Modern Vespa

In my opinion, Karma is nothing more than the Law of Reciprocity. "What you sow, so shall you reap." Or, "What goes around comes around." Or, "No misdeed goes unpunished, no good deed goes unrewarded." Ad finitum, ad nauseam. Mystics call Karma the "Wheel of life." We here at MV, on the other hand, use it as more of a scoring device.
I also feel the computer programers among us probably have a better handle on it than most. They would know that nature, like Windows Vista, abhors a vacuum, and that the Great Programer of the Universe knew it to. Light must have dark, good must have bad.
So, in conclusion, I feel that Bill and Ted summed it up best when they said, "Be excellent to one another."

I need to go lay down. I have a headache.

In my opinion,
Some of you thought it funning to give
some of us creative scooterist
bad karma, at first this bothered me
so I lashed out. Now that I see whats
its really about I just don't give a damb
about your approval. So, yes lets try to
get along and use this forum to discuss
and help out the other karma struggling
scooterist. 8)

ill give you a thumbs up for that yardsale .... there two of em .......... but remember what goes around dosent have to return

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If that were the case then jimc wouldn't
have so many bullseyes below his photo.

more importantly than karma is just plain ole being of service in all walks of life with nothing expected in return

Yardsale, contrary to your opinion, jimc is probably one of the friendliest people you could meet. He is also very helpful. Just my opinion. I am also sure that he is not responsible for your little red circles. (Nor am I for that matter, as the post has to be really unhelpful for me to do that) I do try to be helpful most of the time but sometimes the devil on my other shoulder gets the better of me!

I don't think throwing mud at a moderator is going to enhance your position. No, I did not vote on your post.

Oh and while I'm at it, the OP has the right idea.

If negative attention is all one can get that's how that person will seek acceptance. Its best just to ignore a person in a forum that is disruptive by not responding to the post, "Karma or no Karma system" that person will move on the next forum when he gets the hint.

Some people don't ever get the hint.

You're going to have to trust me on this one.

is there a hint in that ......... ill have to keep poppin back and adding my piece till i see it



























































but it gets hard remembering where ive been

Shouldn't it be Scooterma?

And the winner is-----

Look,
I was up set when I wrote that about jimc, he does seam
to complain about stuff I say, I have had a fine time on the
site and will be around for a long time to come. Karma
Shmarva, what ever. I do appreciate many of the comments
here. I know who my friends are here and they know my humor
be it dry or wet. Many have said that the green font upset them
so I GOT that hint. Then there was the colored ----------------------
between the colored fonts and that stopped. So now I just use the
xxxxxxxx with NO color between the messages and thats good for
me. I love pizzazz and I seam to get some people riled up with it.

Karma...the real story.

He's makin a list,
Checkin' it twice,
Gonna find out
Who's naughty or nice

Hmmmmmm...

Sometimes I think signal to noise ratio should be rated.

Oh-oh!...
Didn't think Kris followed the karma thing

Yet another scary thought...
Think I'll retire for the night

Now we just have to work on that carriage return and let the software wrap the message as it sees fit. BTW, it would be seem, not seam. Oh, and that's.

Actually, his short lines are about the best feature of his posts, except when he's actually contributing something meaningful to the question at hand

Shorter lined paragraphs are easier to read than long ones.

Oh crap, I thought you were warning
us the posts were X-rated so I've
just been skipping past them.

PGPGPGPGPGPGPGPGPGPGPGPGPGPGPG

Let them eat cake.

thanks jack

Excellent behaviour 8)

Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon
You come and go
You come and go
Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dream
Red, gold and green
Red, gold and green

My take on this:
Thoughts in mind,
produce in kind.
Mind your thoughts.

Just my two bits worth: the karma system is a little silly. I've never voted on someone's post nor have I ever paid any mind to whether anyone has voted on mine. 'Karma' seems like it could replaced with 'Popularity' pretty easily. Again, something I don't care about. I'm a scooterist. I ride, I like this forum, and I like the people on it. Everything else is secondary.

Been there done that, Back when the Internet was just newsgroups,
We had a few people that started websites with Pagemill and Netscape 1.0,
A lot of it was hand written though, Pagemill was one of the first ready made website makers.
Those sites are big now, "The Well, "PhotoSIG", etc...

Ratings are alright, But if your heart isn't into it,
Then you aren't really here for the community,
You are here because you are just addicted to the Internet.

Sometimes the people that enable a far more damaging to the cause then the perps.

+1GB (That is true Burner spirit dude.)

There is enuf BS in this world, why add to it?

My own take (as a totally imperfect human): approach every interaction in life with a positive attitude and leave it better than you found it. After 55 trips* around the sun, it works for me!

\\osc

* NOT a speed limit.

You may find it silly, but I've seen people who were otherwise unwilling or unable to exercise any self control start controlling themselves. Political jabs have been reduced to a minimum, and people are generally better behaved.

The results speak for themselves.

On the down side, people bitch about the karma system incessantly. Oh well.

When I wrote this piece about Karma I did not mean for it to cause a rukus. But, on the other hand isn't the true nature of a forum to express ideas and opinions? And, most certainly, ideas and opinions clash with others and disagreements sometimes take place. I am for the concept of Karma, as we use it. I think it helps to keep these same ideas and opinions centered and within more reasonable bounds. Kind of like a cop giving out a traffic ticket.

when i said 'more importantly than karma', i by no means was making less of the mv karma system

i am so brutally honest with myself that i will admit that i am a better, more thoughtfull person since i became a member of jess's mv family

i'm not kidding

i am better at spelling, sentence structure, behaviour within text conversations

i have become a better wrencher

i am more likely not to give advice if i am not sure, by not posting it often leaves space for a proper suggestion

i am funnier when it is proper

i spend more time on the couch with my pc, you get the idea

Thats funny

working

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JD , you are such a kiss up.

suppose you could just cross the targets and tick the other red thingys ... someone was givin me thumbs up for the hell of it but musta given up as you can see ........ two in less than two week musta pissed someone right off ... it should tell you who did it that might slow em down
its like a coward pissing in ya shoes at school when your in the shower then running away ...... run run coward run

Speaks the man who managed to get two "negativity boobs"