Can Somebody Explain This Karma Thing?

[moneywhisperer]

So I exalted cronewitch (because her posts are just awesome) but noticed that my ability to give karma was eliminated for a couple of days after I did that.

How does the karma deal work on proboards? Sorry if I'm being a dweeb, but I did look through the help topics to try and find it, but failed

How about karma in your money life? How's that working?

I believe in karma & that what goes around comes around.
When people do bad things and then get their come-uppance I am positively gleeful. I'll probably go to hell for feeling that way but it totally seems right when someone does something evil but gets hit with appropriate consequences!

[quotequeen]

They're trying to prevent people from continually giving out karma and making it ridiculous. The same thing was happening with negative karma and now the smite button is gone.

[Nazgul Girl]

When will I be able to give Karma ? I feel that I am too cool ( even if no one else thinks so ) not to have this psychic ability. I have other psychic abilities, such as being able to move space and time, hearing plants grow and the earth turn, and being able to find parking places near the door to the mall no matter how busy the shopping season is, although I wisely refrain from using them here....

I feel that being able to hand out some karma should be part of my psychic abilities package. Alas that it is inhibited by mere technology.

[dancinmama]

Jan 2, 2011 10:02:17 GMT -5 quotequeen said:

They're trying to prevent people from continually giving out karma and making it ridiculous. The same thing was happening with negative karma and now the smite button is gone.

Uhm....isn't it all kind of ridiculous anyway? Since there are no standards, does it REALLY have any meaning? No. They should just either remove both (exalt and smite) OR leave them alone and let people exalt and smite until they're blue in the face - IMHO.

[quotequeen]

Jan 2, 2011 11:15:08 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Jan 2, 2011 10:02:17 GMT -5 quotequeen said:

They're trying to prevent people from continually giving out karma and making it ridiculous. The same thing was happening with negative karma and now the smite button is gone.

Uhm....isn't it all kind of ridiculous anyway? Since there are no standards, does it REALLY have any meaning? No. They should just either remove both (exalt and smite) OR leave them alone and let people exalt and smite until they're blue in the face - IMHO.

I dunno. I am on another board where it works pretty well. There are no "standards" but people give karma when somebody makes a good post and take it away when somebody makes a stupid/annoying post, for the most part.

[Poppet]

isn't it all kind of ridiculous anyway? Since there are no standards, does it REALLY have any meaning? No. They should just either remove both (exalt and smite) OR leave them alone and let people exalt and smite until they're blue in the face -


Agreed.

[robbase]

Didn't Culture Club have a song about this?

[Poppet]

Didn't Culture Club have a song about this?

Yeah, it goes like this:

"Do you really wanna huuuurrt me?
Red, gold, and green
Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma chameleon
You come and go, you come and go

and something about a crying game.

[Deleted]

I'm older. The Beatles had a song about Instant Karma. Their theory was that it was going to "get" you.

[Poppet]

Their theory was that it was going to "get" you.


That's right, it's gonna knock you off your feet.