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Julie - members currently can't change your Karma. It's something I'm deciding on and the jury is still out. Also still deciding if it should be a preference or not, but I don't want new folks getting confused when they don't see a karma bar on all profiles. Drobess - Yes Chat increases your Karma. BUT - it's so easy to bump up your Karma in chat that it would be too easy. Therefore chat messages have a lower "value" than (for example) forum posts, or receiving messages etc. Old red - some people have -5,000 points already lol (It would go back to 0 if they logged in today though). Anyone with less than 0 points will show a 0% score. Cass - the idea was to make it fairer. Still don't want it to be "Who talks the most" though. It's a combinations of lots of variables now - so you have to be "Active" to get high Karma. There are some people who have lots of profile hits but do nothing else... they're not on the lists! Profile hits aren't as valuable as you think. The maths behind it take every variable, look at the average for the site, and 'weight' them accordingly. The maths can't possibly know what you do offline, or for what reasons you send PMsetc. So they can only be rewarded by others bumping up your Karma if we choose to have that feature (I know at least 1 person doesn't want it though). The other sites I've seen this system working on are not dating sites, just social networking sites for partying etc. It's a community rating, not a "How fit is he/she" rating. Frag - you'd have to post 200 forum posts a week to get the same karma as you get for being staff. DC - It's not a measurement of looks, it's a community rating. It can help new folks (especially girls) to decide if they should meet up with a guy or not. If they see someone has a long history on the site and a good "Karma" then it may be a good sign that they're a trustworthy person (Of course this might not be the case, but it's at least SOME indication rather than no indication) CG - If you go on hols, your Karma will slowly decrease as you've not made any posts etc in the past 14 days. It will also drop if you don't logon. As soon as you login though it will shoot up. You loose points for each day you're not online, but get them all back when you login again. The only person with a full blue bar is the person with the highest Karma. Everyone else's bar is a percentage of the person with the highest Karma. Newkid - At the moment, nobody can vote on your Karma. This is still open for debate. Yes you will loose Karma for keeping quiet... that's the point! The idea is to make people active, post in the forums and join the chatroom etc. It's a damn social site at the end ofthe day, and it's my job to get people more involved (Especially at the moment because site activity and subscribers have dropped massively during the economy crisis thing)

Julie - members currently can't change your Karma.  It's something I'm deciding on and the jury is still out.  Also still deciding if it should be a preference or not, but I don't want new folks getting confused when they don't see a karma bar on all profiles.
Drobess - Yes Chat increases your Karma. BUT - it's so easy to bump up your Karma in chat that it would be too easy.  Therefore chat messages have a lower "value" than (for example) forum posts, or receiving messages etc.
Old red - some people have -5,000 points already lol (It would go back to 0 if they logged in today though).  Anyone with less than 0 points will show a 0% score.
Cass - the idea was to make it fairer.  Still don't want it to be "Who talks the most" though.  It's a combinations of lots of variables now - so you have to be "Active" to get high Karma.  There are some people who have lots of profile hits but do nothing else... they're not on the lists!  Profile hits aren't as valuable as you think.  The maths behind it take every variable, look at the average for the site, and 'weight' them accordingly.  The maths can't possibly know what you do offline, or for what reasons you send PMsetc.  So they can only be rewarded by others bumping up your Karma if we choose to have that feature (I know at least 1 person doesn't want it though).  The other sites I've seen this system working on are not dating sites, just social networking sites for partying etc.  It's a community rating, not a "How fit is he/she" rating.
Frag - you'd have to post 200 forum posts a week to get the same karma as you get for being staff.
DC - It's not a measurement of looks, it's a community rating.  It can help new folks (especially girls) to decide if they should meet up with a guy or not.  If they see someone has a long history on the site and a good "Karma" then it may be a good sign that they're a trustworthy person (Of course this might not be the case, but it's at least SOME indication rather than no indication)
CG - If you go on hols, your Karma will slowly decrease as you've not made any posts etc in the past 14 days.  It will also drop if you don't logon.  As soon as you login though it will shoot up.  You loose points for each day you're not online, but get them all back when you login again.  The only person with a full blue bar is the person with the highest Karma.  Everyone else's bar is a percentage of the person with the highest Karma.
Newkid - At the moment, nobody can vote on your Karma.  This is still open for debate.  Yes you will loose Karma for keeping quiet... that's the point!  The idea is to make people active, post in the forums and join the chatroom etc.  It's a damn social site at the end ofthe day, and it's my job to get people more involved (Especially at the moment because site activity and subscribers have dropped massively during the economy crisis thing)

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