Hmm, I just posted <a href="http://userscripts.org/forums/3/topics/9?page=11#posts-15880">this</a> to the spam section having not seen this topic, but I'd recommend looking at <a href="http://kuro5hin.org">Kuro5hin</a> and <a href="http://slashdot.org">Slashdot</a>. Slashdot is overtly simplistic because they need to handle the massive load that their readership generates, whereas Kuro5hin does cool things like letting you suggest scores directly and then averaging the suggested scores (rather than giving users an occasional +1/-1 swing). As to karma - Slashdot has a great karma system (for its purposes) formulated around the net modification to your posts' scores plus 3 times the number of published articles you've submitted. The user must also have been active for a month or so. With karma >25, posts start at a +1. Since moderation is chosen randomly from the user base, higher-karma users do not moderate more strongly (under an averaging system like Kuro5hin, there is no default score. high-karma users could have their votes double-counted ... I don't know anything about Kuro5hin's karma system). Recall that most of slashdot's readership is not logged in; anonymous posts start at 0 points (instead of 1 or 2), and only users get the chance to moderate. Userscripts.org might have a different set of thresholds for karma that might dictate multiple levels. I'd think something like for every ten installs of your scripts, you get a point (up to 15) and your net post ratings also applies (not counting karma bonuses!) with <s>no upper limit</s> (update 10/8: there MUST be an upper limit, or a karma whore (see below) can safely post trash. The upper limit should be 1.5x to 2x the higest threshold, so 30-40, and don't publish the number!). Karma thresholds could then be 0, 5, and 20 for "green user/scriptwright," "junior user/scriptwright," and "veteran user/scriptright" (or whatever you'd like to call them). Timing thresholds would be something like one month for Junior and one year for Veteran. A script author commenting on his/her own script (or the topic-starting user) should be treated as veteran for that topic. Greens would not be able to moderate and would post at a default score of 0, Juniors would be able to moderate (+1/-1) and would post at a default score of 1, and Veterans would be able to moderate twice as strong (+2/-2) and would post at a default score of 2. This should not be implemented verbatim ... lots of consideration will be needed here. An averaging system would have to have higher thresholds. Also note, Slashdot allows you to opt out of your karma bonus on a single post, though I'm not sure how wise that is. Rating scripts might prove useful too. I'd probably treat them as comments (1x), maybe 2x. Rated scripts should almost certainly be by averages. In that case, with a +1/-1 comment scoring system, the weighting takes care of itself (since a 1/5 script isn't so great, but we don't want to penalize you for it, and a 5/5 script would be +4 points, which is fine by me). Hmm, I just posted <a href="http://userscripts.org/forums/3/topics/9?page=11#posts-15880">this</a> to the spam section having not seen this topic, but I'd recommend looking at <a href="http://kuro5hin.org">Kuro5hin</a> and <a href="http://slashdot.org">Slashdot</a>. Slashdot is overtly simplistic because they need to handle the massive load that their readership generates, whereas Kuro5hin does cool things like letting you suggest scores directly and then averaging the suggested scores (rather than giving users an occasional +1/-1 swing).As to karma - Slashdot has a great karma system (for its purposes) formulated around the net modification to your posts' scores plus 3 times the number of published articles you've submitted. The user must also have been active for a month or so. With karma >25, posts start at a +1. Since moderation is chosen randomly from the user base, higher-karma users do not moderate more strongly (under an averaging system like Kuro5hin, there is no default score. high-karma users could have their votes double-counted ... I don't know anything about Kuro5hin's karma system). Recall that most of slashdot's readership is not logged in; anonymous posts start at 0 points (instead of 1 or 2), and only users get the chance to moderate.Userscripts.org might have a different set of thresholds for karma that might dictate multiple levels. I'd think something like for every ten installs of your scripts, you get a point (up to 15) and your net post ratings also applies (not counting karma bonuses!) with <s>no upper limit</s> (update 10/8: there MUST be an upper limit, or a karma whore (see below) can safely post trash. The upper limit should be 1.5x to 2x the higest threshold, so 30-40, and don't publish the number!). Karma thresholds could then be 0, 5, and 20 for "green user/scriptwright," "junior user/scriptwright," and "veteran user/scriptright" (or whatever you'd like to call them). Timing thresholds would be something like one month for Junior and one year for Veteran. A script author commenting on his/her own script (or the topic-starting user) should be treated as veteran for that topic. Greens would not be able to moderate and would post at a default score of 0, Juniors would be able to moderate (+1/-1) and would post at a default score of 1, and Veterans would be able to moderate twice as strong (+2/-2) and would post at a default score of 2. This should not be implemented verbatim ... lots of consideration will be needed here. An averaging system would have to have higher thresholds. Also note, Slashdot allows you to opt out of your karma bonus on a single post, though I'm not sure how wise that is.Rating scripts might prove useful too. I'd probably treat them as comments (1x), maybe 2x. Rated scripts should almost certainly be by averages. In that case, with a +1/-1 comment scoring system, the weighting takes care of itself (since a 1/5 script isn't so great, but we don't want to penalize you for it, and a 5/5 script would be +4 points, which is fine by me).

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