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[mansuetus]

well itst,

I really agreed with you, since a pe ruser rating is *bad* and a per post rating is *better*, but you are quite telling phpbb cannot support both !

well, people still can get a karma when his posts are rated...
and in UCP, have a:
hide posts of people having less than [XX] karma.
hide posts having less than [XX] votes karma.

so that admin, and even people can make phpbb really fit their need.

[itst]

Whoops, must have missed that feature

[mansuetus]

well, feature...

if it do not become one, I would mod it ! (well, ... try too, at least :p )

[Wojjie]

Instead of hiding posts, why not just sort posts by a scoring system? Something along the lines of:

w variables are weights

days old * w1 + poster karma * w2 + post karma * w3

(just a rough example)

And if you are worried about increase cpu usage during listing of the posts, why not just cache the values, and make only the poster's karma at the time he/she posted it count.

[Roberdin]

Sort posts? That would entirely ruin the discussion of any topic...

[coolio]

I dont know why you all debate it: if you don't like it, disable it!

[haravikk]

I dont know why you all debate it: if you don't like it, disable it!

Easy said Coolio but I think most people would begrudge a feature if it means extra processing for something they don't use. If I turn off 20 features I don't really want those 20 IF statements or whatever running anyway to check that I've done it.

I think that's the reason why phpBB doesn't have every feature under the sun, the processing would kill the software. vBulletin is a good example of what can happen if you put more features than scripting into a board, unless you set it up very carefully it runs pretty slow compared to others

[Not Radio]

The if statements are usually simple true/false comparisons. The load difference introduced by these comparisons is quite neglible.

[psoTFX]

Scale that up to several hundred and remember this is a runtime interpreted language

[sj26]

Yes, load intensity can get higher, especially if you're looking at post karma, and then you've got database load and size. A suggestion would be to have both options available as parts of the same system (like the weighting with the option of enabling/disabling different components) but then the load increases yet again... and is it worth sacrificing this load on all the phpBB installations, or is it more worth creating a mod which can be used by those who want it? I would suggest that user/poster karma should not be included in the base installation at all and that it should be a mod itself. I mean, if you're having karma, why not the points mod, etc.

Another 2c