Karma system enabled, applaud or smite

[Pirate88179]

Hi ALL,
I did now enable the Karma system in the Forum software.

This is a feature where you can vote on another user,
if you like his postings or not.

I finally enabled this, as many users complained about other
users hijacking their threads and posting totally unrelated things, etc...

The voting is anonymous, so nobody knows who has
voted positively or negatively.

So be nice and don´t abuse this feature.

If a user gets too many total negative Karma votes,
he will be put on ReadOnly mode.

Also I will enforce, that nobody will
register with a second anonymous username to play games
and tricks with other users.

So please be gentle and stay ontopic and don´t abuse the
forum. Then your Karma will also be going positive.

So this will be member based rating system of other members
and will help to ban trolls and offtopic and annoying posters.

P.S. You can only rate others, if you have already posted 20 postings,
so just registering a new account and smite  other users will not work
and if ou try to do this you also will be catched and banned this way.

Regards. Stefan. (admin)

@ Stefan:

I applaud your enforcement of the multiple user name ban.  There are still folks here doing exactly this and I believe it undermines the integrity of the forum itself.  After all, you build a reputation on any forum, good or bad, by your behavior or lack thereof.  As in life, this reputation should follow you around in the forum.

Stefan, I think this should be a topic all of its own.  (even a locked one)  to warn the multiple user name folks that it is time to stop.  I have done some research and I believe I know who most of them are.  Thanks.

Bill

[ramset]

Bill
I'm not sure Stefan would be interested in limiting members[one address can have several members]
I myself have never posted under any other name
As long as Stefan has the IP's there is no way to abuse and get away with it
Chet

[Pirate88179]

@ Chet:

Sure there is.  My IP address changes on here about every other time I log on.  IP addresses do change on a regular basis.

Stefan said he was going to do this already anyway and I was just agreeing with him.  There are other ways to track folks and I am sure Stefan knows how to do this.   I understand what you say about multiple users from one household, but Stefan can tell that also. (There are several ways) I agree that a husband and wife, or whatever, should be allowed to have access and I am sure that will still be ok.

Bill

[ramset]

Bill
I really don't think this part means no secret identities
Quote

Also I will enforce, that nobody will
register with a second anonymous username to play games
and tricks with other users.

Seems to imply no secret ID to cause mischief
Chet
PS I had no idea about the address thing changing

[Yucca]

As long as Stefan has the IP's there is no way to abuse and get away with it

IP addresses do change on a regular basis.

IP addresses do change, but your block address wont when using the same cable, your IP will always be selected from one of many in your designated IP block.

But employing IP block address blacklisting does not cure all because anyone can just use a proxy server. Also if someone on the same block as a banned user tries to sign up then they will not be able to.