convore.json/groups/feedback/karma-tracking/messages.json

[{"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175535.789607, "message": "Maybe this is just me who thinks it'd be fun, but back on IRC in the old days, we had a little bit running to keep track of ++ and -- statements in the chat", "group_id": 88, "id": 49315}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175657.971025, "message": "And then the bot would increment \"Stargate\" +1 in its own database", "group_id": 88, "id": 49320}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175749.1764081, "message": "Sometimes you'd find funny stuff in there that people did which you might've missed, like \u201cGetting a nice triple-scoop chocolate mint, lemon merengue and peach ice cream and then having your elbow bumped by some guy not paying attention and your ice cream falling to the floor\u201d--", "group_id": 88, "id": 49322}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175794.4789209, "message": "But usually, it'd be things like \u201cGah, AT&T--! They charged me for roaming even though I never left the country, I was just _near_ the Canadian border!\u201d", "group_id": 88, "id": 49323}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175865.836633, "message": "Definitely a nerdy thing, and definitely more programmer-humor than mainstream, but it lived perfectly fine along crowds that never used it or even \"got\" it", "group_id": 88, "id": 49325}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175895.5069799, "message": "I think it would be fun to have here, but I could well be the only one", "group_id": 88, "id": 49326}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175933.5736351, "message": "In any case, I made it a hack for vBulletin way back when, and it was super popular", "group_id": 88, "id": 49327}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297177423.6848431, "message": "This could easily be done as a simple bot.", "group_id": 88, "id": 49330}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175559.183789, "message": "We tracked it as Karma, and used it as a means to express ourselves mostly comically", "group_id": 88, "id": 49316}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175615.818279, "message": "It was rarely \u201cabused\u201d really, most of the time it was just a subtle thing that some people participated in, and never stood out much on its own", "group_id": 88, "id": 49317}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175643.259608, "message": "So for example, we could be talking about how Stargate++ was awesome last night", "group_id": 88, "id": 49319}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175676.4355209, "message": "And of course, there was a site where you could read the whole Karma list", "group_id": 88, "id": 49321}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297175811.0434279, "message": "And then AT&T would go down 1.", "group_id": 88, "id": 49324}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297177429.8613479, "message": "ie: in user-space, rather than baked in.", "group_id": 88, "id": 49331}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297182870.9459529, "message": "yes I think @justinlilly has a good suggestion ... this is probably better as a bot", "group_id": 88, "id": 49345}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297182881.759511, "message": "since then you can control the behavior", "group_id": 88, "id": 49346}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297194834.5693631, "message": "There wouldn't be a bot for it  if it was baked on :P", "group_id": 88, "id": 49527}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297194836.4706709, "message": "in*", "group_id": 88, "id": 49528}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297193998.5999711, "message": "Wouldn't work though; a bot could never access the entirety of the site.", "group_id": 88, "id": 49461}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297194730.8440449, "message": "nor is it likely that people actually want a karma bot always.", "group_id": 88, "id": 49518}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297194747.287317, "message": "And with invites in place for groups, getting a karma bot when you want one seems quite easy.", "group_id": 88, "id": 49519}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297195188.292172, "user_id": 218}], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297195165.265218, "message": "okay, I don't know why you'd want a site-wide feature like this anyways... I would think you would want it scoped to your own group?", "group_id": 88, "id": 49555}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297195223.5462179, "message": "otherwise there would probably be a battle between Django Community and Rails", "group_id": 88, "id": 49561}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297194866.586668, "message": "If you don't want to participate in Karma upvotes/downvotes, just don't participate, no?", "group_id": 88, "id": 49532}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297194872.086632, "message": "(mainly, I don't see the problem)", "group_id": 88, "id": 49533}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297197539.157505, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297195091.9683771, "message": "\"oh, foo++ does something. What else does this do?\" thereby making the concept a teensy bit harder to grok.", "group_id": 88, "id": 49551}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297195078.232841, "message": "just another thing for people to learn when they get to the service.", "group_id": 88, "id": 49550}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297195209.65641, "message": "@leah If I had a karma bot, I would totally increment you for that comment. ;)", "group_id": 88, "id": 49558}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297195221.6759911, "message": "/me @leah++'s into the ether.", "group_id": 88, "id": 49560}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297197182.1701391, "message": "Mm, that's fair - back on IRC and on my community, we all knew each other well enough to not get into a pissing contest over whatever X we liked was better", "group_id": 88, "id": 49626}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1901, "date_created": 1297197188.2985289, "message": "But that wouldn't apply here necessarily at all", "group_id": 88, "id": 49627}]