Tired of waiting: KARMA hack finished

Tired of waiting for 2.0? Me too. I dunno if I'm even gonna upgrade, way too much work for how much benefit?

Sooooo I wrote my own karma hack this evening. For version 1.whatever. You can see it in action:

http://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthr...threadid=20338

It is based on w.luke's implementation; I just added the "alert moderator" but I doubt I will add post comments.

It does have interesting ways of determining karmic power-- how many karma points a user awards per click.. it's based on a formula that uses date joined, posts, and karma level.. so older and more respected users will give 5 or 8 points per click while new members will only give 1.

Otherwise I believe the functionality is the same as Sitepoint's. It does not add any overhead or extra queries in showthread. Eventually I will integrate it with the Killfile hack so that people can Killfile any user with a Karma below a level they set.

If there is still interest in something like this for the 1.x VB, let me know....


OG

[Edited by Overgrow on 01-17-2001 at 04:44 AM]

Oh yea, It uses VB cookies to determine who you are... so if you're not registered you won't even see the Karma icon (lower right of each post).

It could be me man, but I'm not logged into your forum but I still see the karma ratings. Maybe since I already have the cookies from another vB?

Would love to use this on my forum when you get everything done on it. Thanks for your time put into the hack I think this could be something very cool from my users to play with

I also like the report to admin feature. That would save me alot of time. Can this report to Board Mod's as well as Admins? I have board mods than run diffrent sections so it would be nice to be able to send it to the right mod. Just a few things to think about

Change is Coming...
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Yo this is sweet....can I get it?

I'm still using 1.13 cause of all the hacks and customizations I have...it rocks...I love oyur hack...please share.

If you're not logged in you will still see everyone's karmic ratings-- but you won't see the little karma icon in the lower right of each post that allows you to adjust it.

OK, let me finish the bug hunt and package it up. I did not write it intending to release, so I'm not sure how portable I made everything.. I think it is pretty good though, one karma.php file and then a few mods in showthread and postbit and you're done.

I did finish the alert mod function. I have no idea how Sitepoint's works, but the way mine works is that it just sets a flag in the karma table on that postID. So it's easy to run a query-- show all posts in the karma table that have the alert flag on. Then the mods can scroll through the alerted list and see what's up.. there is no functionality to route a message anywhere. If you tell me how you think it should work, I might figure something out. Right now I just have the mods run "alertmod.php" which will bring up all of the alerted threads with a function to turn all alerts off after they have been viewed.

Give me a day or two to make sure I have it in a complete tested form before releasing. The users really like it so far!

Oh yea, it does not use templates at this time for the karma popup box so you'll have to edit the code to make it look better.. the version I release will be a simplified layout without all my tables and graphics in the karma popup.

ya where can we get this?>

You can get it... here
...tomorrow
...or at least by this weekend

I am still adding things.. I just wrote it yesterday evening but not much to fix thankfully!

I just added another safeguard to prevent smear campaigns. Already I had users going for the throat.. searching out one person's posts and giving them all 10 shots of negative karma that they could.

I added another field so it records the last 5 people you gave karma to. You must now spread your love around.. you cannot repeatedly give karma to the same person (if they are in that list)....

so effectively with 10 possible karma awards per 24 hours, you could only hit the same person twice with negative karma. And the people doing these smear campaigns probably have low karma themselves meaning their smear campaigns will have little effect!

ahh what a nice balanced feeling....

Are you by chance going to allow comments?

So you could leave

"This post was completely false, they just made it up."

Like display on profile or another page, the top 10 good things and bad things.

This way you could see that Tom always is full of shit?

Hmmm.. I'm still not sure about the comment system. While it might be interesting to look in someone's profile and see the last few comments people have made about their posts I really don't think it would be used that much.

At least on my boards, if someone wants to "leave a comment" saying your post was wrong, they'll just reply and leave it right there for everyone to see.

Since Sitepoint's comments weren't functional (I don't think?) I wasn't sure what exactly they were supposed to do. Seemed kind of frivolous and unnecessary when we are working with a database-comment system already. Can you point out any advantages or uses of it that I might be overlooking? Removing the comment box from the karma pop up really simplified the look and apparent learning curve.

Tom would have 5 glowing red karmasticks and everyone would know that he is full of the shit