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

[NolF]

One of my users (the official bugdetector now) has found a "problem"

http://<domain>/karma.php?do=processvote&u=<userid>&rating=5

This link gives +5  to [B] <user> 

The problem is:
With this pic (for example) one can say (specially in signatures):
Click here for X reason, maybe some "cool video" or who knows what, but on reality you are giving Karma to some person



With the previous you achieve just the opposite.

"Click here to join the club, or some cool post, while in reality ppl are giving -5 karmas...



With this simple use, you can give or take karma from other people using "inconcent" p?ople to do the biding, meaning people who don't care about user X will be giving either good or bad karma... Also can be used to lift your own karma etc....

(within code randoms can't read it ^^)
Is going to be hard to fix this one sorry

[Majava]

Hi,

i have a user that i want participating in the karma system, but somehow he has managed to set his account so that he doesnt, how can i force his account to participate in the karma system?

I went and removed the karma section from the user profile, but he still has managed to make him self not participate. please help.

Thanks

Edit* I found out that if the user sets himself to invisble, the karma system doesnt show for that user, and if and admin then sets the user back to visible, the karam system still doesnt show.

[Majava]

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[nyunyu]

can this add on be used in 3.5.4? or i only can install beta version for 3.5.4??
by the way, it is really nice to have this add on.

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by nyunyu

can this add on be used in 3.5.4? or i only can install beta version for 3.5.4??
by the way, it is really nice to have this add on.

You can try. Most of the automatic template edits probably wont work though, you will have to do most of them yourself.

Originally Posted by Majava

Hi,

i have a user that i want participating in the karma system, but somehow he has managed to set his account so that he doesnt, how can i force his account to participate in the karma system?

I went and removed the karma section from the user profile, but he still has managed to make him self not participate. please help.

Thanks

Edit* I found out that if the user sets himself to invisble, the karma system doesnt show for that user, and if and admin then sets the user back to visible, the karam system still doesnt show.

I didn't understand, sorry.

[Lea Verou]

Version 2.2.1 - bugfixes

[Snake]

Wow! I've always been waiting for something like this. How come I didn't even notice this mod? I remember having this feature on my IPB forum back in the old days.

[Ski-Whiz]

Is anyone having issues with the karma system being disabled for members??

I keep having to enable members via MySQL..

I'm running that latest version. I hoped 2.2.1 would fix it..

Also, I'm still having issues with it showing in the postbit. I have the hook in the right spot. Still nothing.

Is there a way to not use a hook? But maybe a way where we can use a variable like say "$karma"??

It's a great hack and my members love it.. I just have the two issues, and I can't figure them out..

[lazserus]

OK, I just don't understand how the Controversy works. The system explanation is poorly described and my members (including myself) are inquiring about what it means. Every time I think I have a handle on how controversy works, I find that it works completely different from my theory.

So could someone explain it simply? If not, I'm uninstalling this mod and going back to rep.

[Jesus_Monkey]

Yeah this mod has become terrible...members can't use it, it doesn't even work with the latest version of vBulletin, it says it's not supported as well. So, yeah I'm uninstalling it

try this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ght=reputation
it looks nicer, plus it's not like chinese or anything