Amnesty and zeroing

    Hello!

    Today we made quite important changes on the site, as a result of which the karma of many users was reset.
    Don't panic, clarifications under the cut.

    What happened?


    Forced dumping of votes for karma underwent two user groups.

    The first group, the most numerous, is those users who previously did not post publications on Habré, but at the same time had karma sufficient to influence the rating of publications and the karma of other users. As a rule, karma was earned either in the comments, or through acquaintance (asked friends to vote), or somehow else, legally (a famous person) or not (bought votes from radishes - bad users). After zeroing, these users cannot vote for publications, comments and karma of other community members.

    In order to earn karma and to be able to influence other users and their content, you must post a publication to pass a kind of test - the community will decide for itself whether it is worth giving the user the opportunity to influence others.

    We understand that not everyone will like this innovation, however, we pursued exclusively noble goals - it is designed to increase the value of being an author in the community and will give an additional advantage to those who create interesting content. If you want to evaluate authors, then become an author yourself.

    imageHolders of the Commentator badge without published posts can not worry - the community has managed to appreciate your commentary contribution, so your karma has remained the same.

    The second group is users whose karma was minus for various reasons: published an unsuccessful text, said rudeness / stupidity or joked unsuccessfully, expressed obscene language, trolls and so on - anything can happen. We believe that mistakes should be forgiven, so we hope that after zeroing, many users who are infected (rightly or unfairly) will start “from scratch” and become part of a huge community of authors.

    For lucky owners of the Troll badge, zeroing does not apply.

    What else?


    In connection with the zeroing, there were changes in the thresholds of the necessary votes for performing certain actions:

    - You can vote for comments with karma of at least 5 (before it was at least 10);
    - You can vote for the publication rating or karma of another user with karma of at least 10 (previously it was at least 15);
    - The threshold for publication publication from the hub to Lenta has been reduced from +7 to +5 points.

    Best regards,
    Habrahabra team

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