This model is taken roughly from Slashdot. The idea is to allow good comments to rise and bad ones to sink, and to define 'good' and 'bad' according to the opinions of the users who have been around longest and made the best comments in the past.
- Comments (posts) have a moderation score from -1 to +5.
- Normal viewers see posts with a score 1 or higher.
- Admins and moderators read all posts.
- Each user has a karma, per site.
- User karmas go from -10 to +50.
- Each time a user's post is moderated, their karma goes up or down.
- Admins can moderate any posts up or down, unlimited times.
- Other users can moderate posts only when they get 'mod points'.
- Each post generates 3 mod points, which are distributed to users.
- Mod points are distributed randomly weighted to each users' karma.
- Anonymous posts always start at -1.
- Posts from users with karma 0->10 start at 0.
- Posts from users with karma 11->30 start at 1.
- Posts from users with karma 30->50 start at 2.
I think this could be part of the rateable module, and could apply to all pages, not just forum posts.
Ok, agree. It would be great! The same could go to rating individual page revisions!
In my humble plan each user would have "global" karma and karma within individual sites.
It is certainly sth I would work on!
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I thought about a global karma, but that would allow communities to mess with each other - i.e. the trolls could start a wiki, give each other lots of karma, and then use this to attack the geeks.