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

[Wolf Link]

Once I add the xml, I get an error.

What's wrong?

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by dellow

hello,

when user post his rate in the postbit, he should forwarded to same page.
users will not like to vote becuse thay need to go back to the thread that thay was reading.

am i right ?

You are right, its something I want as well. However, I haven't found a way to do that so far.

Originally Posted by dellow

hello,

i think if there is option in admincp to allow only member with number of post more than x

thank you

You can create a usergroup that members will automatically join after X posts (via the user promotions system that is built in vB) and then allow only this usergroup to participate This is what I have done in my forums

Originally Posted by Wolf Link

Once I add the xml, I get an error.

What's wrong?

What is the error?

Originally Posted by XtAzY

The other auto template edits works fine. I dont have the modifyoptions customized either. It doesnt work on the original vb default skin either. Oh im using PHP5 in case your wondering.

Do you have $template_hook[usercp_options_other] in your modifyoptions template?

[dellow]

i just install the Karma in my production forum, every thing seems good, but after about 10 hours i find about 85% of members are not participate Karma.
i am using latest version and this is the cron file that i am use:
i changed the value 0 to be 1 and return back all members to Karma, but i think still there is a problem ethir with me or woth code.

PHP Code:

<?php

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'karma_cron');

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
//require_once('./global.php');

// #######################################################################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// #######################################################################


//exclude from the karma, users that are inactive, if such a thing has been set
if (!is_object($vbulletin->db))
{
    exit;
}
if($vbulletin->options['karma_lastactivity'])
{
    $vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE `" . TABLE_PREFIX . "user` SET `karma` = 0 WHERE((" . TIMENOW . "-lastactivity)/(24*3600)>" . $vbulletin->options['karma_lastactivity'] . ")");
}

?>

[dellow]

Originally Posted by Michelle

You are right, its something I want as well. However, I haven't found a way to do that so far.

what about AJAX ?

[dellow]

Michelle ,

i am sorry for too many post here, but how can add top five rated members in the bottum of home page?

[Lea Verou]

1. How many days have you set in the setting "Ignore users that haven't visited for X days"?
2. AJAX would be perfect but I haven't learned AJAX good enough yet. If I ever understand AJAX, its one of my plans to make the vote & the remove vote with AJAX
3. This needs a new plugin, if you have a knowledge of php, take a look at karma.php in the stats section and fit it to your needs. Sorry, I can't make it as I'm too busy at the moment with another hack I'm making (I have to make a lot this month for an update of my board that I'm planning) and also I don't need it (my members are too concerned with their karma already, I don't want it to get worse )

[dellow]

Originally Posted by Michelle

1. How many days have you set in the setting "Ignore users that haven't visited for X days"?

it was 100 days.

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by dellow

it was 100 days.

Are you sure that these users have visited your forum for the last 100 days?

[dellow]

ohh..

no not sure..

i think thay did not visit the forum in last 100 days.

i just know that if user did not visit the forum for las x days he will be not participate Karma.
i was think his votes only will not be counted.

i think the user should not removed from participate Karma, but should only delete his votes.

Regards,

[Wolf Link]

<a href="http://www.shadowshr.com/forums/member.php?find=lastposter&f=3" target="_blank">http://www.shadowshr.com/forums/memb...lastposter&f=3</a>

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