I have been using Plurk for only about a month now and I have been frustrated by the karma aspect of it.
If you don’t know, Plurk is another social media tool. Its similar to Twitter although I find it easier to have conversations on and just find it more interesting overall.
If you use Plurk you know that one of the features/challenges is raising your karma. It doesn’t take much to increase your karma, just regularly using the service increases a users karma.
However it also doesn’t take much to decrease a users karma. Plurk states how having a friend request rejected will lower karma, good to prevent mass friending. But you also lose karma if you just don’t use the service for a day.
What happens when you go on vacation? Are just to busy for a couple days?
Seems a little extreme that you will consistently lose karma just by going on vacation and not being around a computer or wanting to sign into your Plurk account. They need a better system that will allow users to stray from their account for a few days without suffering a severe penalty. Something as simple as decreasing karma every 5th day when a user is inactive, instead of every time karma is updated.
I don’t know the perfect solution but something should be changed.
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