RPZip wrote:
Random thought on the Karma system; why not just have an exponential decay on the effect your individual ratings have on that person's overall Karma?
For example; a poster, who we'll term "*******" for this discussion, posts something really stupid on the Everquest forums. Posters X and Y rate down that individual post, which drops his Karma a decent amount but not amazingly so, given his 500-post count, some of which has actually been fairly helpful.
However, Poster Z decides that he really, really doesn't like *******. He goes through the forums and finds 300 of *******'s posts and rates them all down. Every time he gives ******* another rating, his individual impact on *******'s Karma goes down, and eventually the effect is almost completely negligable.
Obviously the formula can be pretty much anything you want it to be (and might need a bit of fine-tuning), but the idea is sound, no?
That might work, as long as the effect returns to normal over time.
Also, would their be anything wrong with leaving an anonymous comment every time you rate a post down? The only think I can think of is that the server would slow down.