While at first I was somewhat intrigued by the karma thing...lately it doesn't seem to be that useful. I had virtually no karma rating for a while because I was very busy and not on the callboard much, though a year ago or so I was a very active poster - and thus not much karma rating. I get that. However, I've "woken up" in the SMNetwork community in the last few weeks, but other than teasing Fuzzy about his/her username can't think really of what I've said that might deserve a "smite"...and lo and behold, today I have one.
Having been burnt in the past for what I've posted online (not here, but another theatre forum) and having it come back to bite me in the butt professionally, I usually try to truly think about what I type - oh, I'm sure I slip up from time to time, but everyone on this board should really think about whether someone could figure out who you are in real life and whether it might tick someone else off. (Said previous experience was me venting during a past show that involved a famous person in it...someone did a Google search for that person's name, found my post, cut-and-pasted it out of text onto a fan website for that person, and then co-workers of mine saw it. It was me venting about 1 stressful day of tech, but what was taken out of context seriously jeopardized my career at that theatre.)
Having just positive karma points could be interesting, but from what I've seen, I don't think it would make statistics that "accurate" or fair either.
Of course, this smiting event could be my friend Balletdork who just feels that I am left out of the smiting for now....love ya!
Erin