What made whoever made this system come up with it? It seems entirely too complex, though I can see how it works fairly well with each time someone hits the rate button. The server or whatever could easily average out the ratings that someone got post for post, like, if I were to post a comment, and someone rated it excellent, someone else rated it good, and another rated it poor, that one post would have the karma of whatever the average would be (including your total average posting karma) and then your total average would be based off've the average of each of your individual posts. It seems like either way you do it, it works out the same way, but yeah, I'm just thinking out loud. I used to love math before calculus.
To Flea: It seems that Katie can post about 5 times, and if EVERYONE who's able to rate DOES rate her an Excellent on all 5 of those posts, it would more than likely drastically raise her total average karma. Each time she's rated, that rating gets put on the table. Now, with what Dana has said, it'll probably be more like she needs 500-600 Excellent (5.00) ratings alltogether. So if she made 5 posts just to be rated (with nude pictures or whatever so people have INCENTIVE to rate her) and everyone able to rate does so and gives her an Excellent, she'd probably move up at least .5 points, maybe even the full 1.0 that she needs.
Edit: yeah...uh, my bad, I meant Flea, I remembered DSD was Green and Nadenu was Red...didn't know you were Red too and I was in a hurry (btw, it's Red and Green in WoW's uh...face...thing?).
Edited, Fri Sep 23 16:31:08 2005 by Roller