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Title: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 12, 2011, 12:07:50 am
As the title says i aint done nothing wrong but recon i'm blaming yoof and haysey you smiting bastards
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: cheys03 on March 12, 2011, 12:47:42 am
I've popped it back up twice now..! Three's the limit ;-)
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 12, 2011, 12:57:23 am
Ah thank you just up'd yours think we should be aplauding buddys lol
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: chris2911 on March 12, 2011, 05:30:20 pm

though id applaud you for the good transaction
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: kayl0rz on March 12, 2011, 08:02:10 pm
smited for wingin
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 12, 2011, 09:20:36 pm

though id applaud you for the good transaction
Applauded you for applauding me lol
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 12, 2011, 09:21:56 pm
smited for wingin
n you should know better lol hows your g coming on got some g bits for sale
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: hayesey on March 12, 2011, 10:57:13 pm
If it was me you'd be minus a million
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: cheys03 on March 13, 2011, 12:20:43 am
If it was me you'd be minus a million
Going on 'vwmk3jon's karma I thought it's a 16bit limit? ;)
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: hayesey on March 13, 2011, 08:37:15 am
I'd change the database field just for grant so his could be minus a million
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: cheys03 on March 13, 2011, 09:53:19 am
Ha!
Do you feel the love Grant?
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 13, 2011, 10:34:08 am
Lol yeah haysey's just mad because he woke up with bread all round the entrance to his tent at the polo show last year. I think someone was trying to get the geese to go in his tent while he was sleeping of the booze from the night before  ;D
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: cheys03 on March 13, 2011, 02:22:29 pm
^ love it! brilliant!
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 13, 2011, 06:15:54 pm
How you getting on with the hella grill i hope the lamps are still intact took me years to get round to selling it. Just in the process of turboing my loon now 
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: cheys03 on March 13, 2011, 06:17:28 pm
Very well thanks mate. The torx-headed screws were a stroke of genius! Made things much easier, thanks.
What's made you go down the turbo route? Looked like nothing was wrong with your charger setup?
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 13, 2011, 06:32:39 pm
More power really and reliability plus alot easyier to work on.
There's alot of plus points really after the initial expence.
Very well thanks mate. The torx-headed screws were a stroke of genius! Made things much easier, thanks.
What's made you go down the turbo route? Looked like nothing was wrong with your charger setup?
The torx head screws were not my genius they were volvo's lol
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: vwmk3jon on March 13, 2011, 09:23:06 pm
If it was me you'd be minus a million
Going on 'vwmk3jon's karma I thought it's a 16bit limit? ;)

yeah but they like to abuse me  ??? :-[
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: gavin.starr on March 14, 2011, 03:47:57 pm
I don't get all this karma stuff, I haven't been on this owners club very long and mine is at minus 3 ?
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 14, 2011, 04:04:51 pm
I don't get all this karma stuff, I haven't been on this owners club very long and mine is at minus 3 ?
Just bumped you up 1
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: vwmk3jon on March 15, 2011, 03:27:32 pm
Its just pointless fun apparently??!! Hmmmmmmm
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: gavin.starr on March 15, 2011, 03:56:04 pm
I don't get all this karma stuff, I haven't been on this owners club very long and mine is at minus 3 ?
Just bumped you up 1

Bumped me up or shot me down :D
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 15, 2011, 04:27:13 pm
Applauded you lol and again
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: hayesey on March 15, 2011, 04:31:21 pm
someone keeps smiting me :D
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 15, 2011, 04:34:00 pm
someone keeps smiting me :D

I've applauded you for helping me with the fuel lines it'll be robin the cockle picker whos smiting you
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: hayesey on March 15, 2011, 04:47:38 pm
yeah it probably is.  Or there's a few people on here who seem to get far too wound up about karma, like it actually means anything in real life.
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: vwmk3jon on March 15, 2011, 05:01:45 pm
I just wanna know why youve adjusted mine to be stupid high? Not exactly funny tbh. You may have a simple life.........
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: hayesey on March 15, 2011, 05:12:43 pm
I haven't.... I wish you'd stop saying I have when I keep telling you I haven't
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: DKnight on March 15, 2011, 05:19:53 pm
ive now reset your karma to 0


fresh start and all that, the karma does have its purpose more for when people are helpful or not, i do smite people when they ask silly things or reply with silly replies, and on that note, i have now smited you jon

but technically i have unsmitted you 65400 times or something ;)
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: hayesey on March 15, 2011, 05:20:37 pm
Jon's life is now complete and order is restored to the universe.
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 15, 2011, 05:24:26 pm
Why does mine keep going down
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: DKnight on March 15, 2011, 05:25:23 pm
because people keep smiting you, i smited you for that silly question :D
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 15, 2011, 06:18:16 pm
because people keep smiting you, i smited you for that silly question :D
Lol tbh i thught that may cause me to loose another point for saying that
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: DKnight on March 16, 2011, 09:49:43 am
i now applaud you for your realisation of your mistake ;D
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: vwmk3jon on March 16, 2011, 06:57:27 pm
So I asked 65000 stupid questions? Must be getting old coz I cant remember that many!!
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: SamG40 on March 16, 2011, 08:58:22 pm
Seriously Jon if this is all you have to worry about in your life then you are blessed!
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: Yoof on March 16, 2011, 10:04:52 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__N6goPr1GCY/TNLD8Hl35bI/AAAAAAAAADg/xRRTH0jUpec/s1600/Karma.png)

 ;D
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: MartinB on March 16, 2011, 10:40:46 pm
So I asked 65000 stupid questions? Must be getting old coz I cant remember that many!!

smited for being EMO.
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: vwmk3jon on March 16, 2011, 10:54:10 pm
Well if you can't ask questions on a forum then whats the point you twats?

Clubpolo mk2 is here :lol:
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: SamG40 on March 16, 2011, 11:03:51 pm
Nice attitude. Do you really need to ask why you keep getting smited.
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: DKnight on March 17, 2011, 09:13:05 am
why did you just call everyone twats?

Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: hayesey on March 17, 2011, 09:20:52 am
Jon - fucking grow up
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 17, 2011, 08:45:31 pm
This thread should be a sticky so if anyone wants to know why there karma has changed they will be able to read it a know not to ask lol
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: scotsjohn on March 18, 2011, 12:00:57 pm
Just do what other people on here do, drive by smiting. A good while back when my karma was a mere -6, I saw it change to -7. It was the wee small hours and the only people online were Dan Knight and two others I can't remember. Now I hadn't been putting my foot in it for some time so wouldn't have expected any alterations. A couple of weeks ago, on the dizzy limit of -10, I noticed my Karma had gone up ??? to -9. Again, even as I watched, it went back to -10. I had a look at who was online and there was Volkov, Alex, Hardchargin and once again, Dan Knight. I'm not a gambler, but odds of 5/2 against Dan smiting me look pretty good, so I'm smiting Dan now( I see I'm not alone) just in the passing. After all, it's just a bit of fun isn't it ?
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: PeteG40 on March 18, 2011, 12:06:54 pm
its actually an option of turning it off.

It works like a restaurant or holiday review. 

If its bad you tell everyone - good you tell a few people.

with karma, if you help people out you very occasionally get an applaud, do something stupid like ask how to bolt a turbo on a 1litre and you get smited to death!
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: scotsjohn on March 18, 2011, 12:24:06 pm
Seems like we're going in circles with this one Pete; the theory's excellent, but it's open to petty abuse. Should be a smite log of some sort, but then it all gets too complex.
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: hayesey on March 18, 2011, 12:36:53 pm
it's just meant to be a bit of silly fun, I think we'll probably end up turning it off since people seem to be mistaking it for something that actually matters.
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: scotsjohn on March 18, 2011, 04:13:28 pm
It should be a good idea; people who are giving out sound info/being helpful etc. could be recognised by their karma. So I'd be happy with it if their were no individual applauds or smites; maybe a collective action(five or ten to register in any one thread) before anyone got +-.
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: cheys03 on March 18, 2011, 07:42:06 pm
Good point. On a large forum it makes sense to have the ability to 'grade' users by their knowledge, helpfulness and contribution to the club. Also a reputation can be built when buying/selling parts.
On a forum this size though, IMO it's easy to become familiar with the users and identify the good from the bad. For buying/selling there's both the company and user feedback sections. Karma is largely irrelevant and certainly not to be taken to heart - after all not everything is easily communicable on-line and people can get the wrong end of the stick.
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 19, 2011, 12:06:24 am
Its all fun and games until someone looses a karma point lol  ;D
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: DKnight on March 19, 2011, 12:58:45 am
Ha! Me and Haysey had this conversation as i wondered who was smiting me, and saw you had done me twice, and then checked your posts and thought, i actually have no idea who this is? or why he is smiting me????

If you look i am online most of the time as i leave my computer on most of the time.

Crazy logic you have, and then you follow it up saying it is good in theory but open to petty abuse, you are doing exactly that tho

like cheys says, it does not really have a purpose on this forum

For the record i have smited you for your silly assumptions, and then in the next hour i will smite you for smiting me for no reason, even tho you owe me about 3 or 4 applauds by looks of it.

Just do what other people on here do, drive by smiting. A good while back when my karma was a mere -6, I saw it change to -7. It was the wee small hours and the only people online were Dan Knight and two others I can't remember. Now I hadn't been putting my foot in it for some time so wouldn't have expected any alterations. A couple of weeks ago, on the dizzy limit of -10, I noticed my Karma had gone up ??? to -9. Again, even as I watched, it went back to -10. I had a look at who was online and there was Volkov, Alex, Hardchargin and once again, Dan Knight. I'm not a gambler, but odds of 5/2 against Dan smiting me look pretty good, so I'm smiting Dan now( I see I'm not alone) just in the passing. After all, it's just a bit of fun isn't it ?
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: scotsjohn on March 19, 2011, 11:06:49 am
Odds of 5/2 against isn't crazy logic Dan. Man up and get your act together.
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: DKnight on March 19, 2011, 01:07:07 pm
im trying to figure out if you are serious or joking?

I hope you aint a gambling man because you would have just lost your bet
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: scotsjohn on March 19, 2011, 07:51:25 pm
Perfectly serious Dan. Your in the frame in two very tight groups of people when I've had a smite. What happens when you get a smite or two? you go to Haysey Bibble,Bibble,Bibble,Paul someone's smiting me. Other folk have the balls to come on the forum and challenge what they see as unwarranted smiting. Your response, when I say I'm smiting you is to say is that my action's illogical and threaten to smite me. Carry on mate, all that's happening here is that anyone looking at this forum will think we are a bunch of juveniles.   
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: DKnight on March 19, 2011, 08:03:07 pm
dude

i never smited you in the first place, i have no idea who you are.

I saw my level drop and was curious as to why, so i asked haysey if there was any way of tracking it, and it came up with you smiting me.

I didnt cry at him, i just asked, when he said it was you, then i asked the question, why on earth is he smiting me?

Didnt think anything of it, but at least now i know you were smiting me for your own bizarre reason.

Im still amazed you are arguing this out, you are clearly in the wrong.

before you reply


"I DID NOT SMITE YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE"
(just anticipating your reply)



Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 19, 2011, 08:24:16 pm
Perfectly serious Dan. Your in the frame in two very tight groups of people when I've had a smite. What happens when you get a smite or two? you go to Haysey Bibble,Bibble,Bibble,Paul someone's smiting me. Other folk have the balls to come on the forum and challenge what they see as unwarranted smiting. Your response, when I say I'm smiting you is to say is that my action's illogical and threaten to smite me. Carry on mate, all that's happening here is that anyone looking at this forum will think we are a bunch of juveniles.  
WTF are you stressing for can you not read that karma is a bit of fun think your the one thats being a juvenile for throwing your toys out of your cot about it
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: scotsjohn on March 20, 2011, 09:27:00 pm
As you said yourself Grant, " it's all a bit of fun till someone looses a Karma point". What I don't like about it though is when someone wants to know why they are being smited and they get smited for asking the question; pretty juvenile. People get smited for being stupid when they are only niaive and as Cheys03 points out, there's a lot of "lost in translation" scenarios where unwarranted smiting creeps in. I personally feel that far too many people are into smiting for all the wrong reasons. I feel it disrupts what is a pretty good forum and most of all I feel that Moderaters shouldn't be involved in it. As you can see they don't like it either. Time it went. Is it worth a vote?
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: hayesey on March 21, 2011, 01:41:16 pm
right it's gone, life is too short for this bullshit. 

Now you will have to find something else to stress about for no apparent reason :D
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 21, 2011, 05:47:14 pm
Haysey i'm gonna start stressing about your sunroof plate still being priered get it painted
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: jez1272gt on March 21, 2011, 07:39:45 pm
i would like to thank all the people envolved in this thread topic - it has made me chuckle for the last 2 minutes!
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: grantvw on March 21, 2011, 08:06:36 pm
It is my main aim in life to make people laugh  ;D
Title: Re: Why has my Karma gone down
Post by: ereeiz on March 22, 2011, 12:56:39 pm
Now I can safely ask how you bolt a turbo on a 1litre  ;D lol