From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 23:05:37 MST
Hal Finney wrote:
> Spike wrote:
>
>
>>This +157/-0 means (I think) that Harvey has had
>>posts in the archives opened 157 times, and has never
>>started a thread to which no one responded.
>
> I don't think that's how karma works. Rather, if you look at the BBS
> interface, for example this thread at
> http://www.extropy.org/bbs/index.php?board=67;action=display;threadid=55166
> and you look under the Karma display for each post, you see two links:
> [applaud] [smite]. At least, you see this if you're logged in, maybe
> you don't see them if you're browsing anonymously.
Ah, that must be it. I see no smite or applaud, and I was
indeed browsing anonymously. I can see how this would be
an enormously useful tool, if we could expand the scope.
What I am more interested in than smite/applaud would be
an interest gage, a snore/indeed choice, indicating the
level of interest.
Does it take into account the karma of the applauder/smiter?
Wouldn't make much sense otherwise. For the applaud/smite
feature to be of any use, it would need to record which posts
received which response.
>>OK I looked over the new archive tool, which is
>>about the coolest thing Ive seen in months.
>
> Was that talking about the BBS interface like the one I gave the
> URL to above? Or is their another archive that is cool? Hal
Ja, that is the one you posted Hal. I just hadn't seen
it before now. Does it prevent one from smiting oneself?
Or applauding oneself?
This notion is filled with interesting self referential
paradox, ya just gotta love it. {8-]
What is karma? Who wrote it? spike
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