Implemented Karma System via Reactions Balancing

[Rem]

• Someone reacting to your content generates karma dependent on the reaction type.
  • =5
  • =10
  • = 15
  • = 10
  • = 1
  • = 15
  • = 5
  • = 10
  • = 15
  • = 15

The idea is to balance the "weight" of the reaction with the "pool" of potential karma.

High Reward = High Variance: Reactions that can give a lot of karma have a wider RNG range.

Low Reward = Low Variance: Common or "negative" reactions have a smaller, more predictable RNG.
Idea

Reaction	Range	Variance
/ / /	1-12	High
/ /	2-10	Medium
/	3-5	Low/Stable
	2-4	Low/Stable
	0-1	Lol

By widening the pool for the high-value reactions, it prevents "karma inflation" from being too linear. You might get lucky with a 15, or you might just get a 1.
Also, this avoid people to just only always use the "high value" reactions and really just use what they want to use.
It adds a bit of rng gamification to the forum experience instead of being static.

 

[roydan]

I see you decided you continue your video game journey in the suggestions section?

 

[Rem]

I see you decided you continue your video game journey in the suggestions section?

I do work on it yes, but not as much as before
new job is a lot more stressful personally had less personal time this year

 

[roydan]

I upvoted that even though I hate it when you improve an idea I passed yesterday.

 

[Rem]

I upvoted that even though I hate it when you improve an idea I passed yesterday.

appreciate the honesty

 

[Zwielicht]

This is a really good idea @Rem, and actually very easy for me to add in.

6 upvotes already. I’ll start looking at adding this in today.

 

[Zwielicht]

Okay, I tested it using @All For One on myself. It was a little more complex to add in that I originally thought. I had to make some adjustments to prevent someone from gaming the reaction system to farm Karma, but the main thing is that the variances to Karma work without breaking the event negation system, so this has been added in now.

By the way, I used your table in the Karma site guide. Yes, I credited you for it.

Thank you everyone who voted on this.