I get the feeling even asking this will make me look like an idiot, but hey all I can wound is my pride...
...And I have none.
So! Exactly how does karma work? I was under the original impression that it was like a popularity index, showing how well-favored you were among the forum. Then I saw people handing out smites like candy...
I realize the final answer will most likely be "Karma only matters if you care about it", but can someone please kindly explain to the poor, confused Humaseeri what it's good for?
Karma only matters if you care about it.
:P
Seriously, though, it doesn't do anything, and it means nothing.
That's rather what I thought, but I wasn't 100% sure. I prefer to ask before stepping on toes and such.
...Not that it stops me from stepping on toes and such; I'm just more aware of the possible consequences. *grins*
Allegedly it means nothing... but I take it way too seriously. Because it's what I do.
*hands out applauses*
If this were a popularity contest then... Some people need more applause :D
Some aren't interested in applause, and some have been, uh, "applauded" by the mods. Who don't have to wait 15 minutes between clicks.
I rarely pay attention to Karma, and if I dom it's just a "huh.... okay then, move on"
Though I will occaisionally applaud people if I like them. because I'm strange like that.
I usually forget though.
I've been handing out applause to helpful or friendly folks on here myself, just to show my thanks. I can't see me handing out any smites, though, unless asked to.
For no good reason I display a picture.
(http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n192/jimdarkwolf/pancakes.gif)
I figure Creativity would get a kick out of this.
Karma. >:O
*hands out another round of applause*
Hey, who keeps smiting Haz? It's a struggle to just keep his levels even!
Quote from: DigitalMan on October 17, 2006, 09:04:12 PM
*hands out another round of applause*
Hey, who keeps smiting Haz? It's a struggle to just keep his levels even!
Oh, fine, I'll fix it.
Oops, slipped. :<
:dface You bass turd!
Applause/smite is something I often forget exists until someone makes a comment about it. Considering the mods/admins use it mostly to bap eachother with smites...it is definately not a judge of character for the people on the forum. (If anyone was actually seriously bad, they'd get a lecture or a warning from the admins)
Sometimes when the mood strikes me I'll go off into am applaus or smite-fest at random people. But those are primarily just me being silly and not an act of actual favour/aggression.
*puts on a sandwich board that reads "Randomly choose me for an applause-fest, Amber!"*
*hands out more applause*
*notices Haz's levels*
I just can't win :< Well technically I guess it means he just can't win... *whistles innocently*
My karma moves... very... slowly...
Of course, my posts are lame and not really karma worthy.
I did give Darkmoon his 2000th smite though.
His karma had been sitting at -1999 for a day or so, so I just gently nudged it over.
I like to just randomly smite people for a few hundred at a time... tis nice...
:veryevil
I applause people when they do something good...
and I smite them hard when they annoy me. It's cathartic. >)
:ipod
I have never smited anyone, and I never intend to.
*hands out more applause, thereby evening out Eibbor's karma* Another victory for all that is good, righteous, and/or cheese-flavored!
Hey, even without a 15-minute wait, wouldn't a hundred or more smites take a rather long time?
I think mods have uber-smiting powers. They can smite with thousands of points at a time. Remember: mod and God differ only by a single letter. Fear the mods, and tremble in their presence.
Also, applaud teh moogle! :moogle
Yes, but I don't think anyone's every heard of a Goderator. :|
but mods suck. admins are the ones you have to fear.
Indeed...
(http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9784/admin4hnqs8.gif)
Quote from: ×HaZ×MaT× on October 18, 2006, 02:47:36 AM
Yes, but I don't think anyone's every heard of a Goderator. :|
... Until now...
Actually, you may have just helped me with a very difficult naming task... The Goderator... That might just work...
*applauds the moogle, as well as everyone else, again* 'Cuz I've got too much time on my hands, it's ticking away with my sanity... :ipod
I fear neither mods nor admins, for I obey the rules! :mwaha ... Mostly... >.>;
Like Master Yadder say...The power of the Karma....Matters...It does not young padiawan
if you have a lot of Bad Karma, you probably either ticked a lot of people off, or you did something really stupid to one of the mods. Say like Goosing RJ or Amber, or by challenging Darkmoon to get RSI.
Quote from: je.saist on October 18, 2006, 04:10:41 AM
if you have a lot of Bad Karma, you probably either ticked a lot of people off, or you did something really stupid to one of the mods. Say like Goosing RJ or Amber, or by challenging Darkmoon to get RSI.
Or someone else who was handing out applause ticked off a mod and they took it out on you.
What's RSI, anyways?
Hey, another 15 minutes went by, time for another round!
Quote from: DigitalMan on October 18, 2006, 05:28:38 AM
What's RSI, anyways?
Repetitive Strain Injury. It's permanent damage to your hands caused by using a mouse too much.
I have a feeling it isn't permanant. I think I had it when I was little (like 8) from using my dad's computer at a funny angle and it dissapeared. Still, temporarily putting a mod out of action could be interesting... I wonder how many smites/applauses it would take...
Quote from: je.saist on October 18, 2006, 04:10:41 AM
if you have a lot of Bad Karma, you probably either ticked a lot of people off, or you did something really stupid to one of the mods. Say like Goosing RJ or Amber, or by challenging Darkmoon to get RSI.
Hey... that sounds strangely familiar....
Quote from: DigitalMan on October 18, 2006, 05:28:38 AM
What's RSI, anyways?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury
Read, and be afraid.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 18, 2006, 07:02:29 AM
Quote from: je.saist on October 18, 2006, 04:10:41 AM
if you have a lot of Bad Karma, you probably either ticked a lot of people off, or you did something really stupid to one of the mods. Say like Goosing RJ or Amber, or by challenging Darkmoon to get RSI.
Hey... that sounds strangely familiar....
Which explains your karma.
If you do that too often, the mods won't bother with karma anymore, they use the Banhammer. :eek
If that doesn't work anymore, they might upgrade to Banhammer 40K (for
the EmperorAmbers sanity))
To be honest, Hazmat, I believe, and at least two others have been smiting me as and when they remember. So at least 38 or so of that is them.
And then there's the others, who seem to like applauding me randomly. I'm not sure why...
Quote from: Jim Halisstrad on October 17, 2006, 07:19:15 PM
For no good reason I display a picture.
(http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n192/jimdarkwolf/pancakes.gif)
I figure Creativity would get a kick out of this.
Dead people like pancakes too? Finally I have a reason behind shooting them with extreme prejudice every time I saw one :o
My karma has been going up, and thats making me feel like writing again... Just gotta find the file. -.-
Quote from: Creativity on October 18, 2006, 09:56:31 AM
My karma has been going up, and thats making me feel like writing again... Just gotta find the file. -.-
... Does that mean my karma means I should be posting to livejournal?
Quote(for the EmperorAmbers sanity))
Don't you mean Empress Amber's Sanity?
Quote... Does that mean my karma means I should be posting to livejournal?
I can just see it now... gothbox.livejournal.com :: The Home of the Gothic Box, peer not inside lest your mortal soul suffer
*watches as je.Saist's and box-boy's massively negative karma functions as a capacitor until overloading and generating a huge static karmic discharge that fries everyone within a 10-post radius!* Wait a sec... I'm too close! *ZZAAPP!* :wizlit
Nah. If you want Negakarma Death Star, you need to look for Darkmoon.
... can we have an invoke Darkmoon emote?
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 18, 2006, 01:40:27 PM
Nah. If you want Negakarma Death Star, you need to look for Darkmoon.
... can we have an invoke Darkmoon emote?
10 post raidus?
/me gooses RJ to make a 20 post radius
/me scampers for cover afterwards.
Hmm, capacitor... *attempts to use the accumulated negative karma as a power source*
Well, I'm awake now, time for another round of applause!
You rang...?
:mwaha
An invoke D emote eh... I wonder what that'd look like...
Negative?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/Tiger_T/altered/Smitey_Mike.gif)
:mowtongue
Is it bad that I was wondering what everyone is doing with all that applesauce?
:wtf
I've Applauded a few people who have done something that I appreciated or thought was really cool, but I don't really think about it. I think some fora use karma as a basis for allowing access to some portions of the message board.
If that were the use for Karma here, most people would be completely screwed.
*gives out yet another round of applause* I have no life! Wheee!
Quote from: je.saist on October 18, 2006, 02:46:17 PM
10 post raidus?
/me gooses RJ to make a 20 post radius
/me scampers for cover afterwards.
...
I choose to forgo smiting you the old fashioned way... I'm gonna get creative.
*throws Saist into a pit of squealing Harry Potter fangirls*
lol
RJ's discovered new levels of ebil >:3
Don't mess with the squirrel
But she's just so -cyooote!- :-)
It's amazing how often cute and evil are found together...
It's amazing how often Saist can be found making unwanted sexual advances and openly grabbing the asses of unwilling women.
I'm amazed he isn't in jail at this point.
*headdesk*
Hm, we need an emoticon for that.
:banghead doesn't count?
That's a very strange desk indeed.
If you can find it, we can emote it.
How about (http://llearch.net/misc/headdesk.gif) ?
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 19, 2006, 08:52:22 AM
How about (http://llearch.net/misc/headdesk.gif) ?
Maybe a more natural table color? Like brown perhaps?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/WEO/Emicons/headdesk.gif) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/WEO/Emicons/headdesk2.gif)
I dumped in wood pattern from Gimp. It kinda needs a larger area, though, to really look effective, I guess.
(http://llearch.net/misc/headdesk.gif)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/WEO/Emicons/headdesk.gif)(http://llearch.net/misc/headdesk.gif)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/WEO/Emicons/headdesk.gif)(http://llearch.net/misc/headdesk.gif)
Looks pretty funky, really :-)
Quote from: RJ on October 19, 2006, 04:12:20 AM
Quote from: je.saist on October 18, 2006, 02:46:17 PM
10 post raidus?
/me gooses RJ to make a 20 post radius
/me scampers for cover afterwards.
...
I choose to forgo smiting you the old fashioned way... I'm gonna get creative.
*throws Saist into a pit of squealing Harry Potter fangirls*
/me gets out of the hopsital 8 months later, mentally scarred for life...
they wanted to make me Hermione's Pet Cat!!!!!! All the dresses... all the make up....
/me curls up in a corner and whimpers
And hey. Slavkei, nice try, but a trolls still a troll. Shut up please.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 19, 2006, 10:02:02 AM
I dumped in wood pattern from Gimp. It kinda needs a larger area, though, to really look effective, I guess.
(http://llearch.net/misc/headdesk.gif)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/WEO/Emicons/headdesk.gif)(http://llearch.net/misc/headdesk.gif)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/WEO/Emicons/headdesk.gif)(http://llearch.net/misc/headdesk.gif)
Looks pretty funky, really :-)
What you do is make a far larger picture, and use the wood filter. Then, take that image, and shrink it down. It'll alias the wood grain and give you a texture. Copy that into the spot you have have for the desk. It's what I do in Photoshop when I need a texture. In theory, it should work the same.
However, the head doesn't really look convincing. It'd be better if it start where the "head against the brick wall" started, and rotated... Of course, I don't have a gif animator, so this is just my suggestion. I aint gonna do it myself. ;)
photoshop doesn't do animated gifs?
damn. I've found something gimp does that photoshop doesn't. I didn't think that was possible...
Oh, and yeah - it -would- look better. This was a quick hack, in 2 minutes I stole from doing work. :-)
I can have a better go later, maybe.
Depends on which version of photoshop. I know you could make an animated gif on photoshop CS2.
I wouldn't in previous versions, and I never realized CS2 would... which is what I have...
Dammit, I'll have to look into that...
I have 8 CS which doesn't do animated .gif's. But Image Ready, which comes with Photoshop, does.
PShop 7 and higher, and maybe a version or two lower (can't confirm that), should come with ImageReady.
Jeez, by the time I get through applauding all these people, another 15 minutes will have passed...
No! No applause! Applause bad!
*grin*
(smites)
Better?
There... -2444 looks far better than -2443. Well for as long as it lasts.
ha! now you have an odd number!
Ha! Now your karma is rather close, though not exceedingly so, to being balanced!
Hey! I dun think that's fair! I wanted to poke fun at the box thingie! :<
... without allowing me to poke fun at you?
That's hardly fair. :-)
Hmm... *applauds Azlan*
There, now you're even closer to being even
Congrats, Llearch, your karma is now a Rush album.
(http://fusionanomaly.net/rush2112.jpg)
Quote from: BillBuckner on October 19, 2006, 08:25:39 PM
Congrats, Llearch, your karma is now a Rush album.
(http://fusionanomaly.net/rush2112.jpg)
But its a negative Rush album... what would that sound like I wonder...
Wow, perfectly balanced karma! I can't believe that worked!
Dammit... Illerch has worse karma than I do (when you take into account his good with his bad)...
Fucker...
I must be the most hated person here...
Uhm... Uhmm...
(goes off to slaughter a small animal)
(looks it in the eyes)
I... just can't do it...
(lets it run free)
*smite smite smite*
It's the effort that counts.
*smite smite smite*
:boogie
HIS POWER LEVEL IS OVER THREE THOUSAND!!!!
Actually, it's at three-thousand.
*Smite*
...Nevermind. :D
Quote from: Jim Halisstrad on October 19, 2006, 10:10:16 PM
HIS POWER LEVEL IS OVER THREE THOUSAND!!!!
*Charles nerdiates* Oh I remember that from DBZ when Gohan was fighting with Napa just before Goku got back from King Kai and Gohan was really pissed cuz Picollo was dead when he saved Gohan and had one of those power spikes that makes no sense, but it happens anyway. That was, like, a cool episode cuz then they were fighting... and stuff. And then stuff happened... stuff that was cool... cuz it was with fighting and powers. :B
Sounds like every episode of DBZ. :rolleyes
I was about to say...
Bwehehehehehehehe.... :zombiekun2
More tricks! More tricks!
:eager
Everytime I think Karma, I have to think of a certain yellow frog girl.
Quote from: Darkmoon on October 20, 2006, 12:08:19 AM
More tricks! More tricks!
:eager
I can turn this pineapple into a screwdriver!
'Pineapple' --> *Poof* --> And voi- HOLY SHIT, THAT'S NOT A SCREWDRIIVER! :O
Candy Bag?!
*edit*
Ok. I get it now.
I'm the dumbest person on the fourm currently. >.>
When it's my birthday, you should rename it to 'Muffin basket'. :)
Quote from: Jim Halisstrad on October 20, 2006, 12:24:43 AM
Candy Bag?!
*edit*
Ok. I get it now.
I'm the dumbest person on the fourm currently. >.>
No, I am. I went to go applaud someone, and was like, "WTF?! :O"
There, now I made Azlan's even. Another victory!
And now I get to hand out treats. Which reminds me, I'd better save up some cash for the day after Halloween... :mwaha
Yay candy
Quote from: BillBuckner on October 19, 2006, 09:24:53 PM
*smite smite smite*
It's the effort that counts.
*smite smite smite*
*muttermuttergrumblemutter*
Quote from: ×HaZ×MaT× on October 20, 2006, 12:09:41 AM
Quote from: Darkmoon on October 20, 2006, 12:08:19 AM
More tricks! More tricks!
:eager
I can turn this pineapple into a screwdriver!
'Pineapple' --> *Poof* --> And voi- HOLY SHIT, THAT'S NOT A SCREWDRIIVER! :O
No, you make screwdrivers with orange juice, not pineapple. :P
Who unbalanced my karma?
Quote from: Zedd on October 20, 2006, 04:05:10 PM
Quote from: Azlan on October 20, 2006, 04:02:35 PM
Who unbalanced my karma?
Was the pied piper...
I assumed the muffinman...
Yay! Balanced again, thankee.
But now it's unbalanced again...
*fixes it again, and resumes his mission to get everyone into the positives* Because I have no life to speak of!
Candy, eh? Giving out that mich sugar may not be the smartest thing to do around here, but who cares.
*looks through emotes list* Hmm, not seeing any candy-ish ones...
He has a point - the last thing we need is a whole bunch of forumites who are high on sugar... Then again, it's halloween, so bring on the candy *grins*
*treats random people*
Tricks and treats plz. :B [/n00bish]
...DAKATA WANT. D:
Edit: I want a billion tricks and treats! :3 Gimme! Gimme!
Soz, but we just don't have that sort of time.
Of course not, that's why I got like 700 smites/tricks the other day. :evil
D: You bastard! It'll take hours, maybe days of clicking to fix that!
I think I'm going to get RSI before anyone else...
Someone call in the emergency RJ!
Quote from: Aridas Soulfire on October 21, 2006, 12:31:44 AM
Someone call in the emergency RJ!
/me holds up a basket of muffins
Trick or Treat!
*holds out candy bag* :D
Yay, candy! Can we eat it? Do positive and negative candy taste different? :candycane