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Brycen
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How does Karma work on Career Village?
DISCLAIMER: This is not a professional question. Unless you want to fuel the childish desires of a high school sophomore, don't waste your time answering this question. (My teacher said our CareerVillage questions have to be professional, and as this is not, I'm adding this disclaimer.)
I'm a high school sophomore who has declared informal war on my best friend to get the most Karma. He has over double my Karma, and we've been on CareerVillage for the same time. How can I increase my Karma?
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Jared Chung
CareerVillage.org TeamExecutive Director at CareerVillage.org
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Jared’s Answer, CareerVillage.org Team
There are a few ways to get points, but 99.9% of the time the way you get more points is by having your posts get upvoted by other users. Each upvote you receive awards you 10 points. This applies to questions and answers, but not to comments. Pros have a few other ways to get points, and some things will reduce your points total. So... for you as a student, the best option you have to acquire more points is pretty much to try to post questions that you think other students will want to upvote, or which Professionals will want to answer.
Disclaimer: I'm being a little vague on some of the details, and leaving out some details, because it almost certainly doesn't apply to your situation. But I think the main message is sound.
Source: I'm the Executive Director of CareerVillage.org, so I have access to view the points settings.
Disclaimer: I'm being a little vague on some of the details, and leaving out some details, because it almost certainly doesn't apply to your situation. But I think the main message is sound.
Source: I'm the Executive Director of CareerVillage.org, so I have access to view the points settings.
You rock! This advice is very helpful.
david kirk
Retired Computing Manager
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david’s Answer
Hi, Brycen,
Okay, I'm willing to waste some time in fueling your desires. Karma is the totality of your actions and conduct. Now, I have no insight on the mechanics of how Career Village awards points, but my guess is that it ties to how many responses a question gets. You can test this by looking at the answers your friend received for his questions. Evaluate if your questions are narrow or broad. If narrow, only a few people will feel qualified to respond and their advice will be of interest to few students. If broad, more people may feel qualified to respond, and that will interest more students to read them. Okay, just my guess. I respect that you're interested in this, and I also infer that your real intent is to increase the benefits you receive from Career Village. For your next question, I suggest broadening the scope of the question. Good luck to you.
Okay, I'm willing to waste some time in fueling your desires. Karma is the totality of your actions and conduct. Now, I have no insight on the mechanics of how Career Village awards points, but my guess is that it ties to how many responses a question gets. You can test this by looking at the answers your friend received for his questions. Evaluate if your questions are narrow or broad. If narrow, only a few people will feel qualified to respond and their advice will be of interest to few students. If broad, more people may feel qualified to respond, and that will interest more students to read them. Okay, just my guess. I respect that you're interested in this, and I also infer that your real intent is to increase the benefits you receive from Career Village. For your next question, I suggest broadening the scope of the question. Good luck to you.