I ain't got no karma. After all these years, still no karma.

I whine and pout.

Zubaz...10142 Karma. Last week you were in the 100s.
You can share the secret with me, I promise not to tell anyone else...how did you hack the system?  
























(before anyone flames me, the above is a joke. Zubaz is deserving of as much good karma as possible as he is one of the most helpful person on these boards)

Quoting the actual post...

You were asking for karma, you weren't asking how to get it. So even though I agree with unclerob in that there's nothing wrong with asking questions about the system, he wasn't addressing the content of the actual post. Please don't ask for karma in the future, regardless of the intent.

Zu has a ton of 'bad' karma points you can have 

No no no, not poking at you...with you...hopefully.

there's always popcorn if you look around...

I care because; 1. I wrote the system. 2. I'm the primary developer on the forums. 3. I'm a Stardock Employee and I care about the community(ies) we run.

This speaks fairly loudly to the issue of users expecting things. Karma is intended to be handed out by other users who feel its warranted. Users must view your participation and choose to award you Karma if they feel it's appropriate. It's not up to you (or even me, if I am doing the posting/replying) to decide whether you (or again, I if in context) deserve or have earned it. I don't expect anyone to give me any Karma points for this reply. Though a user may choose to. The basic point is that it's not your call as to wether or not you've earned it, it's up to the community and individual user.

Take a step back for a minute and examine what has been posted in this thread. No one is being mean to you, giving you a negative attitude, scolding you or speaking to you with ill intent. Least of all myself. The worst possible thing you can do on the internet is apply tone to text. It's always a good idea to ask for an explanation of intent or an elaboration on a point if you feel that you may not understand its context or reasoning.

This is the last that I'm going to reply on this post. Again on behalf of everyone replying in this post, I apologize if you feel upset by the reaction, singled out in any way or insulted. Please understand that was not the intent. I feel I've explained myself fairly well and explained that posting asking people/the community to give you Karma is not something we want to see and that it defeats the meaning of it.

Not?

 

Darn! ....

Andrew I do believe there is a rule already in place.

Something that could be of a help would be the way it is posted. I would hate to say it - but things may become a moderator issue. Where each point has to be approved.
Also some posting for guidelines with rules and such as do's and don'ts may help.

Just some thoughts for the issue here.


SGT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqeTpbV9nt0

I remember dancing with my sister to that song whne it played on the Solid Gold TV show.      Back then . . it was cool.

That would remove all the "fun" from it.