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Posted: Monday August 30th, 2004 15:08

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manas? what are they?

how do they work?

how do you know who has added onto yours and how do you add to others?

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Posted: Monday August 30th, 2004 16:59

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Look in the help section, all is explained there..

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Posted: Monday August 30th, 2004 19:48

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thanks K

still a bit clueless about finding out who has actually added to my mana, would be interesting to know but I guess it isn't possible and for good reason too!!

thanks anyway.

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Posted: Wednesday September 1st, 2004 15:37

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I am with Fazuan -

Is mana an acronym for something?

The help page does not explain what mana is and what it is for. I am curios, can someone please explain????

Web definition of Mana:

primitive, animistic conception of psychic energy. A developed person gives off this "mana" and has an unconscious, positive influence on other people. Also includes magic, spirits, demons.

I don't think this is exactly what it means ----

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Posted: Wednesday September 1st, 2004 15:47

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@ Abissinia

This question has been asked more than once and I found Kennedy's explanation for it which I will post here. Hopefully this will be of some assistance.

Mana's are like ratings, you click on someones mana if you want to rate them, maybe on their posting or contribution or what ever. It's is calculated on a number of reasoning, ie:

What is Mana?

The Black Forum uses an advanced iterative algorithm to determine the most respected users. A user "adds mana" to other users she/he respects, and the more mana she/he has, the more the increase in recipients' manas. A user can also change their mind, and remove mana from someone to whom they added mana before. However, the more members a member adds mana to, the less the effect of those mana additions.

For example, let's assume that your ]mana is 3 out of 4. If you want to add mana to someone then you basically add him/her 3 points divided by the number of members to whom you added mana before. If you added mana to one member before, the amount of mana you would add is 3/(1+1)=1.5 points. This is a dynamic process. Whenever someone adds or removes mana, the manas of all members are calculated from scratch.

Finally, mana takes the normal distribution rule into account, and it gets increasingly accurate as you get more members.

So basically it's a rating system but with a different topping up system

Last edited on Wednesday September 1st, 2004 15:50 by Sage

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Posted: Wednesday September 1st, 2004 15:59

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Thanks Ashanti - that clears things up

One more question, Is there anyway of telling if others have added to my mana? (If that is the correct term to use).

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Posted: Wednesday September 1st, 2004 16:16

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You are welcome.

I don't think there is way of telling. From the way I read (the rule on mana) if more than one person is giving you mana then it has less affect...meaning if they are giving respect to more than one person...then it gets calculated by how many times they have done that so if you had 3 out of 4...then it looks like 1 and a half.

Now my question is are you just as confused as I am after reading what I just wrote?, :shock: