Karma
Karma is both a way of theCrag recognising user contributions to the index and for you to establish your credentials in the climbing community.
Every time you contribute to the index, you are helping to build and improve this free online guide for the benefit of the whole climbing community.
Karma is also used to help establish editor permissions. Site admin will look at your karma when granting permissions and in some cases permissions is automated if you have sufficient Karma.
Karma points are added up across the index to give you a score for each area, up to the World level at the top of the index.
Crag Activity Back to contents
Each crag contribution will add to your Karma points. You currently get points for the following:
| Update Area Description | 50 |
| Update Route Description | 30 |
| Locate Node | 30 |
| Update Topo Route | 30 |
| Upload Photo | 20 |
| Make Topo | 20 |
| Register Route | 15 |
| Register Area | 15 |
| Merge Route | 10 |
| Reparent Node | 10 |
| Request Area Name Change | 10 |
| Update Route Details | 10 |
| Delete Area | 10 |
| Rename Area | 10 |
| Update Tag | 10 |
| Update Grade Contribution | 10 |
| Update Route History | 10 |
| Reparent Route | 10 |
| Delete Route | 10 |
| Locate Route | 10 |
| Register Node Link | 10 |
| Update Area Tag | 10 |
| Rename Route | 10 |
| Merge Area | 10 |
| Merge Node | 10 |
| Request Route Name Change | 10 |
| Reparent Area | 10 |
| Update Route Tag | 10 |
| Delete Node | 10 |
| Assign webcover | 10 |
| Resequence Area | 10 |
| Update Principle Grade | 10 |
| Update Area Type | 10 |
| Update Route URL Stub | 5 |
| Update Annotation | 5 |
| Update URL Stub | 5 |
| Update Star Contribution | 5 |
| Create Circuit | 5 |
| Update Area URL Stub | 5 |
| Add Public Comment | 1 |
| Start Public Discussion | 1 |
| Archive Node | 1 |
| Unarchive Node | 1 |
| Add Shortcut | 1 |
| Log Ascent | 1 |
Account Activity Back to contents
Account activiy karma is planned shortly. When implemented the following account activity will also generate karma:
| Verify Email | 50 |
| Profile Description | 20 |
| Login | 10 |
| Upload Avatar | 10 |
| Followed By Account | 5 |
| Follow Account | 1 |
A Few Details Back to contents
For a particular contribution type you will only get the points once for each node in the index. For example, if you upload more than one photo for a particular route you will get 20 points in total for all the photos you upload to that route.
More than one person can get points for contributions to a particular node in the index.
In order to help prevent people gaming the system Karma is not assigned immediately to your account, but put into a review queue. After about a week, it will be assigned to your account. During that week we may alter the amount of Karma that will be assigned.
While it is cool to do genuine updates to the database for the purposes of gaining Karma, it is not cool to make rubish updates. Luckily there is so much to do, nobody seems to be making rubish updates.
Please note that the algorithms are quite involved for assigning karma and because of this there may be cases that we accidently miss assigning karma. If this happens then please contact us so we can fix it for the future, but be aware that we will not be able to back date the karma even if you were entitled to it.
If you want to see how your contributions measure up there is a site wide Karma leaderboard.