Welcome to the official @Experimental release of @Karma! Many of you are already familiar with how karma systems work elsewhere, but CSST's Discord Karma has a few features that I think are worth noting.
- Karma Ratio
- Karmic Zero
- Karma Bonuses
- Karma Streaks
- Karma Strength
- Karma Decay
- Prestige Mode
- Karma Ranking
- Karma Stats
The @Karma system will work on the basic concept of a Karma Ratio. When you recieve upvotes and downvotes, both values are stored and your Karma Level becomes a ratio of these two values. Essentially what this means is that instead of having a Karma Level of 3 or 10, you will have levels like 2.9 and 6.2. This also means that there are no soft caps or hard caps on the level of Karma you can reach and there is no set amount of upvotes required for each Karma level.
Represents the lowest Karma Level a user can have. Since your Karma Level is a ratio, this number can obviously not be the literal value of 0 because that would be stupid. Instead, Karmic Zero for Discord Karma is 0.01. This means that in order to achieve a Karma Level of 1, you need at least 100 upvotes. This might sound like a lot, but the next few features will balance this out. The starting level for users of the @Karma system is 0.03.
The @Karma system's way of feeding the masses. Every 10 upvotes or downvotes you recieve on a message will add a kind of multiplier to future votes. The multiplier is currently base 2 meaning: after the first 10 votes, every additional vote will count twice, after the next 10 they will count 4 times. Note this applies to the number of voters and not the vote values themselves. Achieving a 4x karma bonus requires at least 20 people to vote the same way on your message.
The @Karma system's way of praising helpful users and punishing repeat offenders. Just like the name suggests, the @Karma system applies another muliplier to repeated votes across multiple messages. For every message in a row that recieves only upvotes, you will recieve a bonus upvote on your next message. This means that if you send 5 messages and 3 of them are upvoted, your next message will automatically get 3 additional upvotes when it's first upvoted as long as and none of your other 5 messages have been downvoted. The same applies to repeatedly downvoted messages. Note this may eventually change to a system that takes into account the total positivity or negativity of messages.
Simply refers to the value of a particular user's vote. By default, @Visitors are worth 0.2 votes, @Members are worth 1 vote, @Moderators are worth 5 votes, and @Admins are worth 10 votes. Note this may eventually also include your Karma Level as some form of multiplier.
Something like the opposite of Karma Streaks. Every day you will lose 1 upvote from your karma. Every 10 days without an upvote will increase your decay rate by a power of 2. Meaning, over the first 10 days you will lose 1 upvote per day. If you have not recieved an upvote by the 11th day, you will be losing 2 upvotes per day. Then 4 and so on.
Probably the stupidest part of the @Karma system, but I added it anyway. Basically, since there is no cap on your Karma Level the numbers have a slight chance to get out of control. Prestige Mode will allow you to reset your level to Karmic Zero aka 0.01. Since there's no real reason to do this without some kind of incentive, those who prestige will recieve a permanant Karmic Bonus every time they prestige. To unlock this option you have a Karma Level of at least 1. This will reset all your upvotes and downvotes, meaning that if you have a particularly high number of downvotes, you can potentially reach a higher level after Prestige than you could without it.
A pretty straightforward concept. You will be ranked based on your Karma Levels. The top 3 every week will probably get a reward in the future, but for now it's just a friendly scoreboard.
Just a weird feature I tacked on. They track each users use of the @Karma system. Your Karma Level, Karma Strength, Karma Ranking, total upvotes, total downvotes, longest positive streak, longest negative streak, largest karma bonus, smallest karma bonus, Karma Decay Rate, and Presitge Level will all be stored and updated as part of the system. These information is public and can be viewed by any user with the @Karma command.
Methods of dramatically altering a users Karma Level. A positive karma burst will move a user to the next karma level. Meaning if you receive a Karma Burst while at level 1.2 your new level will be 2.0. A negative karma burst will take a user to the previous Karma Level. This means that if you reciece a Karma Burst while at level 3.9, your new level will be 3.0. This is an @Admins only feature that may eventually be extended to @Moderators as well.
Users whose karma level drops below Karmic Zero will be kicked.
@Visitors will become @Members after reaching Karma Level 1!
Questions about the @Karma system can be asked directly of @Karma via DM!
Messages suspected of abusing the system can be tagged with the ☢ emoji!
Any issues or abuse of the Karma system or additional questions should be directed to @shadow via DM!