Journal bloodrose's Journal: What? 7
Ok, so I missed a very important line in the Slashdot F.A.Q's that talk about not earning Karma for "Funny" posts. I can understand this, however what doesn't make sense is the fact that you can loose Karma in a post that is marked "Funny", doesn't necessarily seem balanced to me.
In my last Journal post I noted that someone had marked me as a Troll, the comment I had posted also had been marked as Overrated, and Funny, giving it an overall score of 4. Now with the fact that I only had one other moderated Comment, +1 for informative, the -2 on this post dropped me to bad Karma... despite the fact that most of the moderation pointed in a positive direction. Now, my bad karma due to a one liner of humor has earned me the right to sit below most thresholds, despite my history of comments and activity...
Oddly off balanced.
well... when you sit so close to the edge, (Score:2)
Perhaps neutral should be > -2 2 karma, as opposed to 0 or 1.
Re:well... when you sit so close to the edge, (Score:2)
IE, togo from 0 to 1 (or -1) requires 1 point.
moving up or down another requires 2 points, 3 for 3 points, 5 for 4, etc.
Hrm, but this would make movement aware from neutral hard, in either direction.
Ah, perhaps we calculate total karma like this:
karma = total_pos_score - total_neg_score
where total post score and total neg score are both fibo based, so to get a total pos score of 5 would require 1 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 5 = 12,
Re:well... when you sit so close to the edge, (Score:2)
If a post is seen as modded-up for being funny, then it gets noticed by more moderators. If a post sits are zero or 1 forever, and moderators think its a troll, they don't bother modding it down - because it already is down.
But if a 4 or 5 does nto agree with them - they try to fix it. thus, a high scrore on a humor post attracts moderation - and then any moderator who doesn't like your humor can negatively affect your karma.
It'd almost be better if 'fun
Re:well... when you sit so close to the edge, (Score:2)