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| Happy Valentine's Day! - Monday, February 14, 2005 at 10:35 p.m. |
Props out to all you love birds out there. I, myself, have had a wonderful Valentine's eve and day.
Unfortunately, throughout first assignment/midterm season (the past few weeks) I have found myself with little time to blog. Well, I've had the time but not enough to do the research that I wanted. Regular updates will proceed from now on, I promise.
Last Valentine's eve, with my own preparations already set and ready to go, I helped a friend with his. He was in Calgary at the time and would land around 2pm, giving him enough time to pick up some flowers and meet his girlfriend after she got off work. I called the local florist and acted as intermediatary between the florist and my friend, who was talking to me through msn messenger.
Thinking about this and how it relates to my karma system theme, I realized that sites that employ karma had a great flaw that would lessen their appeal: the lack of immediacy and intimacy.
Unlike instant messengers, sites that use karma systems do not care about fast replies. Of course, this can be a good thing in that post qualities would be better and not as shallow as the replies you get from people who are talking to 20 people at once. Then again, it is no guarantee considering all the problems people have with those annoying "first" comments.
And for intimacy, there is no doubt that people can become well known on the site for excellent posts or whatnot. A good example of this would be Mr. Chop-Logik From SE who has the whopping karma score of 393. However, as far as private, tete a tete conversations go, websites are not exactly the best place for it. On forums, there are private messages, and some site may provide similar services. For larger sites with a bigger following, though, an internal mailing system might just be one big unnecessary hassle.
Of course, I'm merely talking about karma systems for website postings and comments. This website as well as slashdot's FAQ explains the original conception of karma systems. It was meant to act as a regulating tool that has the peers moderate the comments made for each post. SE (as noted in a previous post) took this system one step further in allowing its members to make website posts themselves and used the karma system to regulate that. A simple, but powerful step as it liberated the members and allowed the website to flourish and become was it is now. Possibly, in the future, the karma system could be adapted and applied to chat rooms and from there...further innovations will allow it peer regulate other things (maybe even the whole internet!)
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Cheers,
MrScaryMuffin |
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