy to run a query-- show all posts in the karma table that have the alert flag on. Then the mods can scroll through the alerted list and see what's up.. there is no functionality to route a message anywhere. If you tell me how you think it should work, I might figure something out. Right now I just have the mods run "alertmod.php" which will bring up all of the alerted threads with a function to turn all alerts off after they have been viewed.

Give me a day or two to make sure I have it in a complete tested form before releasing. The users really like it so far!