Refusing Karma

Page 1 of 1

You cannot start a new topic
You cannot reply to this topic

Refusing Karma

#1 dusk

Member

Group: Members
Posts: 414
Joined: 05-October 02

Posted 04 November 2002 - 04:09 AM

I recently received a karma point from Avatara, but do I deserve it? In my opion, no. Sixty Six posts, I've been here for hardly any time at all.
I realise in saying this is pretty much the same as arguing with a moderator, which would, inevitably, stuff up the whole moderator / karma system.
Is it ok to refuse karma?
What are your thoughts on the situation?

------------------
Yesterday we bent our necks to emperors and kings. Today, we kneel only to truth. -Kahil Gibran

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth..."

#2 Bryce

Open-Source Fan

Group: Members
Posts: 1,714
Joined: 08-August 01
Gender:Male
Location:California

Posted 04 November 2002 - 09:31 AM

Don't rock the boat. (I should talk Posted Image

)

And, take a look at Heidel. [url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Heidel"]http://www.AmbrosiaS...UserName=Heidel[/url]
46 posts, 9 karma. Cool, yes?

I got my first karma point (And second) not to far from your post count (And time on the boards), and so did many other members. It just seems a little unusual from the point of view of other boards. So, enjoy your karma point, you probobly deserve it. And, if you don't want it, you can redeem it for one free flame or spam on a strict board. Posted Image

[This message has been edited by Bryce (edited 11-04-2002).]

"Programming is an art form that fights back."

www.magnatune.com - Magnatune: Internet record label. Wide selection of music in MP3, flac, ogg: no DRM. Legal. Artists get 50% of your money.

#3 Slayer

EX-Moderator

Group: Members
Posts: 1,109
Joined: 13-September 99

Posted 04 November 2002 - 11:39 AM

You may have only been here a short time, Dusk, but you've done an excellent job so far. Your karma is deserved.

------------------
Slayer's guide to Cythera:
[url="http://"http://www.macclassics.com/cythera/cythera.htm"]http://www.macclassi...era/cythera.htm[/url]

Slayer's guide to Cythera:
http://russell.stanb...ide/cythera.htm

#4 Rogan

Lurker supreme

Group: Members
Posts: 1,223
Joined: 16-June 00
Gender:Male
Location:Cademia, Mother City

Posted 04 November 2002 - 01:04 PM

I agree Dusk, your karma is deserved. For helping-and trying to help-people and being a positive and contributing member of this board.

------------------
Some people say war doesn't solve anything... perhaps they're using the wrong strategy...

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room.

#5 forge

Authority On Irony

Group: Members
Posts: 10,685
Joined: 11-January 00
Gender:Male

Posted 04 November 2002 - 01:19 PM

<pirate voice> Yar! You'll take ye karma and like it, else we'll feed ye to the fishes! Yar! </pirate voice>

Now I'll watch the Cythera mods freak when they see I posted here. Posted Image

------------------
Bleeding Is Breathing

10/31/96

#6 Jericon

Original-bie

Group: Moderators
Posts: 2,130
Joined: 13-January 00
Gender:Male
Location:SF Bay Area

Posted 04 November 2002 - 01:22 PM

[quote]Originally posted by forge:

Now I'll watch the Cythera mods freak when they see I posted here.

-J

------------------
"Being a Mac user is like being a Navy Seal: a small, elite group of people with access to the most sophisticated technology in the world, who everyone calls on to get the really tough jobs done quickly and efficiently."

Being a Mac user is like being a Navy Seal: a small, elite group of people with access to the most sophisticated technology in the world, who everyone calls on to get the really tough jobs done quickly and efficiently.

#7 Bryce

Open-Source Fan

Group: Members
Posts: 1,714
Joined: 08-August 01
Gender:Male
Location:California

Posted 04 November 2002 - 01:54 PM

Stop razzing us or I'll see that Obsidian posts another 'karma report' on the EVN board. Muahahah. Posted Image

------------------
In general, what exactly makes a game good isn't that easily
quantified - perhaps the absense of things that make it bad? - Words of Wisdom from Glenn Andreas

Where do you want to [url="http://"http://www.macclassics.com/cythera/tricks/rJade.htm"]teleport[/url] today?

"Programming is an art form that fights back."

www.magnatune.com - Magnatune: Internet record label. Wide selection of music in MP3, flac, ogg: no DRM. Legal. Artists get 50% of your money.

#8 dusk

Member

Group: Members
Posts: 414
Joined: 05-October 02

Posted 04 November 2002 - 05:43 PM

Quote

Originally posted by forge:
<pirate voice> Yar! You'll take ye karma and like it, else we'll feed ye to the fishes! Yar! </pirate voice>

*cowering* Yes oh mighty moderator!

Wait a second, I bet you can't find deep enough water... Posted Image

------------------
Yesterday we bent our necks to emperors and kings. Today, we kneel only to truth. -Kahil Gibran

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth..."

#9 forge

Authority On Irony

Group: Members
Posts: 10,685
Joined: 11-January 00
Gender:Male

Posted 04 November 2002 - 05:51 PM

Quote

Originally posted by dusk:
*cowering* Yes oh mighty moderator!

Wait a second, I bet you can't find deep enough water...

Water doesn't have to be that deep to feed you to carnivorous fish. Hell, there's less area for you to swim if it's only 20 feet deep or so.

------------------
Bleeding Is Breathing

10/31/96

#10 Moonshadow

Member

Group: Members
Posts: 665
Joined: 21-October 00
Gender:Female

Posted 04 November 2002 - 05:57 PM

Quote

Originally posted by dusk:
I recently received a karma point from Avatara, but do I deserve it?

You do. It's not about how long you've been here, it's about what you're doing here. You deserved a Karma point for those posts in the Tavern (I don't think I ever told youI liked the way you had Moonshadow act, did I?).
I also think you deserve to be slapped for complaining (for no reason whatsoever that I can see), though. Posted Image

Quote

Is it ok to refuse karma?

Basically, yes, I suppose, if the Karma point is undeserved. Which, in this case, it isn't.

Quote

What are your thoughts on the situation?

See above.

------------------
Ich weiß wohl, ich bin nur ein Träumer, der vielleicht eines Morgens erwacht. Doch ich spotte dem Tag und ich folge dem Stern und ich lass mich entführen in die Nacht...
- Silk & Lute

I do not suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

#11 Moonshadow

Member

Group: Members
Posts: 665
Joined: 21-October 00
Gender:Female

Posted 04 November 2002 - 06:04 PM

[quote]Originally posted by dusk:

Wait a second, I bet you can't find deep enough water...

------------------
Ich weiß wohl, ich bin nur ein Träumer, der vielleicht eines Morgens erwacht. Doch ich spotte dem Tag und ich folge dem Stern und ich lass mich entführen in die Nacht...
- Silk & Lute

I do not suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

#12 dusk

Member

Group: Members
Posts: 414
Joined: 05-October 02

Posted 04 November 2002 - 07:33 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Moonshadow:

I also think you deserve to be slapped for complaining (for no reason whatsoever that I can see), though.

A slapping? That'd suit me just fine! Heh. Since everyone here thinks I deserve the karma I'll stop complaining.

------------------
Yesterday we bent our necks to emperors and kings. Today, we kneel only to truth. -Kahil Gibran

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth..."

#13 dusk

Member

Group: Members
Posts: 414
Joined: 05-October 02

Posted 04 November 2002 - 07:36 PM

Quote

Originally posted by forge:
Water doesn't have to be that deep to feed you to carnivorous fish. Hell, there's less area for you to swim if it's only 20 feet deep or so.

Sorry forge, it was a bad Cythera joke. A particular bug means that you can't go fishing because "The water isn't deep enough".

------------------
Yesterday we bent our necks to emperors and kings. Today, we kneel only to truth. -Kahil Gibran

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth..."

#14 Mr. Somebody

The Member

Group: Members
Posts: 560
Joined: 13-February 02
Gender:Male
Location:West

Posted 04 November 2002 - 09:17 PM

Oooooh, that's worse than some of mine!

------------------
Early one morning, late one night, two dead boys arose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. The deaf man heard the noise and came, and killed the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.

"Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to make people smile." -Justice Anthony Kennedy, Campbell v. Acuff (2005)

"Haul your ass, Harry, but haul it slowly, or you'll sink the damn boat." -George Washington

Barbarian Films

#15 Avatara

Guardian

Group: Moderators
Posts: 12,036
Joined: 05-July 00
Gender:Male

Posted 04 November 2002 - 10:07 PM

Quote

Originally posted by dusk:
Sorry forge, it was a bad Cythera joke. A particular bug means that you can't go fishing because "The water isn't deep enough".

Its almost lame enough to grant you your wish. Posted Image

------------------
"There is a time and a place for everything."

"Sometimes I get confused whether I'm posting on ATT or in the War Room. But then I remind myself: If it's moderators acting scatter-brained and foolish, then it's the War Room*.

*Unless it's Avatara, of course."
-- From the memoirs of Sundered Angel

#16 dusk

Member

Group: Members
Posts: 414
Joined: 05-October 02

Posted 05 November 2002 - 12:18 AM

Hee hee.
*fumbles around for 'cool' joke book*
A few of these and I'll be permanently off the boards...

------------------
Yesterday we bent our necks to emperors and kings. Today, we kneel only to truth. -Kahil Gibran

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth..."

#17 idiotSavant

Odysseus

Group: Members
Posts: 723
Joined: 20-December 00
Location:New York

Posted 05 November 2002 - 12:20 AM

[quote]Originally posted by Avatara:
Its almost lame enough to grant you your wish.

------------------
Siena College- Like Yale, only not!
"Anything is possible, except skiing through a revolving door."

I am not your rolling wheels / I am the highway / I am not your carpet ride / I am the sky / I am not your blowing wind / I am the lightning / I am not your autumn moon / I am the night

#18 Theo Nean Donly

Member

Group: Members
Posts: 439
Joined: 27-August 00
Location:Out of Darkness, Out of Mind

Posted 05 November 2002 - 02:14 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Moonshadow:
(I don't think I ever told youI liked the way you had Moonshadow act, did I?).

Precisly what I had tried to mention before. Dusk, you've been here for almost no time (relatively speaking), but treat the board and the characters in it as one of those that has been here since the beginning. I think it touched all of us. Heck, if I had been a mod, I probably would have given you a point on your second post (and no, I don't think I'm not a mod because of such things like that. Only once before have I thought this of someone).

If these retorts are at all biting, I didn't think I deserved my karma points either. And I still don't. I feel especially bad that I have them when I have barely been here for the last year. Posted Image

------------------
"Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen! ... Nai elyë hiruva. Namárië!"
The One And Only:
[url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard/Forum5/HTML/000506.html"]~Theo Nean Donly~[/url]

"I don't need a plan, just a goal. The rest will follow on its own"
- Magic: the Gathering, "Temper"

The One And Only
~Theo Nean Donly~

#19 dusk

Member

Group: Members
Posts: 414
Joined: 05-October 02

Posted 05 November 2002 - 04:10 PM

Thanks,

.
I've only seen a little of your posts Theo, and as far as I can see, you deserve your karma. No need to sigh, and I doubt anyone will slap you.

------------------
Yesterday we bent our necks to emperors and kings. Today, we kneel only to truth. -Kahil Gibran

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth..."

#20 no_use_for_a_name

Formerly known as your mum

Group: Members
Posts: 2,216
Joined: 25-October 02
Gender:Male

Posted 08 November 2002 - 03:25 PM

Quote

Originally posted by forge:
<pirate voice> Yar! You'll take ye karma and like it, else we'll feed ye to the fishes! Yar! </pirate voice>

This is cythera. One of the best bits of the game(in my opinion) is going to the west coast and beating the hell out of the ruffians./me casts magical arrow on forge (did that sound nerdy? What do I care)
dusk: Yes you deserve Karma. Everyone does(well....) Almost 50 posts in a month! How do you make over 2000 posts though? With diffuculty!

------------------
I don't know what weapons the third world war will be faught with, but the Fourth World war will be faught with sticks and stones-Albert Einstien
.Upcoming website, [url="http://"http://ww.evula.org/godsunderstudy"]http://ww.evula.org/godsunderstudy[/url] for the New Era plug.
I is wanta being learning engisck.

#21 cache22

Lord of the Chrons

Group: Members
Posts: 1,255
Joined: 05-September 01
Gender:Male
Location:The Land of the Long White Cloud

Posted 10 November 2002 - 01:19 PM

This is a bit belated, since I've been away, but I agree with everybody else - your posts have been excellent, and the karma point is well deserved.

------------------
Nothing good ever comes from secrets and lies

"The e-mail of the specious is deadlier than their mail" - Tom Holt, 'Snow White and the Seven Samurai'