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Why you should not use smite so often

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aman:
Agreed.

Only staff should be able to smite karma.  I lost a few points as well.

dkeen_2013:
I agree completely on the loosing Karma when say viewer 300 gets bent out of shape that by the time they try a link it is dead and this is usually on a post with less than 10 Karma assigned.

Even more frustrating is loosing Karma when you make a post with higher then average Karma since you know if you don't it will for sure die in less than a day. Then anyone with lower then the Karma restriction smites you just for putting a Karma restriction on the post.

My suggestion would be to not remove the ability to smite, but maybe restrict the ability to smite for anyone will less than "X" Karma. Or to go one step further would be to cap a users Karma once they reach a certain milestones, maybe in chunks of 25 or something like that. Once you hit 25 you cannot go down, then 50, then 75, etc.

I have to believe that someone with more than "X" Karma understands that if they are the 300+ viewer of a post with say a 5 Karma restriction they are more than aware that by 300+ views the post is most likely dead.

As for earning the needed Karma to view a post that can simply be obtained by contributing. Does not necessarily need to be in the password section. Post a good discussion topic, post some movies or pics, or post a few back doors or spoofs.

The Karma factor on this forum was what drove me to want to contribute more so I could see all of those fabulous posts everyone had posted.

My 10 cents  8) 

fortitudo:
As a user I would never use smite myself, I used to run forums ages ago and things like that get abused by people in bad moods or just because something didn't work for them.
Better off taking smite out and leave applaud in.
Some users don't understand that they may be the user after someone else who took the last use of the password, they just think they are the only one to visit and the pass should work for them, if it don't then the person posting didn't do a good job, not they weren't quick enough!

Education or remove smite are the answers I think.

On that note I thank all pass posters, I do appreciate the work! If I use the pass I give karma, if I don't I still do because I appreciate the effort (Just need some karma to see the passes now!)

gabuzomeu1:
Very unhappy to "loose" 10 karmas during the night just because some users were angry about died passes (inspite for each of them I check it has not been already posted and I check it's working just before I put on the forum).

Maybe the solution is to use karma like "money" (only for smite). You can give karma with no restriction (except time) and if you want to smite, you have to "pay" one karma and loosing it.

...just an idea...

gmaty069:
Yea that sucks, passes die, some faster than others, no need to smite others who at least made the effort

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