The Karma Button is a great feature on this forum.

I can't tell if there's a feature that allows me to see what my karma points are.
But I like the fact that I can't see what my karma is, and the fact that others don't get to see my karma.

Because I believe that everyone has both a good and a bad side and no one is 100% good or 100% bad, and people constantly learn and either improve or lead themselves in the wrong direction. So the future karma has a potential to change in either direction independent of *past karma*.

I have some enhancement requests for the karma button:

1) The karma button should be disabled when I can no longer assign karma to the same person. This feature will keep me from having to click on the Karma button each time to see the message that says "You must first spread some karma around before assigning karma to this person"

It's tough to keep a mental record of who was given karma and who was not.

2) The karma button should be enabled only for people I'm allowed to pass the karma to.

This karma button enhancement request is not urgent, but only for your consideration.

The Karma (reputation) system operates on an AJAX system that makes a background web request whenever you press the button. Due to the way the database queries are executed when a thread loads, we don't query which users have already given reputation to which users. When Revenue Source gets to be a large site, doing so would be incredibly taxing on the servers considering it's one new database query per post in a thread.

I completely agree that it can be annoying going to give reputation to someone and then getting the "You can't give reputation to the same user twice" error. Myself and another database engineer are looking at the system to see if we can't work around the above limitations.

We're also investigating if it's possible to hide the button in instances where you can't give reputation to the user (due to permissions). I'll post more here when I get an answer.

Thanks for the good suggestions, Light.

I understand, and also it could possibly make pages slower.

It's not a big deal to click the button to check. No worries.

Of late I'm only able to give reputation to one person once I think.

I wonder how many people need to get repuation from me before the same person gets the reputation again.

I don't think this feature of hiding the karma button due to permissions is necessary.

It may or may not become necessary, I guess it would show as the community grows. I think it's too early to tell.

Anytime.