Meta: comment point bug
but I just figured it was because I was better than everyone else. Thanks a lot.
Somtimes I get one, others two. I don't really give a rusty fuck but here's a test on my one.
EDIT: Maybe Skynet did become self aware and is messing with the point system. Also test confirms 1 point, God hates me.
It's Karma. You have two Karma. The more you post, the higher the point total or something. Go to your profile and take a look.
From Drupal's User Karma module page:
How does karma work?
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So, if user 99 for example writes 10 comments, and they all get votes > 0, the person's karma will stay positive. Vice versa, if user 98 has 10 comments and they are all flamebaits which get votes < 0, the person's karma will be negative. This assumes that rating can be < 0.
Now... some modules work differently, and only allow positive voting (for example rating from 1 to 10 etc.). This module will work in those cases too: since karma expires (meaning that only content newer than N days will be considered for karma), the users' karma will eventually stabilise.
A Users Manual to post and vote on a blog.
It's your current Karma total.
No idea how your Karma is determined... but that's it.
Huh? Where do you see that? I'm as confused by this new system as anybody
I don't know what Zone Left was referring to, but click on any user (including yourself) and you can see the karma number.
Edit: Nope, just your own. My bad.
I'm just a fan of your posts, that's all.
And a sweet Karma score of 1.
there seems to be a lot of good Karma surrounding the program lately
While we're at it, do comments have a max point value of 5? I upvoted someone whose comment had 5 and nothing happened.
That seems to be the case. I honestly am not a fan; I liked watching a good comment get to +70 or a bad one doing the opposite.
I find myself clicking collapsed comments anyways because sometimes there is actual information being said.
I can understand the collapsed comments when it gets to maybe -5, but sometimes good posts are moderated for no reason.
You can set your threshold to -1, which appears to be the lowest that comments can go, and you'll see everything.
Personally, I'm indifferent to this system, because I don't really care about the individual comments. I liked the points system because users could minimize the impact of bad posters by negging them so low that they could never create content. A user with 100 flamebait posts still gets to create a flamebait thread after 100 shitty comments.
Thanks for the tip. That does save me from my own laziness.
I agree, but entering 100 CAPTCHAs are a bitch. I would know I came back from around -200 to get to 500 and back to -90 because of expiring points.
One thing I've noticed is that when I try to click on a post that has been minimized by a negative vote the thread will refresh and I will end up back at the original post. It's frustrating because all it takes is one negative vote for a comment to be lost forever to me. I want to make up my own mind about whether a comment is worth reading or not.
Yeah. The refresh happens to me too. I don't like how the comments collapse. I feel like we are in some dictatorship, and certain comments get assassinated due to their deviance from the norm.
Can't you just adjust the Threshold at the top of the comments section?
Thanks. I didn't know I could do that.
It encourages "groupthink" which is already hard enough to combat in an online forum.
Interesting idea. I'm not sure if I agree with you though until I hear some more input.
Not really a dictatorship unless you are saying us Mgodenizens are a secret police as its the users that moderate the board.
You're not using IE are you? It works for me in Firefox 4 and Chrome.
I'm using Firefox. Not sure what version. FWIW, it only seems to happen when I am not on the first page of a multiple page thread. On the first page it seems like I can expand collapsed comments fine.
HEEEYYYY!
I just want to come on and read some Michigan football stuff, man. I don't need all this....mumbo jumbo, man. What the fuck, Walter?
This dude not THE DUDE.
"Make it zero Smokey."
Any combination of "Tressel" or "that school in Ohio" and an obscenity should automatically qualify for the maximum number of points, right?
"That school in Ohio" "shits" "Tressels"
I love this picture. I rank it up there with Branch walking away from Morelli.
Didn't know about the "karma" thing. I've found that my posts all start from zero and I don't have the ability to up/down vote any comments. I thought that anyone above 100 points could vote?
Also, I used to view comments from newest to oldest, but now the newest comments are down on the bottom. Anyone know how to fix that?
Is there a way to re-moderate your moderation of a comment?
I would like this as well. I have accidently negged a post or I have had second thoughts.
As mentioned, this is a feature: people who post generally good stuff start off higher and people with generally bad stuff start off at 0 or worse.
I'm not sure what's up with the refresh bug. People experiencing it should send me an email detailing their browser and what happens.
It might be that you (and the majority here) will find this new system to work very well. I could be in the extreme minority, but new system seems (to me) to silence those who have not shared the majority view. I am labeled "flamebait" for asking a question about formatting comments? There isn't much "flame" involved in asking how to view new comments on the top of the page.
Anyway, I'm sure there are lots of small changes to work out in a new system, but my 2 cents (clearly not worth enough to vote here anymore) says that the new system is overly complicated and unnecessarily silences those who don't share the majority view.
Yeah this new system sucks. BRING BACK HALOSCAN
between people with different views, and people who are assholes. I can have a decent conversation with people with different views, but not with assholes. Maybe if you tone down the rhetoric, read what people actually write, respond with your views (different or same), and stop playing a victim, you won't get the flamebait tag as much.
Maybe if you tone down the rhetoric, read what people actually write, respond with your views (different or same), and stop playing a victim, you won't get the flamebait tag as much.
Have you ever thought that maybe he doesn't know how to read or write? Maybe he's blind. Take that mr. smarty pants.
I guess that is point set match for Dark Blue
You realize that you are telling me to "tone down the rhetoric" and calling me an "asshole" at the same time, right? Whatever you say, guy. I'll post simple things like, "How do I get comments to order newest to oldest" and you can call me an asshole. It's a fun process.
Well...on the plus side, it seems I am able to moderate again.
I implied you are an asshole. I like how you cherry pick the most innocent comment on here you've made (which wasn't even in the comment I replied to) and use that as an indication of your type of posts.
My post was a response to your post where you think that the only reason people don't like your posts is because you provide a different view. I responded that this is not why. I was refering to your other posts like when you took a comment http://mgoblog.com/comment/reply/54373/1061309 I said and tried make up a bunch of other stuff like I don't like Hoke. Those type of actions are what people don't like.
Again though, keep trying to play the poor me victim.
The whole point system is a mystery to me, but I once got a "Flamebait" label for asking whether the Big 10 had any independent power to punish Tressel or OSU for the recent unpleasantness. Seemed like a legit question then, and it didn't draw any stupid replies, so I was/am confused by it the comment drawing a "Flamebait" tag.
Of course I'm pretty easy to confuse.
It's probably because there is someone who doesn't like you or a comment you made in the past, and, regardless of what you say and how insightful it is, they're going to downvote you.
Ad hominem negs = ubiquitous. But at least under the old point system, such negs didn't have the effect of collapsing your comment and labeling it "trolling," or "flamebait," etc...
For all the talk that the point system was too draconian, we've given more power to people to use on their feelings rather than their reason.