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Good point

I should note that one of Plurk's representatives said that they are considering a grace period. I'm thankful that they have offered an alternative and am looking forward to seeing it. – tamar, on September 29, 2008 17:11

I agree with Tamar. I recently got a new job and can only come onto Plurk about once per day, which does not leave me with a large amount of time to post or respond, but I do what I can. Everyday I lose karma. So Plurk is punishing me for having a job that requires my full attention? Not fair, not cool. – ShirleyTipsy, on September 29, 2008 15:46

Oh, this: http://www.thegreatschlep.com/site/in.... Nope. I didn't even know about it. My grandparents are actually in NY. ;) (And now, back to our regularly-scheduled programming. I hope the Plurk team is still listening.) – tamar, on September 28, 2008 05:38

Oh, this: http://www.thegreatschlep.com/site/in.... Nope. I didn't even know about it. My grandparents are actually in NY. ;) – tamar, on September 28, 2008 05:38

I like tamar's idea for extending the karma drop to 7 days or at the least 5 (a single work week). You can't really expect people to be on Plurk every day. Life happens, religion happens, etc. I think responsible plurkers will return within 5-7 days and if not THEN penalize them by dropping their karma. Hell if you want increase the amount lost if you do decide to extend it. I would support that decision as a compromise. – mwilton13, on September 28, 2008 05:04

Where? What? I don't think so. – tamar, on September 28, 2008 03:48

Oi! Are you on the great schlep? – The Dude Dean, on September 28, 2008 03:47

You mean tomorrow. ;) – tamar, on September 28, 2008 03:44

Don't worry I will fix that when you are down in Hollywood next week.

For the first time, I agree with you. – tamar, on September 28, 2008 03:17

Maybe they should offer a Kosher Karma option. – The Dude Dean, on September 28, 2008 01:15

The company's responses to this request are fucking dumb. The company claims that they "love it" but meanwhile people like me who are religious and cannot use computers due to religious observance are penalized due to adhering to their religion. I emailed help@plurk.com but hear that getsatisfaction.com will yield results.

12 hours is a problem. I'm a Sabbath observer which means that I can't actually use a computer between sundown Friday night and 1 hour after sundown Saturday night (approximately 25 hours). Every single week, this has been the case. Every single week, I get penalized. I even left my feedback in Amir's Plurk announcing the 12 hours and was ignored.

In 2 days beginning Monday night, the Jewish New Year kicks off. It ends Wednesday night. Will I be checking email? No. Will I be answering the phone? No. Will I be touching a computer? No. Will I be using Plurk? Hell no. The reason is religious and religious only. And yet, those of us who observe the holidays to this extent will suffer this week and next week during Yom Kippur and then the following 2 weeks due to Succoth and Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah (yes, I think the Plurk staff will need to Google these terms).

Karma sucks. If you want to keep karma, at least make it possible to
* disable our accounts TEMPORARILY so we don't get penalized
* extend the karma period to 7 days or something. Jewish holidays are only 2 days (3 days at most when they occur over a weekend).

Thank you.

An oversight is something you over look, this is something they thought about putting into your profile link. An oversight is that not one Twitter rep has posted one comment in this thread and I even hot linked it to the twitter account. – The Dude Dean, on September 20, 2008 07:58