Feature Karma System On Office Outlaw

[roydan]

Think of this way: if you contribute and engage on the forum, you gain karma easily. However, when you consume (i.e., download attachments) or cause issues (i.e., warnings), you lose karma.

What's this?

 

[Zwielicht]

What's this?

That’s partly outdated. Downloading attachments doesn’t cause a reduction in karma as I removed that feature months ago, but getting notices still does. I’ll update that right now.

 

[Skyrocket]

Karma is a bitch

 

[Friendly]

I like this. Karma. It has a nice ring to it.

 

[Zwielicht]

This site guide has been updated since we rebalanced the karma system. https://officeoutlaw.com/threads/karma-system-rebalancing.3304/

 

[vicky71083]

Just a quick question , How I can check Karma transactions .

from which activity I gained and spend karma points.

 

[Dopious]

Just a quick question , How I can check Karma transactions .

Transactions

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[roydan]

Transactions

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I think he asks more about the logs, which reaction follow or comments gained karma

 

[Dopious]

I think he asks more about the logs, which reaction follow or comments gained karma

Yeah, I`m dumb.

 

[Zwielicht]

This has been updated based on a suggestion by @roydan.

Implemented - Give different types of reactions a different Karma bonus

This has been on my mind for a few weeks, but didn't have much of an example to demonstrate it with until a few hours ago. I obviously disgusted @SilverClouds with my comment about being an employee, yet, her reaction still gave me karma as if it was a positive reaction. I think we should...

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Different reactions give more of less Karma, depending on the reaction type.

 

[vicky71083]

Just a quick question , How I can check Karma transactions .

from which activity I gained and spend karma points.

@Zwielicht can this be implemented , like if any user wants to know how many Karma points he/she earned or spent and on which activity or it will be too complicated .

For an example when I click on transactions it showing like this

But I want to know which activity brings me Karma points and which activity spends those.

 

[Zwielicht]

@Zwielicht can this be implemented , like if any user wants to know how many Karma points he/she earned or spent and on which activity or it will be too complicated .

For an example when I click on transactions it showing like this

View attachment 4830

But I want to know which activity brings me Karma points and which activity spends those.

From what I remember, that was originally disabled because members found the alerts annoying. The alerts would still be annoying and will remain disabled, but I could always enable just the logs in the transaction.

I'll look it over in a bit and get back to you about that.

 

[vicky71083]

Yes , that will be great . You can disable the notifications . But enable the transactions so that we can check.

 

[Zwielicht]

Yes , that will be great . You can disable the notifications . But enable the transactions so that we can check.

I added a bit more to that transaction log.

I made it so that transactions for "special events" such as trophies show up there, but not Karma received for something common like reactions. Otherwise, the transaction log would be overloaded.

We'll see how this goes over time.

March 16, 2026

We've added a few more transaction types to the transaction log for Karma. Before, it just showed donations, but now it shows karma earned for "special events" such as receiving trophies and stars. It should give a little more purpose to that page.

 

[vicky71083]

So much thanks for that.

 

[Zwielicht]

There was a minor update to the Karma system today. The OP has been updated to reflect this change.

Today's update is a simple one to rebalance the Karma system further. More specifically, the following actions now have measures in place to discourage spamming:

• Following users
• Thread creation

The adjustment just limits how often Karma is awarded in a set period of time. This is to prevent someone from joining and farming Karma by spamming threads or following every user.

Creating posts in threads also now awards Karma and have the measures above implemented. This not being an event originally was just an oversight.