Karma Added

given the number of people who post here it (and the extent to which they post here) it should be obvious that the rating system is being abused, though not every abuser will admit to it.

So that's how you justify screwing with it and ruining it's potential use? It should've occurred to you that even though there are hundreds of people lurking here that don't post, they can very easily click the smite link if they don't like what you wrote.

So that's how you justify screwing with it and ruining it's potential use? It should've occurred to you that even though there are hundreds of people lurking here that don't post, they can very easily click the smite link if they don't like what you wrote.

You obviously haven't figured out how this system works or you wouldn't have posted...."even though there are hundreds of people lurking here that don't post, they can very easily click the smite link if they don't like what you wrote."

The fact is that a person CAN NOT cast a smile or smite check if he/she has not posted here. There are more limitations than that, but I'll leave it to you to figure out what they are...you also could ask Travis as he sets the parameters.

So, it means that if a person such as myself or you or anyone is getting a large number of either smiles or smites, that it could easily be coming from just a few people....even ONE person.

But I will tell you this...one can't give oneself a smile...or a smite (for those inclined toward masochism)

I was.....not upset....but more WTF did I say? When I saw the smite against me.
Then I thought, ya know, I don't even know the true definition of smite.   So looked it up.
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smite
smīt/
verb
1.
literary
strike with a firm blow.
"he smites the water with his sword"
2.
be strongly attracted to someone or something.
"she was so smitten with the boy"
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Well.   The first definition just doesn't fit.  No one landed a firm blow by anonymously hitting a smite button.
So......must be the second.  Thanks guys.  I'm flattered.   

Its just smite even thou when I see a smite on someone I think of them different. Youve been labled

And POOF.....

...it's gone. Well, it was fun while it lasted. 

Just for the record, only people with 25 posts or more could give Karma...oh, and I only smited MovieMan twice.