How karma works
Accounts earn karma by contributing things other people accept, and lose it by wasting their time. It is a number on your profile, the sum of a ledger you can read on your account page, and it decides how much your ratings count and what you may do here. The system is kycnot.me’s, numbers included.
Earning karma
- A review approved (+1): when a moderator publishes your review. Insiders of the service and staff earn nothing for it.
- A review verified (+5): when a moderator marks it as verified, for a review that is unusually well founded.
- Votes (±1): each upvote on your review is a point, each downvote costs one. One account can move at most 3 points of another’s karma this way, in either direction, and a vote on your own review moves nothing.
- A suggestion approved (+10): when a service you suggested, or an edit you proposed to a listed one, is accepted.
Losing karma
- Spam (-10): when a moderator marks your review as spam. Taken off again, the points come back.
What it unlocks
How ratings are weighted
A service’s community rating is not a plain average. Each rating is weighted by how much the account behind it has shown of itself, so a five-star review from an account made five minutes ago counts a tenth of one from a long-standing member. Only an account’s latest rating of a service counts; earlier ones stay visible and weigh nothing.
| Verified review | 100% |
|---|---|
| Accepted private proof of use | 90% |
| Moderator | 90% |
| Verified account, or 150 karma | 80% |
| 25 karma | 45% |
| 5 karma | 20% |
| A new account, or no account | 10% |
| Karma of −5 or below, a spammer, or an insider of the service | 0% |
Staff
Moderators and admins earn no karma; theirs reads as infinite. An admin can hand karma out, or take it, with a reason the account sees.
Your account shows where you stand. About & method explains the scores themselves, which karma never touches.