[WillowTheWhisp]

I don't really mind the system as it is now apart from when people simply play silly beggars and take it from somebody because:
a) they simply don't like the person regardless of the content of the post
b) they do it as tit-for-tat to someone they think took karma from them.

'b' is bad enough if it is done to the person who did dock their karma because it's a dumb reason, but when it's done to someone who never touched the other person's karma it's flippin annoying.

As for paying for the changes - this is where you can get problems because you can't force people to pay. So some may choose to pay and others won't but then all will get the benefit and you could end up with people who have paid resenting those who haven't becaue they are getting it for free. I've seen it happen on a message board I used to help admin. It was down to a request for contributions to keep it ad-free and oh boy did that lead to complaints and accusations against the board owner of being a money grabber. Such petty squabbles eventually led to the demise of the board.

One thing which I found the members definitely didn't like was discovering that things they believed to be anonymous turned out not to be. For instance someone said that post reporting was anonymous but it isn't. The "staff" know who reports a post even if the original poster doesn't. That isn't anonimity.

Back to the subject of Karma, it's a bit frustrating sometimes to have to wait 24 hours or spread it around more because I wanted to give some to a post a coupe of days ago and by the time I could do I forgot which post it was. Maybe I should have written a note and stuck it to my monitor to remind me.

Also sometimes it's safer to give negative karma anonymously simply because people get miffed and do a tit-for-tat like I said earlier without the post they use really justifying it.

Hope that makes sense.