I have tested the Simple Karma module some time back. I was really impressed by that module's characteristics... And I also formed a very good opinion about the module's maintainer. As I understand, User Karma is now the successor of Simple Karma which is also developed by the same person. If I understand well, with User Karma module a user can vote on nodes, positively or negatively. The total number of votes from all users, gives each node a number of (karmic) points. The more points a node has, the more popular the node is. Every user has also a total number of points based on the nodes the user created and the corresponding points. On the other hand, with User Points module a user can earn points after certain actions (node creation, comment creation, invite other users, etc). Both are very useful modules. Wouldn't it be wonderful if User Karma and User Points could work together? I mean if points could be gathered in the same basket? I had the impression that this integration was possible with Simple Karma and User Points. Anyway I hope that this can be implemented. Thanks in advance.

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mercmobily’s picture

Hi,

Integration with UserPoints was messy and buggy. When I rewrote the module, I decided that it would have been better to have clean code, especially since I switched to UserAPI.

The integration should be done by a "Voting API <--> Userpoints bridging module, in my opinion: a module with hooks for both sides of the story, which keeps things "in sync" according to the user's preferences. But, it's not really something I would enjoy getting involved with... sorry :-/

Bye,

Merc.

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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)