Silly idea: What if there was Fluther Karma to balance Fluther Lurve?

Not that we need more lurve shenanigans… but I think we’ve all seen that folks get hung up on lurve, how it’s awarded inconsistently, and that there’s no sense of accountability.

The Fluther gods in their infinite wisdom do not allow us to see which person awarded lurve to another. And that should remain. But what if we could employ the concept of Karma to approximate an accountability system?

This idea is barely half-baked. Need your help to flesh it out.

Here are some of my ideas:

- no points for Karma. Instead, let’s use color instead. Maybe the user’s name can be represented on a sliding color scale in terms of positive/negative Karma. Red is bad <==> Blue is good (allowances made for readability)

- good Karma for GA’ing people on Q’s you asked

- good Karma for GA’ing someone who GA’s you

- bad Karma for too many GA’s in a Q

- bad Karma for a Q with zero GQs after x number of quips

- (insert your ideas below)

Again, like lurve, Fluther Karma would be essentially meaningless in the grand scheme. It’s not a reward/punishment system. Just an indicator of a person’s behavior within a certain ruleset. And importantly, it maintains anonymity while introducing a modicum of accountability.