Does anyone know what the 39 Karma is under my name on the customer feedback site, I only see it when I click on my name.
I see you're referring to the UserVoice site. I had never noticed that before either. I just clicked on my name there to go to my account profile page, and I see "310 Karma." It must be some unit of measurement that the UserVoice website has created to measure how well someone's suggestions have done in getting approved. Nothing Logos has any control over, unfortunately, since they've just set up a forum for their users on this third-party site. But it's kind of amusing that the site uses "karma" to measure something, since it's not very Christian an idea. But hey, it's probably just in jest.
Yup, I just Googled it, and here's your answer, from UserVoice support:
http://support.uservoice.com/entries/140987-what-does-a-users-karma-score-mean
Thanks for the quick reply and information, but I must agree that karma is not a word I would have chosen. (it almost caused me to delete my account)
agreed.
its a worldly site we are using for our Christian purposes, it is not in house, threrfore there is no real control over what the owners do.
Sadly there is no Christian Alternative site I am aware of..
Everybody just take a deep breath.....and now let it out.
It's gonna be okay. [;)]
Everybody just take a deep breath.....and now let it out. It's gonna be okay.
It's gonna be okay.
Agreed, after all the word is just something the world made up to try and explain a Spiritual truth that God had established at its foundations:
but I must agree that karma is not a word I would have chosen.
I quite agree. But unfortunately, there are a lot of computer terms of dubious origin:
Avatar: (Hindu Myth.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; - chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu
Daemon: "one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief"
Zombie: "a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies"
MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) (John Bunyan was kept in a dungeon [:(] )
"Karma?" I am not too worried. I know Who is really in control. Proverbs 16:9
Thanks for the smile...
it's kind of amusing that the site uses "karma" to measure something,
Personally, I would rather have goodie points with my wife than "310 Karma". [:D]
I just Googled it
Nothing like instant karma [;)]
Karma?
Karma from the Sanskrit root kr or proto-IndoEuropean kwer - basically make or action. The derivative karma means "consequence of actions" - while often thought of in the West as "fate" it is fate only in the sense of the sum of the consequences of all one's actions.
Avatar means the descent of a deity into human form i.e. incarnation of a deity ... seems to me I've heard that concept used in Christian circles, especially around Christmas. I believe the computer use comes from a novel not from HIndu or Buddhist sources.
Daemon is used in early church fathers, Greek church, Vulgate and Jewish authors to refer to the "heathen gods" ... if its good enough for them, its good enough for me.
At work we had clusters of servers named for Inca writing systems and literature. Why? To name them something people could remember but not a word used so frequently that you would use it by mistake ... when's the last time you used the word 'quipu'?
but I must agree that karma is not a word I would have chosen. I quite agree. But unfortunately, there are a lot of computer terms of dubious origin: Avatar: (Hindu Myth.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; - chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu Daemon: "one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief" Zombie: "a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies" MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) (John Bunyan was kept in a dungeon ) "Karma?" I am not too worried. I know Who is really in control. Proverbs 16:9
MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) (John Bunyan was kept in a dungeon )
Thanks for that reminder. We use avatars (our pictures, or stand-in images for us) in our online accounts. We get emails from MAILER-DAEMON when an email of ours bounces. A zombie is an insecure server that allows malicious code to cause a denial-of-service attack.
There's also troll, which is a mythological, usually evil, creature (giant or dwarf) in Scandinavian folklore. It is also a person who intentionally incites flame wars in online forums.
The word karma, although it has been used in Hinduism to mean "the total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny," is originally just a Sanskrit word meaning deed or action.
EDIT: I see Martha had already posted the def'n of karma. We had a power outage right as I'd finished typing up my response, before I had a chance to post it, so my modem went down. I put my laptop to sleep and took a nap and when the power came back on I just woke my laptop up and clicked Post without checking to see if anyone else had.
There's also the "Darwin" group of operating systems, also known as Mac OS X and iOS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29
Check out the mascot! A duck-billed Platypus named Hexley dressed up in a devil costume.
