What in the world is this new karma thing?

You can raise or lower someones karma, its like a status thing, shows how liked/unliked they are.

Get your karma up and nothing bad can happen to you, irl!

but you could end up loathed by everyone on the forums ;)

Its just a fun little system to see who is actually contributing to the community, and who is logging in every day just to insult (chooses random name) manbreakfast.

Remember, kids. The more karma you have, the bigger your...

Yeah.

;)

i like karma 0, just cus 0 is a fun number

PEOPLE DON"T LIKE MEWAAAAA

So can you just mark peoples karma down for no reason or is there some standard for it?

well, the forum went down and took out most of the mods with it. You did have to enter a reason but that does not seem to be working at the moment.
You can only modify the karma of someone who created a thread (but that also seems to be not working).

If you like what someone posted (be it funny, insightful, useful, or just randomly) you can increase their karma. If they are just whining and generally being stupid, you mark them down for it by lowering their karma. Its effectively just a way showing who is adding to the community, and who to trust.

O.K thanks. I was just wondering why my karma was - because i dont remember posting anything stupid or whiny.