Profile Enhancements - e-steki Karma version 2.2

e-steki Karma v2

I'm really excited to present the new, better from all aspects, version of my previous hack (the one that was in beta stage). I've spent numerous hours to make this, its my greatest modification so far, so I hope you like it!

What is it?
e-steki Karma is a powerful system to let users rate each other with a rating from -5 to +5. Each user's karma is a number, which is the average of all votes they have received. Refer to the Features section for more information.

What's the use?

1. Less flames. Users vent their spleens on rating the one that got on their nerves with a -5 and that's it.
2. Easier spotting of bad members/trolls by new users. This way, new users will not take seriously the bad members' posts and they won't get a bad idea about your forum, they will just think "oh nobody likes that guy anyway, he's not representative of the forum".
3. Users try to have a good behaviour because they know that otherwise their karma will decrease.
4. On a big board, it makes it easier for you to spot members that would perhaps make a good moderator (if they have a high karma value) or members that may need to get banned (if they have a very low karma value). You will also be able to judge how a ban will affect your other users, according to how much they like the soon-to-be-banned user (which is reflected in his karma value).
   

Features

The features in bold were added in the second version. Features in bold italics were enriched in version 2 but existed in version 1 partially.

Admin/Mod Features

1. Now compatible with vBulletin 3.6.8 (link to e-steki Karma 1.0 for 3.5.x).
2. Customizable via a lot of settings.
3. Much better and more safe coding than the previous version. Most of the code has been rewritten from scratch.
4. Great power about who will use the system, via the permission settings.
5. Maintenance section
6. Easier installation than version 1 (Only one template edit (placement of a small comment), the others that version 1 had are now performed via template hooks).
7. Fully phrased (exept for the AdminCP Maintenance section)
8. Users with karma administrative priviledges can see for every user who they rated and by whom they have been rated and remove any vote they wish (useful for karma flooding that some users perform to be in the stats).
9. Most of the bugs in the previous version are now fixed with the maintenance section addition.
10. The bug with the date of the last vote in the profile is now fixed.
11. Displaying the karma in the postbit is now done with no queries.
12. Users with karma administrative priviledges can see the IP of the rater in each vote
13. A nice, usable and extensive html manual instead of an ugly readme.txt ;-)

End user Features

1. Users that have the Karma turned off don't count at all for the system. their votes don't count in anything, and the votes others gave them before they turned it off also don't count at all. Those users also, can't see anything that has to do with the karma system, anywhere. It's like the karma does not exist for them and they don't exist for the karma. However, if they switch it on again, nothing is lost and they may continue from the point where they deactivated it.
2. Rating is now performed by clicking on an image, no form submitting required (saves one click)
3. There is a complete statistics page, with 7 tables that display various statistics.
4. The Karma of each user displays in the postbit (unless he has opted out of the Karma, is not permitted to use it, or the admin has turned off this feature) and users can rate him from there
   
5. In each member's profile they can see if they have previously rated them and what rating they gave.
6. They can view all the votes they have given in a separate page and remove some of them if they wish (or go to the member's profile and change them). Votes that are not active at the time are marked with an admin-controlled formatting. He can also sort the votes by date or rating (default sorting is controlled by the admin). In the same page, users with karma administrative priviledges can also view who rated each user (fully, with sorting, formatting and vote removal).
7. Controversy feature, via an admin customizable algorithm. Controversy for each user is displayed in their profile, as well as in the stats and is color-coded as well as descriptive.
8. Each user can view the percentages of the votes he (or every user, if set so by the admin) has received in a nice graph by clicking in the controversy value.

Don't forget to Mark as INSTALLED!
Important: Supported for only a few days after each release.
Installation/Upgrade instructions included in the zip.

Changelog
2.2.1: Important bugfixes
2.2: I don't remember as apparently, I forgot to add it to the changelog initially
2.1: fixed bugs, cached templates and added the feature of a popup menu rating form in the postbit.
2.0: Initial release

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by nosherwan9

Hello,
Yes this is first time iam uninstalling but cannt.
I installed but its not work got DB error as i told you before so decided to uninstall ang again DB error as i told you .
Please help me thanks

Try to install the current product I uploaded.
Then probably you will be able to uninstall it (if you wish so)
If you still have issues, inform me.

[Khalid-B]

zip is updated so lemme try again, wait
Thanks

[Khalid-B]

hello,
I tried with again but still the same error , if you want i can give u my testid so you can check better.
Thanks

[Harley77]

Is there a way to have a pop-up box that will allow you to rate an individual? The reason I ask is I currently use zoints local and do not use the built-in members profile page. So being able to rate an individual outside the vb member profile page would be awesome.

[cynthetiq]

Originally Posted by Michelle

Try this product file instead... (although I'm not so sure it will be fixed, I found a small thing I missed that could be causing that)
Do you get any errors in karma.php?
Do you have any banned users?
Any karma banned users?
Which are the restricted usergroups? The 0 I saw in the query? Guests are usergroup 1 btw, not 0.

Acutally that is leftover from the other attempts that you suggested to other people.

I reset it back to:

Usergroups that are not permitted to use the Karma system
1,3,4

and will try the new XML

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by cynthetiq

Acutally that is leftover from the other attempts that you suggested to other people.

I reset it back to:

and will try the new XML

I didn't tell them to put the zero there but in the disallowed userids.

Harley77, it would be really easy to put the rating "form" in a popup, but not at all to display the extra info that shows in the profile(last rate date, votes, controversy and whether or not the user viewing it has rated and with what), as that would mean some queries PER POST, which would be too heavy for the server. The average rating is displayed without any extra query, and this is why its "cached" in the user table. But to display the other info, that would need queries.

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by nosherwan9

hello,
I tried with again but still the same error , if you want i can give u my testid so you can check better.
Thanks

Then go to the product's uninstall code and delete this line, since obviously, it already has been executed:

PHP Code:

$db->query_write("ALTER TABLE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user DROP karmatotal"); 


Then uninstall again.
If you get another error, delete the whole version 2.0 uninstall code and try again.

[Harley77]

Originally Posted by Michelle

Harley77, it would be really easy to put the rating "form" in a popup, but not at all to display the extra info that shows in the profile(last rate date, votes, controversy and whether or not the user viewing it has rated and with what), as that would mean some queries PER POST, which would be too heavy for the server. The average rating is displayed without any extra query, and this is why its "cached" in the user table. But to display the other info, that would need queries.

Well, for the detailed information, It could be on a seperate page. Just for example, "www.mywebsite.com/forums/karma.php?userid=123". This would keep any extra queries contained to a separate page. I know this may be beyond the scope of what your idea/goal of this mod is, but It's worth considering I think to make it a bit more flexible for a variety of situations.

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by Harley77

Well, for the detailed information, It could be on a seperate page. Just for example, "www.mywebsite.com/forums/karma.php?userid=123". This would keep any extra queries contained to a separate page. I know this may be beyond the scope of what your idea/goal of this mod is, but It's worth considering I think to make it a bit more flexible for a variety of situations.

A separate page is too much for so little information. A popup pehaps, now that I think of it, would be a nice idea
However you will have to make this, as its too much work (not hard, just too much) for something I don't need (I'm planning to add a popup menu rating in the postbit for the next version however).

[cynthetiq]

I just realized that I don't see the karma icon on my postbit. I only have one account on the system right now, just the admin.