Dented Reality Notes

Well, after the usual 15 transfers and multiple "we don't deal with thats", I have finally gained access to the WebCT sytsem which runs all of the online courses at Curtin -- only to find out that apparently I'm not enrolled in anything at Curtin as of yet! (read: they haven't gotten around to adding the 2 units I am enrolled in to my account, so I can't access them!).

The stupid thing is that in the end, I knew my password, all I needed was someone to tell me what my username was, so that I could try out a couple passwords and guess the right one. I don't even want to get started on how I feel about finally getting online, only to find that I still can't start -- I'll email the course co-ordinator and see if he knows when we might actually start...

Well, Fletcher has been flying away at the karma plugin we discussed and has got a version 0.3 going already. This one has the following features;

1. Show number of visits/votes
2. Show positive and negative votes
3. Show Controversy Index
4. Show Karma Index
5. Show Visits Index
6. Only show posts with minimum of 'x' for;
   1. Karma
   2. Controvery
   3. Interest

You can download karma 0.3 and drop it in as a plugin immediately. It's pretty self-explanatory if you understand the concept. To figure out the way that controvery and interest are calculated - have a look in the code for now, I'll post the formulae when I get a chance :)