>> Some advantages: - Members can climb the 'ranks' faster which satisfies peoples' thirst for power (who doesn't like being promoted).
That's a huge disadvantage. I used to run a site that had a karma system, and the more karma you had, the bigger the impact when you gave someone else positive or negative karma. That "thirst for power" just got bigger and bigger and bigger, and it ended up almost ruining what had previously been an extremely good community. When we (the other admins and mods) decided to drop the system, it only returned to normal after a lot of the previously-helpful senior members were given temporary bans so they could 'cool off' for a while.
The more complex karma becomes and the more people keep obsessing about it and wanting to improve it, it's just going to impede the real progress of the community.
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>> Some advantages: - Members can climb the 'ranks' faster which satisfies peoples' thirst for power (who doesn't like being promoted).
That's a huge disadvantage. I used to run a site that had a karma system, and the more karma you had, the bigger the impact when you gave someone else positive or negative karma. That "thirst for power" just got bigger and bigger and bigger, and it ended up almost ruining what had previously been an extremely good community. When we (the other admins and mods) decided to drop the system, it only returned to normal after a lot of the previously-helpful senior members were given temporary bans so they could 'cool off' for a while.
The more complex karma becomes and the more people keep obsessing about it and wanting to improve it, it's just going to impede the real progress of the community.