Karma system in the official forums?

[Shougun]

Isn't that essentially what the medals are. The blue ones are based on the number of posts the red ones based on reputatuion or something like that.

So if you have a lot of blue medals but no red ones you post a lot but your rep sucks.

If all your medals are red then your rep is solid.

I don't actually know the specifics because I've basically never cared. but seem to recall it beingsomething along those lines at least

As far as I remember it's:

1 for likes given (kin), 1 for likes received (kin), 2 for post count, and the last two I've no foggy idea how they work. <- known info

There are four kin medals and two (red) post count medals. Blue medals are just a different 'value' of the post count medal.

If I had to guess one might be posting in all the different forum areas, because I almost immediately got one for posting in the lore forum once (although I had made a bug report around the similar time), and then maybe posts outside of GD, # of reports, or some magic ratio. It's quite easy to get 4 medals. At the time I got fifth and sixth was around the time I had made a report and posted for one the first times in the lore forum. Long ago there was an individual that had like 10 medals in the Japanese forum, like in 2012 lol, so I wonder if sometimes it's just from the CM / One Eye'd Demon. I seriously don't know for sure on those last two though, they just come around at some point lol. It could even be something as silly as login each day consecutively for X number of days. Alternatively maybe it's simply two for likes given and two for likes received and they're just huuuge numbers, 100 likes given and then like 10,000 likes given for the second one lol.

[Dzian]

As far as I remember it's:

1 for likes given (kin), 1 for likes received (kin), 2 for post count, and the last two I've no foggy idea how they work. <- known info

There are four kin medals and two (red) post count medals. Blue medals are just a different 'value' of the post count medal.

If I had to guess one might be posting in all the different forum areas, because I almost immediately got one for posting in the lore forum once (although I had made a bug report around the similar time), and then maybe posts outside of GD, # of reports, or some magic ratio. It's quite easy to get 4 medals. At the time I got fifth and sixth was around the time I had made a report and posted for one the first times in the lore forum. Long ago there was an individual that had like 10 medals in the Japanese forum, like in 2012 lol, so I wonder if sometimes it's just from the CM / One Eye'd Demon. I seriously don't know for sure on those last two though, they just come around at some point lol. It could even be something as silly as login each day consecutively for X number of days. Alternatively maybe it's simply two for likes given and two for likes received and they're just huuuge numbers, 100 likes given and then like 10,000 likes given for the second one lol.

cheers. id always assumed it was the rep thingthe op wants. and i guess if its measured in likes it kind of is. in some fashion.

[Caurcas]

Eh, this would end up like Reddit with unpopular/dissenting opinions being buried.

[Tint]

I've edited this post a few times now, but feel confident these are correct and the the right side of the "medals" are definitely the post count (they literally have post rank in the filename):



Rank 1: 1 -> 9
Rank 2: 10 -> 19
Rank 3: 20 -> 29
Rank 4: 30 -> 49
Rank 5: 50 -> 99
Rank 6: 100 -> 249
Rank 7: 250 -> 499
Rank 8: 500 -> 999
Rank 9: 1000 -> 1999
Rank 10: 2000+

The left side are just called "kin" in the filename (does that mean anything?) and not everyone has these "kin" medals. You can have between 0-3 kin, and any you have appear as a single gold medal each. You can select/highlight someones medals to check which is left/right (rank medals are multiple medals in same image, "kin" are separate medals).

So yes, these "kin" medals are more or less the karma you gained from the like button.

[ChazNatlo]

Having done what the OP asked and checked posting history to verify, I don't think this is a troll sock puppet. Just a poster of bad takes.

Unless this Titanman everyone talks about is playing the long con and had a puppet be semi reasonable at various points to cloud their trolling intentions. In which case why use a Roe as their character. Like, 90% of the time I see someone accuse a poster of being Titanman, the OP is a Roe.

[Zomkei]

huh, i learned something new today regarding the medals

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I wonder if post medals have more to do with created threads than posts?

I have 3 kin medals and only 2 post medals, with 4900 odd posts., and I haven't seen a silver medal in ages...

[Gramul]

I say, we let the people with the most Gold Medals tell us all what to do

[Catwho]

My 410,000 karma on Reddit is absolute proof that karma is pointless and stupid because if a shitposter like me can rack up a 400K Karma score.... then it's a useless system.

The updoot system that these forums use is a good enough gauge as to whether the rest of the forum thinks you're right.

[TaleraRistain]

That sounds dreadful. I've seen that sort of system just completely destroy other communities. It's a no from me.