[Spartacus]

Everyone claims they don't care what their karma is, yet any time a person sees an unexplained drop, I get an email complaining about it. You just can't ignore a number right next to your name that announces what the community thinks of you.

Read more:http://www.cracked.com/article_16765_5-ways-to-stop-trolls-from-killing-internet.html#ixzz2PMbiLxw8

Have no idea what this would do with trolls. Might as well take the wiki approach and let everyone moderate everyone else.....

Its not a popularity contest. The main idea is the belief that what a user posts is influenced by these 'internet points'. Meaning, they are less likely to post troll comments given the knowledge that they would be downvoted, affecting their 'karma'. However, even if a user doesn't care about his 'karma', a negative karma indicated under the person's profile gives other current and new users info that that user should not be taken seriously.

tldr;
people influenced by internet points.
you'd know who generally posts constructive comments and troll comments in the forum.

I haven't been changing any story. But this is definitely opened to suggestions.

Double post

Some opinions regarding the rep/karma system posted in XenForo forums.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/rep...tem.10017/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/why...tem.30084/

We can propose ideas but what we have realistically is what Xenforo or other developers offer since our forum software is powered by them.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/bd-...tem.15046/

This addon received good reviews.
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/p...level.410/