I fear I would end up with a negative score.

dude who would want to give you negative karma?

You cant be serious... Now if this were EA and you were CEO there...then you might end up with negative karma. Then again if this was EA i would not be making a comment like this as you would never have shown yourself on the forums.

Though negative karma has it's place, probably, i think it would be abused far more than positive karma has or too much. I mean look at KP, he has over 30 karma and that just can't be right....

-It is safe to say that not everyone who deems your post as useful will grant you positive karma.
-It is also safe to say that every person you annoy with your post will give you negative karma.

Adding negative karma onto the list would just lead to seeing who has the negative number closest to zero...I for one would be in triple digits I'm sure. I'm not always as civil as I preach to be.

Don't worry, i'm sure that in the nearly 2 1/2 years that i have been a regular on this site i have caused enough grief that a line will form to neg me should it be implemented.....
We'll have our own -100 club and not let the mere annoying join...you must be truly a thorn in someone's side to gain entry...

like me

It will end up being used as a "weapon" in flame wars. People think more before giving any kind of Positive view - on anything. The flip side is people in general get Negative at the drop of a hat, and for trivial reasons. It would be abused and become a nightmare.

Regards
Zy

you get negative karma for being ticked at absolutely no campaign, griping about boring map after boring map because even though you can design a massive 547 planet(oid) map based around 32 Rogue Stars with numerous wormholes, pirate bases, numerous npc factions, etc... There are no events other than random AI missions to destroy other AI stuff or give stuff to them and the ever annoying pirate raids that damn near everyone turns off -apparently that part works just fine.

Yes, I have an OMFG huge Freelancer map -but SINS came with no campaign or campaign editor, just galaxy forge and modding. Sadly, no amount of content makes up for the lack of campaign/campaign-editor. SINS overall is a nice engine to make good Fraps of the stuff you make and revel in the skirmishes set to impressive music.

So much for +1 karma.

Damn, I was hoping nobody would notice. So now the "Doom Rays for Karma" scandal must come out!  Karma-Gate?   

Sentient species taste better...

Karma-Gate... Hmmm can an emperor be indicted?

Karma Gate - dude you just made my day and its only 8:20 AM.

But I'll testify for you. I mean, you gave me my one and only little tiny karma point. I can be bought.


Anyway... I agree that it would be abused. Honestly, sometimes people deserve a bit of a slap on the wrist for their posts / responses, but then they'd give negative karma to who ever set them straight.

No, holding ultimate power over the state precludes that. Being deposed and executed is another matter entirely though...

Sentient species taste better...

A couple other ideas for karma:

1. The ability to see who it was from. Some of us have taken to "signing" our karma messages, so that people can do this.

2. Be able to to see how much karma you've given out, and who you've given it to.

Sentient species taste better...

3. A message in the karma window telling you # of characters used/allowed. Apparently there is a ~253 character limit.

~looks around at the slack-jawed crowd~ WHAT? I like to find out how to break things.

How about this...

Inorder to give someone Bad_Karma , you first need to generate Good_Karma , like ammunition.