re: #39 MJBrutus

I would like to propose a unit of measure for our LGF Karma scores. We measure distance using miles as a shorthand to expressing all distances in feet, for example. We measure the heat of peppers using a unit of measure called Scovilles (Jalapenos are about 5k Scovilles and Serranos are about 10k).

I propose that we refer to our Karma using a new measure called Sharmutas! A Sharmuta is equal to 1,000 Karma points. That would put my Karma at about 0.7 Sharmutas. Sharmuta currently has about 75 Sharmutas to her Karmic credit.

Who’s with me in establishing our new Karma yardstick?

In college (where else), one night while drinking we came up with the “stump ratio” (we may not have been the first, but we were the first that night). The “stump ratio” was simply a person’s height divided by a person’s width (H/W). Taller, skinner people had high “stump ratios” (H>W, or H/W>1). Stump ratios less than 1 were fun for conversation. Anyway, the point of this is that I’ve thought about this before and the same thing could be done with a ratio, say Karma points/comments (K/C). Sharmuta, for example, would have a K/C ratio of 1.42 (base on post #443).

Then you could develop a scale. Anyone with K/C>1 means they have more Karma points than comments (superhero). For the other end of the spectrum, spacejesus would be a -2.26 (even with the 55 updings last night).

Just a thought.