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The Karma Index

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There should be an online community for people who do extraordinary acts of kindess or heroism. A place for people to recognize and share karma.

Here's how it works: Someone does something out of the ordinary so to thank them the receiver of the act of kindess adds the person to the The Karma Index. The list keeps track of the person's acts of kindness.

Rules:A person cannot add themselves or their acts. To add an act of kindness you must be added by someone else.

Other stuff: There could be a simple and an advanced addition system. Simple would just increase the person's karma number and the advanced would allow a text for a personal message. Both, simple and advanced, can be added anonymously. (or possibly everything is anonymous) The number of timesa person adds an act of kindness will also be collected. A badge system could be added to the person's website or blog and could be connected to their social networks.

Notes: simple simple simple This website has to be very very simple or users wont take the time to do it. Profile page is simply a pic, person's name, their karma badge and a tread of personal messages (maybe). This will have the opposite effect of the narcissistic nature of the facebook.




2 comments:

Unknown said...

make it like FML but the other way. also leave it nameless. Be like

"I was walking home and dropped my groceries all over the pavement, and there was this College kid that turned foot and helped me pick the up"

[[+deserves Karma][1875]]
or
[[-not impressive][235] ]

Donald Meteny said...

The way I saw it was using Facebook Connect to thank that person publicly and the the site would keep track of how many Karma Points an individual collects. But I like the idea of anonymous stories that can be voted on by anyone. So what if these two ideas were combined? :D