The new Karma system I developed is really putting a strain on the system.  Each person’s Karma takes ¼ second to generate/calculate, so I’ve already had to remove it from the “Online Users” page which is a long list (Taking 60 seconds to load for example). I have a solution however…. I will stop the dynamic calculations and start running a job 2 or 3 times per day that will refresh everyone’s Karma. I’ll make this change next week because it’s quite a complicated one do. Just a head’s up in case you’re wondering why some forum pages are loading slow recently.                                                                                                                                                                             

Do we really need Karma? I find it embarassing because I seem to be on here often but its so little.
I say get rid of Karma!!
                                                                                                                                                                             

Noooo! Keep the Karma!!   There's no other way I'd get onto the top 20 males list!!                                                                                                                                                                              

u can ditch the karma for me, i av been hovvering around the middle of pop fems but i still dont rate it, if u join in the chats n forums you can soon see who is a regular contributor. peeps seem too concerned with raising their karma, just join in i say!

I thot it was a scale of weird and wonderful, phew glad mines only low lol do i need to move my furniture round to get it higher or am i mixin that up with sumat else lol                                                                                                                                                                             

Dammit... I clicked on this thread hoping to see Matt's world famous Boy George impression!

*sulks*

                                                                                                                                                                             

P.S. I much prefer the "karma" system over the old "most popular" system.

& before anyone says "You would say that, wouldn't you?" because my karma count is high enough to be in the top 20 jobbie, you can reset my karma count to zero for all I care, I still think the system's better than "most popular".

At least "karma" is showing people in the top 20 that are active around the forums and on event attendance etc and not just PM/nod count etc. "Most popular" seemed to be mainly based on people looking at profiles/being looked at, nods and PMs from what I could make of it.

WB,you would say that wouldn't you because your karma count etc etc.                                                                                                                                                                             

BM is slacking... 12 minutes for that response?!                                                                                                                                                                               

Jackie - I think you're thinking of the Eastern philosophy known as Toeism. You can easily identify followers of Toeism by their joyful praise of the Unipurse, usually given in the phrase "Ouch! I stubbed my bloody toe! Who moved that chair FFS?!"                                                                                                                                                                              

you can reset my karma count to zero for all I care,

Wb - I've tried clicking on yer Karma bar and dragging it to the left, but the damn thing refuses to budge!                                                                                                                                                                               

Ere Matt? XK broke it again!

You're in SO much trouble now XK
                                                                                                                                                                             

I'm always in the sh*t - it's just the depth that varies!                                                                                                                                                                              

We can still see your head mate!                                                                                                                                                                             

swim XK swim.....                                                                                                                                                                               

lol trust u lot to be serious.   And Karma is staying, took me bloody ages to develop it after everyone was complaining about the unfair popular pages.   And it's generated a lot more activity on the site - which is great!                                                                                                                                                                             

Only b'cos we are all sending other nonsense pm's, viewing each other furiously and writing a few words in the forums which have nothing to do with the topics...   <--------  runs away quick...                                                                                                                                                                               

Ah is that how karma works Feisty   (must now think of inane drivel to write all over the place)   WAIT - i do that already me thinks !!!!                                                                                                                                                                             

By the way XK brown suits u lol                                                                                                                                                                             

small crappy posts in the forum dont count for anything.  There is a minimum length requirement before they count towards Karma.   And you can view someone 1,000 times, but only 1 view counts