1
Announcements [ANN] / Re: 🛡️ MixTum.io - Premium Bitcoin Mixer | Launched in 2018
« on: Today at 08:20:43 PM »Karma is basically worthless here - it is not as large as in Bitcointalk, it won't help you get into any campaigns, and nobody really cares much about it in general. I don't know why someone would waste their time farming karma on this forum.
I don't agree that karma is worthless in this forum. Another thing is that managers don't consider a user's Karma amount (at the moment) to be relevant for signature campaigns, but that can change at any time. The administrator said that a new rule will be implemented on the forum, where users must have a certain amount of Karma in order to reach the next rank. When that new rule is implemented, there may come a time when managers believe that Karma is relevant to accepting users in a signature campaign. There is still no exact date to know when the new rule will be implemented.
OK, I wasn't aware of that. However, what is going to stop people from simply adding +1 karma to each of a particular user's posts, as a form of merit abuse? I believe that each post can only get one karma, so that's a good start. However, I don't think it would be enough to stop a determined merit abuser (although I don't know if just any account can send karma or not).
To start, users must be at least senior members and can only give +1 every 10 hours. If a user receives a lot of karma without having much activity, or if a user receives a lot of karma with a lot of activity but their posts are LQP, the administrator will soon notice it in the logs, so it wouldn't cost much to put the counters back as they were and penalize users who did so. Also, the administrator is working on several things related to karma to have more control. No system is perfect and everything can be improved, but it is difficult and time-consuming.
As for your idea that each post can only receive 1 karma from the same user, it doesn't seem like a bad idea to me. If you want, you can propose it in the suggestions subforum.