e-steki Karma BETA

New version for 3.6, with a lot more features, bugfixes and better coding!!

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Beware that this is still a BETA. This means, it may have bugs. If you want to help with the beta-testing phase, please mention what happened with this hack (if it works or not, if you encountered any bugs, if everything is ok etc) as detailed as possible.

I used quite a lot code from User Rating 1.0 by tnguy3n for this modification. Then I changed it a lot to fit my needs, and I think it's so changed that it could be released as a separate modification. I also got his permission for this

What does e-steki Karma have that User Rating 1.0 doesn't?
1. When a user votes someone for a second (or third, fourth etc) time, the new vote replaces the old instead of being added. I felt it was more fair this way.
2. There is a complete statistics page, with 7 tables that display various statistics
3. Ratings are from -5 to 5 instead of 1-10 and they are represented by images
4. The Karma of each user displays in the postbit (unless he has it turned off)
5. 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.
6. Since there are no comments, there is no possibility that the user gets a "you didn't complete all fields" error. In fact, even the phrase for it is removed.
7. The table is not placed where the hack author wants (above the footer in UR1) but where YOU want it (by inserting a small comment in the place that you want it in MEMBERINFO). This, however, means one more template change is involved.
8. There is no field that you should add via the userfield manager. This caused bugs in UR1 as you had to run a query to set all the checkboxes to 1 and new registrants had their karma turned off by default.
9. IP in who rated
10. Although they can't see who voted, they can see if they have rated a user and with what (see screenshot).


Why somebody may prefer User Rating 1.0 over e-steki Karma?
I have removed some of the user rating 1.0 features that I didn't need. Some of you may need them though, so pay a visit to User Rating's thread as well.
1. There are no comments in this hack. Nowhere. I've removed anything that has to do with comments.
2. There is no "anonymous voting". In my site, only admins see who has voted, so it's useless to us.
3. No template changes in UR1.
4. A little bit less queries and plugins (since there are less abilites in certain things) in UR1.
5. The "can rate himself" is off by default.
6. Only admins can see who voted. This is planned to be a usergroup permission in the future though.

Misc features
1. WOL location for stats
2. Fully phrased
3. Usergroup permissions

Why is it a beta?
1. Because the end product is the biggest modification I've worked on and there is a high chance I missed something
2. The permission for "Can view Stats" is not working sometimes.
3. I'm not sure how if the install code is going to give an error on an existing installation of e-steki Karma or UR1.

Planned features
1. Of course, bugfixes
2. Usergroup permission for who can see who voted. (currently only admins can see that.)
3. The stats line in memberinfo wont appear if the user does not have permission to view the stats.
4. Ignore specific usergroups from the karma (such as banned)
5. Suggest your own, as long as they keep the system as fair as possible. My main concern is that the system is fair and democratic, and this is why I made most of the changes.

Don't forget to click INSTALL if you use this or you will be damned to hell

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by Michelle

In the postbit and memberinfo:
With conditionals that check $averating. But you will lose accuracy, as they will only show whole numbers.
You can put the actual rating as the alt text though
Also you can make half images, but I don't want to think about how complicated those conditionals will be :ermm:

lol ok i guess im stuck to be using the numbers til i figure it out

thanks!

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

lol ok i guess im stuck to be using the numbers til i figure it out

thanks!

I also wanted to use images there, but after some thought I decided it would make the postbit too crowded.

[MissKalunji]

i dont use the postbit only the memberinfo...

[ThePimp]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

rofl...10 most HATED users?

reckon thats the wrong choice of phrase for an install on a board which tries to promote user participation.

hack itself looks really promising apart from that tho.

Ever hear of negative marketing? You should look into it.

[Lea Verou]

Exactly ThePimp! Also, after a while, those users will be mostly trolls I think, so who cares about their participation? This is exactly why I made this, to point out the trolls without doing anything on my behalf. It hasn't worked this way so far, as there are good members there too (the trolls that participate are there also however) but I think after more votes, the things will settle and only really bad members will be there.

Btw, everyone that has those foreach errors, download the new zip file, and replace karma_stats.php with the new one.

[Lea Verou]

Btw in the next version it will be an option whether to show the karma on postbit or not

[Harley77]

Tried the update, rendered a blank page with an unxexpected foreach in line 60. Looking at the code, I removed the @ symbol (as foreach doesn't support that form of error suppression http://us3.php.net/foreach) and at least it now displays something. Maby use some conditionals?

[Harley77]

Also, Is it intentional that you can have someone with a 4+ rating (with none being a negative) show up in the top 10 Favored AND Hated? Seems to me that it would be more logical that only those who at least recieved a negative rating would show up in the hated list.

[hiiped]

When I CHANGE the usergroup permission to ALL YES

the last 2 entries does NOT SAVE ( see attachment ) , keeps reverting to NO

Anyone else having this problem ?



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[mark1491]

Originally Posted by hiiped

When I CHANGE the usergroup permission to ALL YES

the last 2 entries does NOT SAVE ( see attachment ) , keeps reverting to NO

Anyone else having this problem ?



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I get the same problem, but i don't think that it really stays at no, it just show it that way.