Community karma system - Discussions

[markdoane]

Without access to any data, I would expect the distribution of Karm to follow a Pareto distribution Pareto distribution: Information from Answers.com, where lots of people have a little, and a few people have a lot.

This is probably the way that total posts are also distributed. Data on the number of posts is available from the membership lists, but the data is difficult to import, and I don't want to do the analysis. So there...

[wahoonc]

Originally Posted by nickcrowhurst

Some powerful person in cyberspace has made me laugh out loud while seated at a PC in a supposedly quiet public library in FL. My karma count has, by a remarkable coincidence, been VERY rapidly accellerated to a remakably coincidental number. That's very funny, but to whom do I send the karma for this?????? Another of life's mysteries....... send for Guy Noire.
Nick.

Nick if you go to User CP at the top of the thread of the you can see who bestowed the Karma upon you (at least I think you can ) Also just as general information, the more Karma you have the more you give in a single gift.

Aaron

[Silvertwinkie]

Originally Posted by wahoonc

Nick if you go to User CP at the top of the thread of the you can see who bestowed the Karma upon you (at least I think you can ) Also just as general information, the more Karma you have the more you give in a single gift.

Aaron

Yup....that's the place to check. The comments are really neat touch too. Of course if you ever get delta karma, those comments are typically interesting too!