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e-steki Karma version 2.2 · **Released**: 08-03-2007

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?

Less flames. Users vent their spleens on rating the one that got on their nerves with a -5 and that's it.
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".
Users try to have a good behaviour because they know that otherwise their karma will decrease.
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
Now compatible with vBulletin 3.6.8 (link to e-steki Karma 1.0 for 3.5.x).

Customizable via a lot of settings.

Much better and more safe coding than the previous version. Most of the code has been rewritten from scratch.

Great power about who will use the system, via the permission settings.

Maintenance section

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).

Fully phrased (exept for the AdminCP Maintenance section)

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).

Most of the bugs in the previous version are now fixed with the maintenance section addition.

The bug with the date of the last vote in the profile is now fixed.

Displaying the karma in the postbit is now done with no queries.

Users with karma administrative priviledges can see the IP of the rater in each vote

A nice, usable and extensive html manual instead of an ugly readme.txt ;-)

End user Features

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.

Rating is now performed by clicking on an image, no form submitting required (saves one click)

There is a complete statistics page, with 7 tables that display various statistics.

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

In each member's profile they can see if they have previously rated them and what rating they gave.

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).

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.

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 · #**162** 08-10-2007, 12:20 PM

Thanks for the donation cynthetiq, its my first donation ever, lol

Alfa1 · #**163** 08-10-2007, 11:11 PM

How about a function to see which member has received the most karma points in the last month? Either in Calendar month or as in last 30 days.
Another feature that would be nice is member that received most karma points in a certain (sub)forum. That would make it easier to ID potential moderator for a (sub)forum.

Lea Verou · #**164** 08-11-2007, 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Another feature that would be nice is member that received most karma points in a certain (sub)forum. That would make it easier to ID potential moderator for a (sub)forum.

What about the members that rated from the profile then?

Lea Verou · #**165** 08-11-2007, 07:31 AM

A bug was found that turned the karma off to most members, instead of only those that hadn't visited the site for X days (if that setting was set to on). You are strongly advised to re-download the zip and replace karma_cron.php.
If anyone was affected by this bug, ask me for information on how to turn it on for the other members.

dprundle · #**166** 08-12-2007, 07:36 AM

How do I turn it on for the other users? This happened to me.

Lea Verou · #**167** 08-12-2007, 08:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dprundle

How do I turn it on for the other users? This happened to me.

Run the following query:

Code:

UPDATE user SET karma=1 WHERE 1;

Add your table prefix in front of the word user in the query (for instance if your prefix is vb_ then it will be vb_user).

This will turn it on for ALL users. To turn it off for those who haven't visited for the amount of days specified, run the new cron.

Also, please don't PM me for support issues unless I told you so or there is a special reason for that.

RTFA · #**168** 08-12-2007, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michelle

You can help out on that by installing it on your test board and give me feedback on what happened

Installed...no DB errors, but I dont see anything in the postbit or edit options page.

I am sure it is because I dont have a hook installed in the right place. What exactly is a "hook" is that like a DB querry? And in order for this to work which ones do I need and EXACTLY where should I put them? Please list?

Lea Verou · #**169** 08-12-2007, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RTFA

Installed...no DB errors, but I dont see anything in the postbit or edit options page.

I am sure it is because I dont have a hook installed in the right place. What exactly is a "hook" is that like a DB querry? And in order for this to work which ones do I need and EXACTLY where should I put them? Please list?

Ensure that "$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts]" is in your postbit template.
If it is, provide me a screenshot of your main karma settings.

RTFA · #**170** 08-12-2007, 10:15 PM

I have that hook in my postbit...not anywhere else though. I found the option in the User Control panel.

Shot at 2007-08-12

This is my Postbit template

Code:

$template_hook[postbit_start]
$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts]
<table class="tborder" id="post$post[postid]" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
	<td class="thead" $post[scrolltothis]>
		<div class="normal" style="float:$stylevar[right]">
			&nbsp;
			<if condition="$show['postcount']">#<a href="showpost.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]&amp;postcount=$post[postcount]" target="new" rel="nofollow" id="postcount$post[postid]" name="$post[postcount]"><strong>$post[postcount]</strong></a> &nbsp;</if>
			<if condition="$show['reputationlink']">
				<span id="reputationmenu_$post[postid]"><a href="reputation.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]" rel="nofollow" id="reputation_$post[postid]"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/reputation.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[add_to_xs_reputation]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></span>
				<if condition="$show['popups']"><script type="text/javascript"> vbrep_register("$post[postid]")</script></if>&nbsp;
			</if>

			<if condition="$show['infractionlink']"><a href="infraction.php?$session[sessionurl]do=report&amp;p=$post[postid]" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/infraction.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[add_infraction_for_x]</phrase>" border="0" /></a> &nbsp;</if>
			<if condition="$show['reportlink']"><a href="report.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/report.gif" alt="$vbphrase[report_bad_post]" border="0" /></a> &nbsp;</if>
			$post[iplogged]
			<if condition="$show['inlinemod']">
			<input type="checkbox" name="plist[$postid]" id="plist_$postid" style="vertical-align:middle; padding:0px; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px" value="$post[checkbox_value]" />
			</if>
		</div>

		
		<div class="normal">
			<!-- status icon and date -->
			<a name="post$post[postid]"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/post_$post[statusicon].gif" alt="$post[statustitle]" border="0" /></a>
			<if condition="!$show['announcement']">
				$post[postdate]<if condition="!$show['detailedtime']">, $post[posttime]</if>
			<else />
				<phrase 1="$post[startdate]" 2="$post[enddate]">$vbphrase[x_until_y]</phrase>
			</if>
			$post[firstnewinsert]
			<!-- / status icon and date -->
		</div>
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="alt2" style="padding:0px">
		<!-- user info -->
		<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellpadding]" border="0" width="100%">
		<tr>
			<if condition="$show['avatar']"><td class="alt2"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[avatarurl]" $post[avwidth] $post[avheight] alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></td></if>
			<td nowrap="nowrap">
			
				<div id="postmenu_$post[postid]">
					<if condition="$show['profile']">
					<a class="bigusername" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[musername]</a>
					$post[onlinestatus]
					<script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("postmenu_$post[postid]", true); </script>
					<else />
					$post[musername]
					</if>
				</div>
				
				<if condition="$post['usertitle']"><div class="smallfont">$post[usertitle]</div></if>
				<if condition="$post['rank']"><div class="smallfont">$post[rank]</div></if>
				$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_left]
				
			</td>
			<td width="100%">&nbsp;</td>
			<td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">
				
				<div class="smallfont">
					<if condition="$post['joindate']"><div>$vbphrase[join_date]: $post[joindate]</div></if>
					<if condition="$post['field2']"><div>$vbphrase[location_perm]: $post[field2]</div></if>
					<if condition="$post['age']"><div>$vbphrase[age]: $post[age]</div></if>
					<div>
						$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]
					</div>
<if condition="$show_p_tdob">
					<div>
						$vbphrase[tdob_time_on_board]: <if condition="$post['timeonboard'] >= 1"><if condition="$show['timespentyears']">$timeboardspent[year] <if condition="$timeboardspent[year] == 1">$vbphrase[year]<else />$vbphrase[years]</if>, </if><if condition="$show['timespentmonths']">$timeboardspent[month] <if condition="$timeboardspent[month] == 1">$vbphrase[month]<else />$vbphrase[months]</if>, </if><if condition="$show['timespentweeks']">$timeboardspent[week] <if condition="$timeboardspent[week] == 1">$vbphrase[week]<else />$vbphrase[weeks]</if>, </if><if condition="$show['timespentdays']">$timeboardspent[day] <if condition="$timeboardspent[day] == 1">$vbphrase[day]<else />$vbphrase[days]</if> $vbphrase[tdob_and] </if>$timeboardspent[hour]:<if condition="$timeboardspent[min]<10">0$timeboardspent[min]<else />$timeboardspent[min]</if>:<if condition="$timeboardspent[sec]<10">0$timeboardspent[sec]<else />$timeboardspent[sec]</if> $vbphrase[hours]<else />$vbphrase[tdob_nodata]</if>
					</div>
				</if>
<!-- START POSTING FREQUENCY MOD -->
<div>Posting Frequency
	<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
	<tr onmouseover="this.title='$post[posts] posts ($post[postsperday] posts per day)'">
	<td><img border="0" src="images/polls/bar-l.gif" width="4" height="17"></td>
	<td width="100" background="images/polls/bar-bk.gif"><img border="0" src="images/polls/bar.gif" width="$post[frequency]" height="17"></td>
	<td><img border="0" src="images/polls/bar-r.gif" width="4" height="17"></td>
	</tr>
	</table>
</div>
<!-- END POSTING FREQUENCY MOD -->

					<if condition="$show['infraction']"><div>$vbphrase[infractions]: $post[warnings]/$post[infractions] ($post[ipoints])</div></if>
					<if condition="$show['reputation']"><if condition="$show['reppower']">$vbphrase[reppower]: <span id="reppower_$post[postid]_$post[userid]">$post[reppower]</span> </if><div><span id="repdisplay_$post[postid]_$post[userid]">$post[reputationdisplay]</span></div></if>
					$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_right]
					<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]</div>
				</div>
				
			</td>
		</tr>
		</table>
		<!-- / user info -->
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="alt1" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
	<!-- message, attachments, sig -->
	
		$template_hook[postbit_messagearea_start]
		
		<if condition="$show['messageicon'] OR $post['title']">
			<!-- icon and title -->
			<div class="smallfont">
				<if condition="$show['messageicon']"><img class="inlineimg" src="$post[iconpath]" alt="$post[icontitle]" border="0" /></if>
				<if condition="$post['title']"><strong>$post[title]</strong></if>
			</div>
			<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
			<!-- / icon and title -->
		</if>
		
		<!-- message -->
		<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>
		<!-- / message -->
	
		<if condition="$show['attachments']">
		<!-- attachments -->
			<div style="padding:$stylevar[cellpadding]px">
			
			<if condition="$show['thumbnailattachment']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[attached_thumbnails]</legend>
					<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
					$post[thumbnailattachments]
					</div>
				</fieldset>
			</if>
		
			<if condition="$show['imageattachment']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[attached_images]</legend>
					<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
					$post[imageattachments]
					</div>
				</fieldset>
			</if>
			
			<if condition="$show['imageattachmentlink']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[attached_images]</legend>
					<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
					$post[imageattachmentlinks]
					</table>
					</fieldset>
			</if>
			
			<if condition="$show['otherattachment']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[attached_files]</legend>
					<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
					$post[otherattachments]
					</table>
				</fieldset>
			</if>
			
			<if condition="$show['moderatedattachment']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[attachments_pending_approval]</legend>
					<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
					$post[moderatedattachments]
					</table>
				</fieldset>		
			</if>
			
			</div>
		<!-- / attachments -->
		</if>
		
		$template_hook[postbit_signature_start]
		
		<if condition="$post['signature']">
		<!-- sig -->
			<div>
				__________________<br />
				$post[signature]
			</div>
		<!-- / sig -->
		</if>
		
		$template_hook[postbit_signature_end]
		
		<if condition="$show['postedited']">
		<!-- edit note -->
			<div class="smallfont">			<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
				<em>
				<phrase 1="$post[edit_username]" 2="$post[edit_date]" 3="$post[edit_time]">$vbphrase[last_edited_by_x_on_y_at_z]</phrase>.
				<if condition="$post['edit_reason']">$vbphrase[reason]: $post[edit_reason]</if>
				</em>
			</div>
		<!-- / edit note -->
		</if>
	
		<div style="margin-top: 10px" align="$stylevar[right]">
			<!-- controls -->
			<if condition="$post['editlink']">
				<img style="display: none" id="progress_$postid" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/progress.gif" alt="$vbphrase[loading_editor_please_wait]" />
				<a href="$post[editlink]" name="vB::QuickEdit::$post[postid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/edit.gif" alt="$vbphrase[edit_delete_message]" border="0" /></a>
			</if>
			<if condition="$post['forwardlink']">
				<a href="$post[forwardlink]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/forward.gif" alt="$vbphrase[forward_message]" border="0" /></a>
			</if>
			<if condition="$post['replylink']">
				<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/<if condition="$post['forwardlink']">reply_small<else />quote</if>.gif" alt="$vbphrase[reply_with_quote]" border="0" /></a>
			</if>
			<if condition="$show['multiquote_post']">
				<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/multiquote_<if condition="$show['multiquote_selected']">on<else />off</if>.gif" alt="$vbphrase[multi_quote_this_message]" border="0" id="mq_$post[postid]" /></a>
			</if>
			<if condition="$show['quickreply'] AND !$show['threadedmode']">
				<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" id="qr_$post[postid]" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/quickreply.gif" alt="$vbphrase[quick_reply_to_this_message]" border="0" /></a>
			</if>
			<if condition="$show['moderated']">
				<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/moderated.gif" alt="$vbphrase[moderated_post]" border="0" />
			</if>
			<if condition="$show['deletedpost']">
				<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/trashcan.gif" alt="$vbphrase[deleted_post]" border="0" />
			</if>
			<if condition="$show['redcard']">
				<a href="infraction.php?$session[sessionurl]do=view&amp;p=$post[postid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/redcard.gif" alt="$vbphrase[received_infraction]" border="0" /></a>
			<else />
				<if condition="$show['yellowcard']">
					<a href="infraction.php?$session[sessionurl]do=view&amp;p=$post[postid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/yellowcard.gif" alt="$vbphrase[received_warning]" border="0" /></a>
				</if>
			</if>
			$template_hook[postbit_controls]
			<!-- / controls -->
		</div>
		
	<!-- message, attachments, sig -->
	
	</td>
</tr>
</table>
$template_hook[postbit_end]

<!-- post $post[postid] popup menu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="postmenu_$post[postid]_menu" style="display:none;">
	<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	<tr>
		<td class="thead">$post[username]</td>
	</tr>
	<if condition="$show['profile']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$vbphrase[view_public_profile]</a></td></tr>
	</if>
	<if condition="$show['pmlink']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newpm&amp;u=$post[userid]" rel="nofollow"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[send_private_message_to_x]</phrase></a></td></tr>
	</if>
	<if condition="$show['emaillink']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="sendmessage.php?$session[sessionurl]do=mailmember&amp;u=$post[userid]" rel="nofollow"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[send_email_to_x]</phrase></a></td></tr>
	</if>
	<if condition="$show['homepage']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$post[homepage]"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[visit_xs_homepage]</phrase></a></td></tr>
	</if>
	<if condition="$show['search']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=finduser&amp;u=$post[userid]" rel="nofollow"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[find_all_posts_by_x]</phrase></a></td></tr>
	</if>
	<if condition="$post['userid'] AND $show['member']">
	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=addlist&amp;userlist=buddy&amp;u=$post[userid]"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[add_x_to_buddy_list]</phrase></a></td></tr>
	</if>
	$template_hook[postbit_user_popup]
	</table>
</div>
<!-- / post $post[postid] popup menu -->

EnIgMa1234 · #**171** 08-12-2007, 10:54 PM

karmatest.php give a db error

Invalid SQL:

SELECT userrating.voteid as voteid, userrating.userid as userid, userrating.raterid as raterid, userrating.ratername as ratername, userrating.rating as rating, userrating.active as active, userrating.dateline as dateline, userrating.ipaddress as ipaddress
FROM vb_userrating AS userrating
INNER JOIN vb_user AS user ON ( userrating.raterid = user.userid
AND user.karma =1)
WHERE userrating.userid = AND user.karma = 1 AND user.usergroupid NOT
IN (1,3,4) AND ((1186962797-user.lastactivity)/86400<=30)
ORDER BY userrating.rating DESC;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND user.karma = 1 AND user.usergroupid NOT
IN (1,3,4) AND ((1186962797-user' at line 5
Error Number : 1064

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