Karma Hack v 1.0

Karma Hack v1.3a

This is our first vb Hack, so we are hopping to get lots of feedback. Enjoy this one.


Admin Function

- Set points for each
~ newthread
~ reply
~ points for thread owner if thread's view exceeded certain number.
~ extra points to user from admin/mod
~ extra points for thread owner if the thread's reply more than certain number.

- Admin/Moderator can also add/delete points to user who posts useful thread or nonsense.

- Admin can set auto ban feature to on or off. If this feature is set to on, users' karma points that
exceed the negative point admin set to, will be banned from posting or replying threads.

User Function

- User can comment on other people's post and if they agree that post, the user will get karma points
for that. If user disagree with what they post, their karma points will be deducted.
- User can earn karma points when they post new thread, replies, many people view their thread, many
people reply their thread.
- User can also earn karma points from administrator or moderator if they post useful thread.
- Their points wil be deducted if they post nonsense.

Sample Forum using this Karma Hack
CertifyExpress.com

I won't be able to answer all you technical questions as I am NOT the sole OR main programmer who write this hack. If you are facing technical problems you may either post here and I will try my best to help you together with vbulletin.org members OR you can also post your questions or problems at my forum for faster support, as my team are often online there 5 Days a week from Monday to Friday.

Karma 1.3a Release - March 15 2002

I highly recommended that you upgrade to 1.3a.

• Minor display changes.
• Bug Fixes.
• Security fixes.

For those who are using karma v1.3 just upload adis.php

Bug fixed
- Fix you are not login bug when you are actually login.


Next version
Will be release in April 2002. If you have any features to suggest or recommendation please post a NEW thread in my forum instead of vbulletin.org, so I can keep track of all the suggestions and as this thread is getting too long and I can't keep up with it.

[SaintDog]

Don't forget the images, I think, imo, images such as those that Overgrow was using better represents the karma, more than points do.

If you can, images based on the amount of karma you have would be nice (admin should be able to edit this in the admin cp such as that in the stars hack).

[certify]

Yes that is also in my todo list.

[intellected]

Excellent hack!

If karma exists in real life, you sure did gain a lot of it by creating (and developing) this hack.

Don't pay too much attention the the "misleading name" posts - I'm quite sure you will make this hack much better than overgrows ever was.

Kudos to you, sir!

[intellected]

Oh, and methinks that it would be a very good idea to be able to turn off this system in certain forums. For instance, I don't want people to give karma in the "Religious and Political discussion" forums.

[Nam]

Originally posted by xiphoid
...... erhm, sure, providing my email was required, but I had to go through all that, just to get a file .. now I end up being a member of something, indirect spam I call this...

For those of you who blame him for asking too many details, indirect spam blah blah... note that certify uses oscommerce out-of-the-box script, not his intention to ask too much details like that. Playing around with oscommerce script and you will know what I meant. Besides, eventhough it's annoying, but just put fake address and that's it.

certify, thanks for great hack, and disregard username John on your site since can download it here.

[certify]

Thanks, we will try to do whatever overgrows has done. What feature is in his karma hack anyway, besides the one the is in my to do list?

intellected, good idea for "turning off the karma for certain forums". But this had to be on the next next release v1.2.

[SaintDog]

I may have missed it but do you plan to include the ability for users to leave good/bad comments on users? That is a big part of the Karma hack, allowing users to leave comments on them.

SaintDog

[Freddie Bingham]

Did I mention that Overgrow donated his Karma to vb3?

[talon3dhq]

Um, no...you forgot to mention that...

[intellected]

Originally posted by freddie
Did I mention that Overgrow donated his Karma to vb3?

Wow. Overgrow wins!

Anyway, in that case, I have a (somewhat offtopic) suggestion for the future implementation of karma in vb3:

Option to replace thread rating with average karma
This is a very simple, but very useful, modification. Essentially, instead of using thread ratings, the script calculates the average karma per post in the thread, and displays that instead of rating.

A bit more smooth than using both karma and thread ratings at the same time.