by JiyambiRanks are awarded to users at certain Karma levels to allow them privileges on the website.
Karma Points are a measure of a user’s contribution to the WoW-Pro community. They are awarded for any action which helps enrich the community, including writing guides, leaving helpful comments, and working on the WoW-Pro Addon. You can also lose Karma Points if you do things that harm the community, such as leaving harmful comments or extremely inaccurate or harmful guides.
Ranks are awarded to users at certain Karma levels to allow them privileges on the website. Unlocked privileges include skipping the comment moderation queue, ability to revert bad revisions to wiki pages, and the ability to post news on the front page of the site. You can view the current highest ranking members by selecting the Rankings link at the top of each page.
I’ll explain the different ranks and the methods for earning Karma below.
Ranks, Priveleges, and Points Needed
1. Member (0 points):
- receive karma points
- create/edit content
- create/edit forum topics
- edit wiki pages
- view revisions
- send/view private messages
- access user profiles
2. Trusted Member (5 points):
- skip captcha challenges (you know, those annoying codes you have to enter to validate every post you make)
- post comments without approval (no more moderation queue for you!)
- cancel own vote on polls
- publish own guides without approvale
- write user blogs
3. Honored Member (20 points):
- revert revisions
- rename the url of your articles
- create polls
4. Revered Member (50 points):
- create new encyclopedia books
- administer smileys
5. Exalted Member (100 points):
- post news on the frontpage!
- outline guides into the encyclopedias (change their category)
- inspect votes on polls
6. Moderator (You will be considered for moderator after 200 points):
- administer comments and their approval queue
- administer forums
- edit guides (of anyone)
- edit news posts
Gaining and Losing Karma Points
You can gain Karma points in three ways: comments, guides, and addon work. Comments and guides that actually detract from the site will result in a loss of Karma. Note that blatant trolling, flaming, or spam can still result in an immediate ban at the administrator’s discretion
Comments:
- Useful comment = +1 Karma
- Very useful comment = +2 Karma
- Bad comment = -1 Karma
- Very bad comment = -2 Karma
Guides:
- Okay Guide (two stars) = +2 Karma
- Good Guide (three stars) = +4 Karma
- Very good Guide (four stars) = +6 Karma
- Awesome Guide (five stars) = +8 Karma
- Bad guide (one star) = -1 Karma
Blogs:
- Useful blog = +2 Karma
- Very useful blog = +4 Karma
- Bad blog = -1 Karma
- Very bad blog = -2 Karma
Addon:
- Test one guide = +2 Karma
- Update/revise code for one guide = +4 Karma
- Code one guide from the website = +6 Karma
- Code one guide from scratch = varies, based on the quality of the guide(see “Guides” above)
- Detailed bug report = +1 or 2 Karma (varies, like comments above)
- Bug fix = +4 Karma
- Minor feature addition = +6 Karma
- Major feature addition = +8 Karma
I didn’t include any penalties for addon work considering addon submissions will all be approved by me or Jame before they are released to the site. Also note that by one guide I mean the full guide, not just the part for a single zone. An example would be the full Jame’s 21-31 guide, not just the 28 step section involving Stonetalon Mountains.
Please post a comment if anything here needs to be clarified or if you have any other questions.
SOURICETTE YOU EXIST!!!! :DSOURICETTE YOU EXIST!!!! 😀 😀 😀
Always glad to see one of the old guard 🙂 How are things with you?
Congratulations!Always nice to see that community still active!
Welcome to you!
Thank you Jiya And plentyThank you Jiya 🙂 And plenty more on the way in terms of content 😛
I do what I can, if people find it useful in any way, then that’s great and I shall continue it 🙂
-Skum
Another New Exalted Member!!!!Lets all give a big congrats to our newest [b]Exalted Member[/b], [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/skumball]Skumball[/url]!
Skumball is well known for his fun and useful comments, his knowledge of warriors, and his general WoW Blog, Skumball’s Junkbox. He has a few awesome upcoming Cataclysm guides planned which should be released shortly, including one covering the new secondary profession, Archeology.
His work includes:
[list][*][url=https://wow-pro.com/wowpro_user_blogs/skumballs_junkbox]Skumball’s Junkbox[/url]
[*][url=https://wow-pro.com/class_guides/skumballs_warrior_qanda]Skumball’s Warrior Q&A[/url]
[*][url=https://wow-pro.com/general_guides/skumballs_keybinding_guide]Skumball’s Keybinding Guide[/url][/list]
Thank you for all of your hard work!
It’s not me, the Karma andIt’s not me, the Karma and ranks system has gone a little crazy >_<
Don’t tell Jiyambi you don’t care about Karma PointsOr she will take your rank away and make you remember how bad you were at BBCode over 2 years ago!
😛
(This post may contain jokes and content for an immature audience)
Yeah, I am still strugglingYeah, I am still struggling with the statistics weights of the new patch for my Paladin Guide. I feel like I am a seasoned pro at holy paladins, but right now everything is weird and we have no idea how the play style is going to change come 85 end game.
Haha well it’s all goodHaha well it’s all good stuff so win 🙂
Should catch up soon though with guide numbers once I get all mine finished and released, next up… Archaeology!
Class guides are a pain in the rear-end to get done though, sooo much content to include! 🙁
-Skum
Thanks; This sudden splurgeThanks; This sudden splurge of activity is due to me being at my mom’s for a few days and having little distractions. Also I left my authenticator at home >< haha
Karma Whore! Congratz buddyKarma Whore! 😛 Congratz buddy 🙂
– Skum
New Honored MemberCongratulations to our new [b]Honored Member[/b], [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/bitsem]Bitsem[/url]!
New Exalted Member!!!Lets all give a big congrats to our newest [b]Exalted Member[/b], [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/wkjezz]wkjezz[/url]!
wkjezz just released three excellent instance guides, covering the ICC five man heroic instances. He also released a 4.0 updated Holy Paladin guide, as well as guides on the conversion of emblems and honor to the new point system.
His guides include:
[list][*][url=https://www.wow-pro.com/class_guides/newpaladin]Holy Paladin Helpdesk – 4.0.1 and Cataclysm[/url]
[*][url=https://www.wow-pro.com/instance_guides/dungeon401]Dungeon and Raid Awards Conversion (4.0.1)[/url]
[*][url=https://www.wow-pro.com/general_guides/pvp_points_conversion_401]PVP Points Conversion (4.0.1)[/url]
[*][url=https://www.wow-pro.com/instance_guides/pursuit_justice_all_new_dungeon_points]Pursuit of Justice – Heroic Dungeons[/url]
[*][url=https://www.wow-pro.com/instance_guides/fos]The Forge of Souls (Heroic) – Level 80[/url]
[*][url=https://www.wow-pro.com/instance_guides/pitofsaron]Pit of Saron (Heroic) – Level 80[/url]
[*][url=https://www.wow-pro.com/instance_guides/halls_reflection_heroic_level_80]Halls of Reflection (Heroic) – Level 80[/url][/list]
Thank you for all of your hard work!
New Honored MemberCongratulations to our new [b]Honored Member[/b], [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/kayeich]kayeich[/url]!
Aww, thanks, my pleasure toAww, thanks, my pleasure to help. 🙂 I’d never imagine I would be helpful around here, being such a terrible and super casual WoW player. 😛
Top members! Keep up the good work!Currently, three users are all very close to becoming exalted members:
[list][*]Skumball with 95 points
[*]Silvann with 85 points
[*]wkjezz with 82 points[/list]
These folks are working so hard to bring awesome content to the site and to the addon, I just want to make sure they know they are appreciated. Thanks for all your hard work!
If you’re wondering what Silvann has done to be so awesome, other than leave helpful comments around here – He’s been invaluable in his contributions to the WoW-Pro addon, including several fixes which I would never have been able to find on my own. I just wanted to make sure he was getting the recognition he deserved, since his contributions aren’t as easy to trace as a guide.
It’s all groovy and allIt’s all groovy and all looks right I guess so don’t worry about it 🙂
-Skum
Yes, I noticed this happenedYes, I noticed this happened to both of you (Skumball and Silvann).
Sadly the Karma system is being really buggy lately, and the top users page hasn’t correctly updated itself in ages. It doesn’t look like you guys actually lost points, but your user status changed itself automatically. I corrected it manually.
Hopefully some of this can get looked into soon, sadly I don’t really know anything about the guts of the karma system at the moment. I’ll bug Jame about it some more but it may be that I’ll just have to learn how to deal with it myself. Unfortunately I have no idea where to start, but that never stopped me before (example: addon development 😀 )
Figured it out – it was aFigured it out – it was a miscalculation in some of the points being applied. Nothing to worry about and all is good 🙂
-Skum
I’ve had that e-mail too, II’ve had that e-mail too, I think it may be an automated one from the system.
No idea what’s going on with it all but I have a feeling it’s some bug from the auto admin system.
I’m sure whoever knows and has control though will be able to shed more light on this.
-Skum
Thanks for the points, but IThanks for the points, but I received the following e-mail a couple of days ago:
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Silvann,
We are sorry!
You have lost the number of points required to stay in your current rank.
You no longer have access to the areas and privileges of the following rank:
Role: Revered Member
Points Required: 50.
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Since I didn’t seem to break the addon’s code too much lately, I think there was some mistake. 😛
Just finished a big update,Just finished a big update, everyone should be up to date on Karma now!
We have some users approaching Exalted status, keep up the good work guys! I am really hoping to recruit some of you as moderators soon 😀
New Trusted MemberCongratulations to [url=https://wow-pro.com/users/kayeich]kayeich[/url] on becoming our newest [b]Trusted Member[/b]!
New Revered MemberCongratulations to [url=https://wow-pro.com/users/wkjezz]wkjezz[/url] on becoming our newest [b]Revered Member[/b]!
Hey. RL > all, it’s how itHey. RL > all, it’s how it should be. More important than anything tbh. I’ll keep the spam to an absolute minimum then and let you concentrate on your Uni stuff 🙂
-Skum
w00t! Sorry I’ve been a bitw00t! Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet around here, I’m getting into the meat of this term at school and it’s been busy!
Nomnomnom Thanks Jiya
I’mNomnomnom 😛 Thanks Jiya 🙂
I’m going to get to work on what we discussed in the PMs over the next day or 2 so expect a little spamming of your inbox from me (I’ll try to keep it to an almost-minimum) 😛
Thanks again!
-Skum
New Revered MembersCongratulations to [url=https://wow-pro.com/users/Skumball]Skumball[/url] and [url=https://wow-pro.com/users/Silvann]Silvann[/url] on becoming our newest [b]Revered Members[/b]!
New Trusted MemberCongratulations to our newest [b]Trusted Member[/b], [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/phlegathon]Phlegathon[/url]!
*Hands Jiyambi $5 and a*Hands Jiyambi $5 and a Cookie* Thanks! 😀
New Honored MemberCongratulations to our new [b]Honored Member[/b], [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/ayajulia]AyaJulia[/url]!
New Trusted MembersCongratulations to our two new [b]Trusted Members[/b], [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/tarix]tarix[/url] and [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/mavet]mavet[/url]!
New Honored MembersCongratulations to our two new [b]Honored Members[/b], [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/silvann]Silvann[/url] and [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/wkjezz]wkjezz[/url]!
New Trusted MemberCongratulations to [url=https://wow-pro.com/users/micropez]Micropez[/url] on becoming our newest [b]Trusted Member[/b]!
New Revered MemberCongratulations to [url=https://wow-pro.com/users/pretzl]Pretzl[/url] on becoming our newest [b]Revered Member[/b]!
New Revered MemberCongratulations to [url=https://wow-pro.com/users/arixan]Arixan[/url] on becoming our newest [b]Revered Member[/b]!
New Honored MemberCongratulations to [url=https://wow-pro.com/users/gylin]Gylin[/url] on becoming our newest [b]Honored Member[/b]!
New Trusted MemberCongratulations to [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/users/savagefool]savagefool[/url] for becoming our newest Trusted Member!
New Honored MemberCongratulations to BrianAT for becoming our newest Honored Member!
Big Karma Update!With all the excitement of finally getting a beta invite, and the frantic work on the addon, I managed to completely forget about Karma point updates for a while there! Sorry about that, folks.
I tried to get credit in for all of the comments over the last week or so, but I may have missed one here or there. If so, I apologize. I will do my best to keep up in the future 🙂
I am 99% sure I recorded credit for all *guides* released in that time. If you think you were missed, please let me know.
Finally, I did my best to assign credit for addon work and testing. I don’t know everyone who reports on github or the addon sites, so if you did, please let me know who you are and I’ll make sure you get Karma. Gameldar, Pretzl, TwoToad, BrianAT, rpotor, and Torak75 – thank you all for your contributions to the addon, you should have received Karma points accordingly 🙂
Keep up the good work everyone! We have a slew of new Trusted and Honored members after this update, I’m very happy to welcome you all to the ranks!
Added a point reward forAdded a point reward for useful, detailed bug reports – basically the same as a useful comment!
Mhm, that sure has been aMhm, that sure has been a while! Nice addition once again :p Wonder if I missed some points *thinks*
No idea actually. Not going to start playing World of Warcraft anymore, though. Although I’ll help people out starting with writing their own guides, that’s the least I can do.
27.07.10.. I await you..
*cough* Manovan’s night elf*cough* Manovan’s night elf guide. *cough*
Hmmm, I should make thatHmmm, I should make that more clear. What I meant there was, taking a guide that has not been put into addon form yet but which *had* been written on the site.
Heh, well any retirees thatHeh, well any retirees that return to activity won’t get passed up! Though I know you’re no longer playing. You’ll always be respected for your contributions, even if they are out of date 😉
It was never our intention to stop rewarding Karma, we simply got overwhelmed with all the stuff going on with the addon and with real life issues. I definitely hope rewarding it again will help to re-invigorate the community 😀
Guide from scratchSo when it says Guide from scratch, does that include converting an existing web guide that wasn’t in the old add-on or just everything from start to finish? If the former, then that is 2 guides there, and I revised one…or two guides I don’t recall before the autoconverter. 🙂
I think this is a greatI think this is a great idea! 😉
Karma was always a great motivator for me, and I think the awarding system will encourage other members (and lurkers) to be more active, too.
Hopefully there will be a new and revived group of members that will contribute greatly to this site, as others and themselves have done in the past.
Retirees such as myself, however, will be caught up by others and no longer possess an unique rank and status. 🙁
Oh well, what is the point for a wow-retiree to be exalted? My guides will all be out-dated shortly and my contribution to this site will only have had a temporary value. I arose in the ranks very fast, but I now realise that the tale about the rabbit and the snail is true: in the end, the snail slowly surpasses the sleeping rabbit.
Oh, well, I don’t countOh, well, I don’t count 😉
Fun fact: If I had awardedFun fact: If I had awarded Jiyambi for everything she has done, she’d be well over 1000 Karma points by now 😛
It’s true that there hasIt’s true that there has been a lull in activity here on WoW-Pro, but it’s a little deceiving because a lot of people have been helping out over on the addon alpha’s site and via PM and email with me 🙂
Regardless, the karma system will not only be an incentive, but a nice way to recognize those who have worked hard to improve the site.
Im excited personally to seeIm excited personally to see the karma system come back. Hopefully this along with the upcoming release of Cata will hopefully get more activity here. It seems that recently there has been less activity as a whole on this site, and maybe the thought of ranks will encourge more people to write guides.