Nettes Interview.All about Karma
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Let’s all worship our new goddess: Karma. Karma will bring new enlightment and even more fun and fairness to the platform. You don’t believe me? Why don’t you read the details first?
Why do we need Karma?
Oh boy, seriously, everybody needs karma! Karma shows us how active a person is and what quality the community member’s activity has. High karma is always a good thing! Plus, we use karma to decide who should get the nice extra treats that sometimes come along with a contest. Ever got a TV just for giving good ratings? Happened on jovoto.com…
How do I collect Karma?
Easy one: submit good ideas, give good comments and rate as many ideas as fair and diverse as possible.
So in general there are three karma categories:
- Idea karma: the better your idea is, the more karma you get. And obviously a sold or featured idea makes some extra karma points…
- Comment karma: Give feedback and get good karma points for it. Peple give you the thumbs up for your karma? That makes for extra points.
- Rating karma: rate as many ideas as fair and diverse as possible and you get your rating karma going.
How do I see which community member rocks the karma list?
Every two weeks we enthrone the new overall King of Karma and the Karma Kings in the three categories. So there is a King of Karma, a King of Ideas, a King of Comments and a King of Ratings. The royal majesties are displayed in the sidebar of the Community overview. The award shows that they are extraordinarily good in their category – for example because the ideas he/she submits are of very high quality.
And what’s coming next?
Of course that’s all still a big secret, but I can tell you this much: karma is going to be even more important and it will open up whole new opportunities for the ones with the most karma… It’s best to start collecting now!
Clay Robinson
Good idea to rate activity. I think the overall high point person should be awarded a Karma Karmannn Ghia!
nick gogerty
Just an FYI, in many structured environments with milestone type rewards higher compliance and goal seeking behaviour is found by priming the pump. For example, give Karme points for filing in a name or something basic, lets people feel they are already on the road to development and progress. then have iterative karma levels and awareness of achievements of others (peer dynamics) are very strong, so that people are aware of karma status.
Jesko
@nick: +20 karma points for your comment ! = ) Interesting that you are so much into it from a professional/theoretical point of view. I just visited your website and you have a new follower now. Nice to have you around. Regards from Berlin! Jesko
thirdbase
#to establish the “thumb up” button wasn’t a bad idea indeed.
but this tool is not really in use … ???
perhaps we should use the rearranging of the karma-rating, to put more focus on it???
my idea is, that the idea-owner is able to colour the comments in green, if he think the comment is helpful.
#the evaluation of the rating-behavior should be a subjective value.
it will be not easy to rate the rating-behavior.
there are many parameters that should be considered.
so … not easy … but a really really good tool to raise the vote-quantity and quality.
#good job jovotos
Betacup: a small update
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frieda
Hey y’all,
thanks for your thoughts and for the support!
The karma adjustments so far have only been the beginning of a longer-termed development. We’ll work on making karma more visible and on including other factors as well (thanks for the input, @nick gogerty).
@thirdbase: I agree. the thums-up button didn’t get the attention it deserves so far. I hope that the raised attention for karma will also put more focus on this feature. Using it effectively will also help… I’ll make you the official thumbs-up-ambassador
thirdbase
thumb up, frieda!
please send me a too a warm, small island with web-connection.
i don’t need a big residence.
but i need a ambassador-sash and a cool hat, please…..
i would love to go swimming with it.
huuuu i love this job by now !!!
best regards
thirdbase
frieda
I am afraid the only available position at the moment is in Novosibirsk. Do you like ice-fishing? Other vacancies could open up soonish. However, I might have forgotten your name by then. Would help if I could make a reminder in, say, a brandnew iphone? You have my address?
thirdbase
not yet
frieda
dreidour
Hi people, I think this is not the right place for this question, however… How many karma points I must collect for enter private contests?
Will I receive some karma points with this message?
Kenny Arnold
How do you know how much Karma to give?
Frieda
Hi dreidour,
read more about how to collect karma points here: http://support.jovoto.com/faqs/karma/how-can-i-collect-karma
You find nformation about how to enter Private Contests here: http://support.jovoto.com/faqs/contests/can-i-participate-in-public-and-private-contests